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December 8

1731: Composer Frantisek Xaver Dusek was born.

1865: Composer Jean (Johan) Julius Christian Sibelius was born.

1890: Composer Bohuslav Martinu was born.

1960: Fabian visited Elvis Presley at Graceland and lent him his pants when Elvis ripped his demonstrating karate.

1963: Frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped.

1968: Graham Nash announced the formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash three days after he quit the Hollies.

1972: Frank Zappa Sr. placed an advertisement in Variety Magazine claiming he will give private instruction in craps, roulette, keno and blackjack.

1982: Marty Robbins died of heart failure at the age of 57.

1991: Jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton died of natural causes at the age of 80.

1995: The surviving members of the Grateful Dead announced they were disbanding. Jerry Garcia’s, the founder of the group, had died the previous August.

1998: It was announced that Bruce Springsteen would tour again with the E Street Band for the first time in nearly a decade.

1999: James Brown made his new MP3-only holiday album “James Brown Christmas For The Millennium & Forever” available exclusively through EMusic.com.

2002: Baz Luhrmann’s “La Boheme” opened on Broadway.

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