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December 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Romania) Constitution Day (Uzbekistan) Day of Finnish Music ; Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day can fall, while December 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in December.
December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Rite Catholicism); Rōhatsu in Japan Pope Pius IX 1660 – Margaret Hughes appeared professionally on the English stage; she is thought to have been the first woman to do so.
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December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Rite Catholicism); Rōhatsu in Japan John Lennon 1432 – The first battle of the Lithuanian Civil War , between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis , was fought near Ashmyany .
The Xá Lợi Pagoda raids were a series of synchronized attacks on Buddhist pagodas in the major cities of South Vietnam on August 21, 1963. The raids were executed by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces and combat police, both of which took their orders directly from Ngo Dinh Nhu, the younger brother of the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Phan Khôi (October 06, 1887 – January 16, 1959) was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (Encyclopedia of Vietnam), a state-sponsored encyclopedia which was published in 2005. Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Vietnam War encyclopedias. Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics.
Campaign Z (17 December 1971 – 30 January 1972) was a military offensive by the People's Army of Vietnam; it was a combined arms thrust designed to defeat the last Royal Lao Army troops defending the Kingdom of Laos.