Incubator escapee wiki:Selected anniversaries/December 8

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• Portrait of Margaret Hughes by Peter Lely, 1672.jpg

  Portrait of Margaret Hughes by Peter Lely, 1672

• Pius ix.jpg

  Pope Pius IX

• Biblioteca Ambrosiana 2010.jpg

  Biblioteca Ambrosiana

• British soldier looking at gravestones from the desecrated Jewish cemetery of Salonica.jpg

  British officer looking at gravestones from the desecrated Jewish cemetery used to construct German defences, 1944

• John Lennon portrait.jpg

  John Lennon

• IKAROS IAC 2010.jpg

  Model of the IKAROS spacecraft

• JOHN MICHEL CELLO-BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY 7 Allegretto.ogg

  Second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7

• IKAROS IAC 2010.jpg

  Model of IKAROS

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Constitution Day in Romania (1991)	refimprove section
395 – The Chinese state of Later Yan was defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.	refimprove section
1609 – Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe.	refimprove section
1813 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 premiered in Vienna, conducted by the composer himself.	Too much uncited
1912 – Leaders of the German Empire held an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.	unreferenced section
1941 – World War II: Concurrent to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.	HK: refimprove section; Philippines: unreferenced section
1942 – The Holocaust in Greece: German occupiers began the destruction of the Jewish cemetery of Salonica, using the headstones as building materials around the city.	Date not mentioned in the article
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: Following their successful attack three days earlier, a small Indian Navy strike force again attacked the Port of Karachi, creating a de facto blockade.	primary sources
1988 – In Chng Suan Tze, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that preventive detention was subject to judicial review, prompting the government to amend the constitution and legislation to avoid judicial review.	Too much uncited
1993 – Leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States signed the final agreements of the North American Free Trade Agreement, forming a regional trade bloc.	outdated, expansion
2004 – Twelve South American countries signed the Cusco Declaration, announcing the foundation of what is now the Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental union modelled after the European Union.	outdated, refimprove section
Yuliya Krevsun |b|1980|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1660 – Margaret Hughes appeared professionally on the English stage; she is thought to have been the first woman to do so.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British commander-in-chief Sir William Howe withdrew his troops from the Battle of White Marsh to Philadelphia.
• 1880 – At an assembly of 10,000 Boers, Paul Kruger announced the fulfilment of the decision to restore the government and volksraad of the South African Republic.
• 1941 – The Holocaust: The Chełmno extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill Jews, began operations.
• 1963 – After being struck by lightning while in a holding pattern, Pan Am Flight 214 crashed near Elkton, Maryland, U.S., killing all 81 people on board.
• 1972 – During an aborted landing and go-around while approaching Chicago's Midway International Airport, [[United Airlines Flight 553|United Airlines Template:Nowrap]] crashed into a residential neighborhood, destroying five houses and killing forty-five people.
• 1987 – A man shot and killed eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
• 1987 – Arab–Israeli conflict: An Israeli army tank transporter killed four Palestinian refugees and injured seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
• 1991 – Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian leaders signed the Belovezh Accords, agreeing to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.
• 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq killed at least 127 people and injured at least 448 others.
• 2010 – The Japanese experimental spacecraft IKAROS (model pictured) flew by Venus at a distance of 80,800 km (50,200 mi), completing its planned mission to demonstrate solar-sail technology.
• 2013 – After a fatal car accident in the Little India region of Singapore, angry mobs of passers-by attacked the bus involved and emergency vehicles, the first riot in the country in over 40 years.
• Born/died this day: | Antonio de Benavides |b|1678|Maria Josepha of Austria |b|1699|Adolph Menzel |b|1815| Father Mathew |d|1856| Georges Méliès |b|1861| Georges Feydeau |b|1862| George Boole |d|1864| Peig Sayers |d|1958| Nicki Minaj |b|1982| Ann T. Bowling |d|2000| Betty Holberton |d|2001| Robert Austin Markus |d|2010| Bill Menefee |d|2016

Notes

• Operation Trident (1971) appears on December 4, so Operation Python should not appear in the same year
• Akatsuki appears on December 7, so IKAROS should not appear in the same year

December 8: Template:^ Rōhatsu in Japan; Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Day in Ethiopia

• 1504 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah wrote his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law for forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.
• 1854 – Pope Pius IX promulgated the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, proclaiming the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin.
• 1980 – English musician John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota, where he resided in New York City.
• 1998 – The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers was revealed.
• 2013 – Metallica (pictured) played a concert in Antarctica, becoming the first band to perform on all seven continents.