DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA
Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator.

DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU.
FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.������ TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY.

ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY…
1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the “Learned Blacksmith,” born.
1859 — British opium-eater, romantic writer Thomas De Quincey dies.
1886 — Radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera born...