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On December 8, 395: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.

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Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.

Yan, known in historiography as the Later Yan, was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Xianbei people during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms.

People

Born on December 8

Billie Starkz 2004– American professional wrestler (born 2004)
Momoe Mori 2004– Japanese entertainer
Sunghoon 2002– South Korean singer (born 2002)
Josh Christopher 2001– American basketball player (born 2001)
DeMario Douglas 2000– American football player (born 2000)
Bayron Matos 2000– Dominican-American football player (born 2000)
Andy Pages 2000– Cuban baseball player (born 2000)
Reece James 1999– English footballer (born 1999)
Tyrus Wheat 1999– American football player (born 1999)
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Josh Dunne 1998– American ice hockey player (born 1998)
Owen Teague 1998– American actor
Hakeem Adeniji 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Sam Hauser 1997– American basketball player (born 1997)
Scott McTominay 1996– Scotland international footballer (born 1996)
Thatcher Demko 1995– American ice hockey player (born 1995)
Cyriel Dessers 1994– Nigerian footballer (born 1994)
Conseslus Kipruto 1994– Kenyan middle-distance runner
Raheem Sterling 1994– English footballer (born 1994)

People

Died on December 8

Jill Jacobson American actress (1954–2024)
Clarke Reed American businessman and politician (1928–2024)
Ryan O'Neal American actor (1941–2023)
Robbie Shakespeare Jamaican bass guitarist (1953–2021)
René Auberjonois American actor (1940–2019)
Juice Wrld American rapper (1998–2019)
Caroll Spinney American puppeteer (1933–2019)
David Weatherall British biomedical researcher (1933–2018)
John Glenn American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)
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Mattiwilda Dobbs American opera singer (1925–2015)
Alan Hodgkinson English footballer and coach
Douglas Tompkins Chilean-American businessman and environmentalist (1943–2015)
John Trudell Native American activist, author, and poet (1946–2015)
Elsie Tu Hong Kong activist and politician (1913–2015)
Tom Gosnell Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1951)
Russ Kemmerer American baseball player (1930–2014)
Knut Nystedt Norwegian composer (1915–2014)
John Cornforth Australian-British chemist (1917–2013)

Timeline

Every December 8 on record

  1. 395 Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.

    Dynastic state in Northeast China (384-409 CE)

    Yan, known in historiography as the Later Yan, was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Xianbei people during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms.

  2. 757 The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.

    Calendar year

    Year 757 (DCCLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 757 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  3. 877 Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.

    King of West Francia from 877 to 879

    Louis the Stammerer was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. Louis the Stammerer was physically weak and outlived his father by a year and a half.

  4. 1504 Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.

    Maliki scholar of Islamic law (d. 1511)

    Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah al-Maghrawi al-Wahrani was a Maghrebi Maliki scholar of Islamic law, active in North Africa from the end of the fifteenth century until his death. He was identified as the author of the 1504 fatwa commonly named the Oran fatwa, instructing the Muslims in Spain about how to secretly practice Islam, and granting comprehensive dispensations for them to publicly conform to Christianity and performing acts normally forbidden in Islam when necessary to survive. Because of his authorship of the fatwa he is often referred to as "the Mufti of Oran", although he likely issued the fatwa in Fez, not in Oran and he did not have any official capacity in either city.

  5. 1660 A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

    British actress (1630–1720)

    Margaret Hughes, also Peg Hughes or Margaret Hewes, was an English actress who is often credited as the first professional actress on the English stage, as a result of her appearance on 8 December 1660. Hughes was the mistress of the Royalist English Civil War general Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

  6. 1851 Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
  7. 1854 In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
  8. 1863 Between two and three thousand churchgoers die in the Church of the Company Fire, possibly the largest single building fire by number of victims in modern history.
  9. 1864 Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
  10. 1907 King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
  11. 1912 Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
  12. 1914 World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
  13. 1922 Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army: Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor.
  14. 1933 Anarchist insurrection breaks out in Zaragoza, Spain.
  15. 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
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  1. 1941 World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
  2. 1943 World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.
  3. 1953 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
  4. 1955 The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
  5. 1962 Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
  6. 1963 Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
  7. 1966 The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
  8. 1969 Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
  9. 1971 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
  10. 1972 United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
  11. 1974 A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
  12. 1980 John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
  13. 1985 The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia, is established.
  14. 1987 Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
  15. 1987 An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.

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