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December 8, 2025
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
- Molly Ivins
1 Doppelgängers Today
Why are public figures always born within a few days of another public figure who looks just like them? Why does our storyline require two of each?
Born in 1989
Born on September 08, 1989 (1989 - 2018) Avicii |
Born on December 13, 1989 Taylor Alison SwiftAmerican singer-songwriter |
10 Birthdays Today
Charles Henry Allan Bennett (1872 — 1923)
Second Englishman to be ordained as a Buddhist monk
Diego Rivera born on December 8, 1886.
Prominent Mexican painter
Diego Rivera's full name, "Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez," is quite long and includes several given names and surnames. Let's break it down: Diego: Diego is a Spanish given name
Ann Coulter born on December 8, 1963.
American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist and media pundit
John Brown (1826 — 1883)
Scottish personal attendant and favourite of Queen Victoria for many years after working as a gillie for Prince Albert.
Flip Wilson (1933 — 1998)
Second highest-rated show on network television for a time.
Mary, Queen of Scots born on December 8, 1542.
Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567
Jim Morrison (1943 — 1971)
American singer-songwriter and poet who lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band the Doors
14 Events
On This Day
New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
It happened on December 8, 1793
Featuring: Noah Webster.
Syllabus errorum: Pope Pius IX condemns theological liberalism as an error, and claims the supremacy of Roman Catholic Church authority over civil society. He also condemns rationalism and socialism.
It happened on December 8, 1864
Featuring: Pope Pius IX.
The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is opened
It happened on December 8, 1602
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, with a collection that spans more than 11 million printed items, including books, manuscripts, and maps. The library is named after
Featuring: Thomas Bodley.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, together with his Wellington's Victory, are premiered in Vienna under the composer's baton, in a benefit concert for Austrian and Bavarian soldiers wounded at the Battle of Hanau.
It happened on December 8, 1813
Featuring: Ludwig van Beethoven.
Pope Pius IX in the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus defines ex Cathedra the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin
It happened on December 8, 1854
Featuring: Pope Pius IX.
John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
It happened on December 8, 1915
Featuring: John McCrae.
Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC
It happened on December 8, 1914
Featuring: Irving Berlin.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on US Supreme Court
It happened on December 8, 1902
Featuring: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..
1st production of Dion Boucicault's play "Poor of New York"
It happened on December 8, 1857
Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan opens its reading room, second public library in Europe
It happened on December 8, 1609
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents scoured
George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
It happened on December 8, 1776
US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
It happened on December 8, 1966
Featuring: Lyndon B. Johnson, Leonid Brezhnev.
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When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People did not think that women had a history worth knowing.
- Gerda Lerner