[Loch-ruadh] Today in History Dec. 8

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Enlightenment of the Buddha celebrated in Japan.
65BC Birth of Horace, Roman poet.
877 Coronation of Louis II "the Stammerer" ( France).
1487 Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz lands at Walvis Bay, Namibia.
1545 Birth of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
1597 The French Ambassador, Andre Hurault, is granted an audience with
Elizabeth I ( England).