On This Day:
Monday December 8, 2014 This is the 342nd day of the year, with 23 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Persia, Iran Westerners started calling this land Persia in the 6th century PC, taking the name from Persis (or Parsa or Pars; modern Fars), a region in southern Iran. The people of the country had always called it "Land of the Aryans". In 1935, the country's government officially declared the country's name be Iran, reflecting what the natives always called it.
Holidays Feast day of the Immaculate Conception, St. Romaric, St. Eucharius, St. Sophronius of Cyprus, and St. Patapius.
Events 1776 - George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.
1854 - Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be an article of faith.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
1879 - Louisiana ratified a new state constitution and moved the capital from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
1886 - The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1940 - During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe (German air force) launched a massive attack on London.
1941 - The United States entered World War II as Congress declared war on Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Britain and Australia also declared war on Japan.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
1991 - The leaders of Russia, Byelorussia, and the Ukraine signed an agreement forming a Commonwealth of Independent States to replace the USSR; the decision was denounced by President Mikhail Gorbachev as unconstitutional.
1993 - President Bill Clinton signed into U.S. law the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1995 - The Grateful Dead announced it was breaking up after 30 years, just four months after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
Births 65 B.C.E. - Horace, Roman poet.
1542 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
1765 - Eli Whitney, American inventor of cotton gin and uniformity method of musket manufacturing.
1894 - James Thurber, American writer.
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr., American entertainer, singer, actor.
1930 - Flip Wilson, American comedian.
1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer, member of the group The Doors.
Deaths 1978 - Golda Meir, Israeli politician and 4th prime minister of Israel.
1980 - John Lennon, British rock star, member of the Beatles, shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by a deranged fan.
1982 - Marty Robbins, country-western Hall of Fame musician.
1983 - Louis Bert Lindley, Jr., better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, a cowboy and actor.
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