This Day In History

December 8th

1941 US President Roosevelt gets congress to declare war against Japan the day after they bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and thus entering World War II.
1953  Los Angeles, California becomes the 3rd largest city in the United States.
1962  The International Typographical Union Strike closed 9 New York City newspapers.
1963  Frank Sinatra Jr. idnapped in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and released 4 days later.
1980  Musician/Actor/Writer John Lennon assasinated by an insane gunman outside his home in Manhattan.
1982  The FCC gave approval for WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York to be moved to Secaucus, New Jersey, giving Jersey its first VHF television station.

1765  Inventor of the Cotton Gin Eli Whitney
1894  Writer James Thurber
1925  Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
1930  Entertainer Flip (Clerow) Wilson
1937  Actor James MacArthur
1943  Musician Jim Morrison
1947  Musician Gregg Allman
1953  Actress Kim Basinger

1962

• Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons

• Don't Hang Up - The Orlons

• Ride! - Dee Dee Sharp

• I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow

1970

• I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family

• Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland

• One Less Bell to Answer - The 5th Dimension

• Endlessly - Sonny James

1978

• You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond

• Le Freak - Chic

• I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli

• I Just Want to Love You - Eddie Rabbitt

1986

• The Next Time I Fall - Peter Cetera with Amy Grant

• Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and The News

• The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and The Range

• It Ain't Cool to be Crazy about You - George Strait

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