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. Date: December 8, 2010 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 2010 📅 On This Day…
Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents. Date: December 8, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India. Date: December 8, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day (Today)
First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China. Date: December 8, 2019 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 2019 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: December 8, 2024 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day…
Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy. Date: December 7, 1904 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on this day in…
World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. Date: December 7, 1917 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on this day in 1917 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland. Date: December 7, 1922 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on this day in 1922 📅 On This Day (Today)
W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show. Date: December 7, 1930 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on…
German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. Date: December 7, 1932 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 7 📅 Events on this day in 1932 📅 On This Day (Today)