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BORN
| -65 | BC | BC - Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Horace, soldier, poet, d. 8 BC -- http://www.strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic242b.asp |
| -563 | BC | BC - Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, d. c. 483 BC |
| 1626 | | Queen Christina of Sweden (1632-1654), abdicated, d. 1689 |
| 1708 | | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1745-1765) |
| 1765 | | Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, interchangable parts, etc., d. 1825 |
| 1822 | | Luther Prentice Bradley, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1910 |
| 1828 | | Clinton Bowen Fisk, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890 |
| 1828 | | Robert Bullock, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1905 |
| 1865 | | Jean Sibelius, nationalist composer ("Finlandia"), d. 1957 |
| 1926 | | Joachim Fest, historian ("Hitler"), d. 2006 |
| 1542 | | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (legally from Dec 12, 1542, effective 1560-1567), deposed, d. 1687 |
DIED
| 1978 | | Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel (1969-1974), in Jerusalem at 80 |
| 1788 | | Pierre Andre de Suffren, le Bailli de Suffren, Knight of Malta, French admiral, at 59 |
| 899 | | Arnulf of Carinthia, c. 49, King of East Francia (887-899), disputed King of Italy (894-899), disputed Holy Roman Emperor (896-899) |
| 1793 | | Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry -- Madame du Barry, 50, sometime mistress to Louis XV, guillotined |
| 1914 | | Maximilian von Spee, 53, admiral, with two of his sons and c. 2,000 other German seamen -- http://www.strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic122b.asp |
EVENT
| 1776 | | Washington's army retreats across the Delaware from NJ to Penna |
| 1794 | | Second Great Fire of New Orleans: 212 buildings destroyed |
| 1863 | | Church fire in Santiago de Chile, 2,000 die |
| 1863 | | Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of the South |
| 1914 | | Battle of the Falkland Islands: British battlecruisers annihilate von Spee's German cruiser squadron |
| 1933 | | The US Navy forms the Fleet Marine Force |
| 1936 | | Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua, initiating 20 years of direct or indirect dictatorial rule |
| 1938 | | Lauvrenti Beria follows Nikolai Yezkhov as head of Russian secret police |
| 1941 | | Japanese troops land in Malaya [Int'l Date Line affects the first four Dec 8th entries, which actually occurred shortly before or after the attack on Pearl Harbor dated the 7th] |
| 1941 | | Japanese air raids on Clark & Iba airfields, Luzon |
| 1941 | | Japanese troops attack Hong Kong |
| 1941 | | Japanese troops invade Siam |
| 1941 | | Japanese aircraft from the Marshall Is. bomb Wake |
| 1941 | | Japanese troops land on Guam |
| 1941 | | Japanese troops occupy Shanghai, where USS Wake (PR-3) surrenders |
| 1941 | | "Force Z" (HMSs 'Prince of Wales' & 'Repulse') sails from Singapore |
| 1941 | | Aussie inf coy lands on western Timor, in the Netherlands East Indies |
| 1941 | | Britain declares war on Japan |
| 1941 | | British Eighth Army breaks the first Axis siege of Tobruk, after 242 days |
| 1941 | | FDR asks Congress for a declaration of war on Japan, which is done by virtually unanimous vote of both houses -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE |
| 1942 | | Papua: Japanese troops withdrawing from Gona sustain heavy losses |
| 1942 | | Papua: U.S. a/c defeat Japanese attempt to land troops at Buna |
| 1943 | | Japanese air raids on British airfields in Assam |
| 1943 | | New Guinea: Australian troops capture Wareo |
| 1943 | | U.S. fast battleship task force bombards Japanese positions on Nauru |
| 1944 | | Iwo Jima: U.S. bombers and carrier aircraft begin a 72 day pre-invasion bombardment |
| 1952 | | French troops fire on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
| 1966 | | US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
| 1982 | | Suriname army leader Desiré Delano Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
| 1830 | | U.S. Army Adjutant General Order No. 72 ends the daily ration of one gill of whiskey to enlisted men, substituting an issue of coffee and sugar. |
| 1944 | | Italian troops storm Monte Lungo, in the first action by the Italian Liberation Army against the Axis |
| 1907 | | Accession of King Gustaf V of Sweden (1907-1950) |
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