8 December
Notable Births
Billie Starkz
b. 2004
American professional wrestler
Sunghoon (singer, born 2002)
b. 2002
South Korean singer (born 2002)
Josh Christopher
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
DeMario Douglas
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
Andy Pages
b. 2000
Cuban baseball player (born 2000)
Reece James
b. 1999
English footballer (born 1999)
Josh Dunne
b. 1998
American ice hockey player (born 1998)
Owen Teague
b. 1998
American actor
Sam Hauser
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Scott McTominay
b. 1996
Scotland international footballer (born 1996)
Thatcher Demko
b. 1995
American ice hockey player (born 1995)
Cyriel Dessers
b. 1994
Nigerian footballer (born 1994)
Conseslus Kipruto
b. 1994
Kenyan middle-distance runner
Raheem Sterling
b. 1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Cara Mund
b. 1993
American beauty pageant winner (born 1993)
AnnaSophia Robb
b. 1993
American actress, model, and singer (born 1993)
Mattias Janmark
b. 1992
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Yui Yokoyama
b. 1992
Japanese singer, actress, and YouTuber
Philip Holm
b. 1991
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1991)
Albert Gleizes
b. 1881
French painter (1881–1953)
Notable Deaths
Jill Jacobson
d. 2024
American actress (1954–2024)
Clarke Reed
d. 2024
American businessman and politician (1928–2024)
Ryan O'Neal
d. 2023
American actor (1941–2023)
Robbie Shakespeare
d. 2021
Jamaican bass guitarist (1953–2021)
René Auberjonois
d. 2019
American actor (1940–2019)
Juice Wrld
d. 2019
American rapper (1998–2019)
Caroll Spinney
d. 2019
American puppeteer (1933–2019)
David Weatherall
d. 2018
British physician and researcher (1933–2018)
John Glenn
d. 2016
American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)
Mattiwilda Dobbs
d. 2015
American opera singer (1925–2015)
Alan Hodgkinson
d. 2015
English footballer and coach
Douglas Tompkins
d. 2015
Chilean-American businessman and environmentalist (1943–2015)
John Trudell
d. 2015
Native American activist, author, and poet (1946–2015)
Elsie Tu
d. 2015
Hong Kong activist and politician (1913–2015)
Russ Kemmerer
d. 2014
American baseball player (1930–2014)
Knut Nystedt
d. 2014
Norwegian composer (1915–2014)
John Cornforth
d. 2013
Australian-British chemist (1917–2013)
Sándor Szokolay
d. 2013
Hungarian composer and professor
Richard S. Williamson
d. 2013
American diplomat
Jerry Brown (gridiron football)
d. 2012
American gridiron football player (1987–2012)
On This Day in History
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2024
Damascus falls to rebels after Syrian troops withdraw and president Bashar al-Assad leaves the country as his government collapses. Israel as a result invaded into the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Fall of Damascus (2024)
2019
First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.
COVID-19
2013
Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.
2013 Little India riot
2013
Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.
Metallica
2010
With the second launch of the Falcon 9, and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1
2010
The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km (50,200 mi).
Solar sail
2009
Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
December 2009 Baghdad bombings
2004
The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
Cusco Declaration
2004
Columbus nightclub shooting: Nathan Gale opens fire at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, killing former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others before being shot dead by a police officer.
Columbus nightclub shooting
2001
A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of Singapore foils a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) plot to bomb foreign embassies in Singapore.
Internal Security Department (Singapore)
1998
Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
Tadjena massacre
1991
The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Belarus
1988
A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing five people and injuring 50 others.
United States Air Force
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.
Cold War
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.
Palestinian refugees
1985
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia, is established.
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
1980
John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
John Lennon
1974
A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
1974 Greek republic referendum
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.
United Air Lines Flight 553
1971
Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
India–Pakistan war of 1971