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Today is Saturday, December 8, the 342nd day of 2018. There are 23 days left in the year.
1777 — Captain Cook leaves Society Islands
1813 — Ludwig von Beethoven's seventh symphony in A major premieres
1846 — Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres
1863 — President Abraham Lincoln announces plan for reconstruction of the south
1863 — Jesuit Church of La Compana in Santiago, Chile, catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
1869 — 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1913 — Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
1914 — British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island
