Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 8

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 * 1660 – Margaret Hughes appeared professionally on the English stage; she is thought to have been the first woman to do so.
 * 1854 – Pope Pius IX (pictured) 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.
 * 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.
 * 1972 – During an aborted landing and go-around while approaching Chicago's Midway International Airport, United Airlines Flight 553 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.
 * 1998 – The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers was revealed.
 * 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.
 * 2023 – FDA approval of exagamglogene autotemcel, the first CRISPR gene editing therapy to be approved.
 * Born/died this day: | John Peckham |d|1292| John Pym |d|1643| Antonio de Benavides |b|1678|Maria Josepha of Austria |b|1699| Georges Méliès |b|1861| Georges Feydeau |b|1862| George Boole |d|1864| Jean Sibelius |b|1865| John Banville |b|1945| Peig Sayers |d|1958| Betty Holberton |d|2001