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December 3
- The 68' comeback special marks the concert return
of Elvis Presley.
December 9 - Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his
pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco.
December 10 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300
million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo
December 11 - The film Oliver!, based on the hit London
and Broadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first
in England. It will go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was also filmed on this
date, but was not released until 1996.
December 13 - Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees
the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), which lasts until 1978
and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military
dictatorship.
December 20 - Zodiac Killer is believed to have shot Betty Lou
Jensen and David Faraday on Lake Herman Road
December 22 - David Eisenhower marries Julie Nixon, the daughter
of U.S. President-elect Richard Nixon
December 22 - Mao Zedong advocates educated youth in urban China
to be re-educated in the country. It marks the start of the "Up to
the mountains and down to the villages" movement.
December 24 - Apollo Program: U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8
enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell
and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of
the Moon and planet Earth as a whole. The crew also reads from
Genesis.
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