December 8
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December 8 in Clemson History
- 1899: After John Heisman accepts the coaching position for the 1900 football season, there is doubt about the salary the Clemson Athletic Association can afford, and a document dated December 8 is circulated soliciting contributions from faculty and staff to guarantee him something. Pledges of $415.11 are secured.
- 1939: Clemson's 1939 Football Team accepts its first postseason bowl bid to appear in the Cotton Bowl on New Years Day, 1940.
- 1941: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issues a proclamation of war to the United States Congress.
- 1977: Dr. Piotr Tomasik, Vice-President for Science, at Pedagogriocal University, at Czestochowa, Poland, speaks in Brackett Hall, room 30, at 7:30 p.m. on "Chemical Education Behind The Iron Curtain". The speech is sponsored by the American Chemical Society Student Affiliates.
- 1979: Pickens County authorities conclude two days of arrests of some eight or ten students on drug charges culminating an investigation that began in mid-year.
- 1980: Exams begin. Former Beatle John Ono Lennon is assassinated in New York City in front of his apartment building, The Dakota, by a deranged "fan". He was forty.
- 2006: The Athletic Department announces this date that all 11,500 Clemson tickets to the Music City Bowl are sold. Further, all tickets for Kentucky and the bowl office are sold, as well. The "Tiger-Am" golf event held at the Thornblade Club, Greer, South Carolina - registration/warm-up at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. shotgun start. For information go to www.tigergolfgathering.com.
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