December 8
edit1963: Pan Am Flight 214 was struck by lightning while in a holding pattern waiting to land in Philadelphia. The plane crashed near Elkton, Maryland, killing everyone aboard.
1972: PAGASA, the weather forecasting organization of the Philippines, was created after the abolishment of the old Weather Bureau.
2005: Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 slid off a runway at Midway International Airport while landing in a snowstorm, crashing into automobile traffic and killing a six-year-old boy.
2007: The first in a series of winter storms began to affect portions of central and eastern North America. Over the next ten days 64 people would be killed as a result of the storms.
2011: A severe windstorm produced gusts of up to 165 miles per hour (270 km/h) in the British Isles.