December 8th facts
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The Roman calendar used to have ten months and that the word October means "8th month", November means "9th month", and December means "10th month."
The months September-December are named for their former numerical positions in the Roman Calender. Sept (7th), Oct (8th), Nov (9th), Dec (10th).
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September, October, November, and December were the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months (as the prefixes suggest), before the Romans added January and February to the beginning of the year, putting things out of order.
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In North Korea people don't celebrate their birthdays if they fall on July 8th or December 17th as those are the anniversaries of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il's deaths.
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September, October, November and December were named as such because they were the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months of the Roman calendar respectively.
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December 8th is "Pretend to be a Time Traveler day"
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After John Lennon was murdered on December 8th, 1980, Yoko Ono requested people stop for ten minutes to remember the life of John Lennon. On the day of John Lennon's memorial, every radio station in New York went silent for ten solid minutes, as did millions of people around the world.
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On December 8th, 1994, Howard Stern talked down a suicide jumper in NYC, who called into his show. (Full call with video PLUS Police press conference afterwards, with a heroic speech at 55:20)
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The months SEPTember, OCTober, NOVember, and DECember used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months until Julius Ceaser and Augustus came into power and added the months July and August.
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September, October, November, and December used to be the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months of the year, as their prefixes would logically suggest.
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The original roman calendar had 10 months. Months like October and December (Oct for 8, and Dec for 10) were the 8th and 10th months. January and February were added later on, during the reign of Numa Pompilius.
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In 1941, the St. Louis Browns (known today as the Baltimore Orioles) had tentative approval to move to Los Angeles, with a final approval meeting occurring on December 8th. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7th, and citing concerns with stringent travel conditions, the proposal was rejected.
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September, October, November, and December were once the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months
