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08 December, 2005
Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
08 December, 2004
The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
08 December, 2002
The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
08 December, 1998
Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
08 December, 1993
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.
08 December, 1991
The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
08 December, 1991
The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
08 December, 1987
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
08 December, 1987
The Queen Street Massacre: Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself.
08 December, 1987
Alianza Lima air disaster
08 December, 1982
Activist Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
08 December, 1982
In Suriname several opponents of the military government are killed.
08 December, 1980
Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon in front of The Dakota apartment building with five bullets, murdering him.
08 December, 1974
A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
08 December, 1972
United Airlines Flight 533 crashes near Chicago Midway Airport, killing 45 people.
08 December, 1969
An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 crashes in Keratea during a storm, killing 93 people.
08 December, 1966
The Greek SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
08 December, 1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
08 December, 1949
Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
08 December, 1942
Holocaust: in Ternopil, Ukraine, German SS organise the last deportation of Ternopil Jews to death camp in Belzec, when 1,400 Jews were sent there. The chief of the Gestapo, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Müller, bore overall responsibility for the mass murder of the Jews of Ternopil and Berezhany county.
08 December, 1941
World War II: The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
08 December, 1941
World War II: Pacific War - After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress pass a declaration of war against Japan.
08 December, 1941
World War II: Pacific War - the Republic of China officially declares war against Japan.
08 December, 1941
World War II: Pacific War - The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910.
08 December, 1941
World War II: First Japanese attack on Wake Island.
08 December, 1941
Holocaust: Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Lódz in Poland.
08 December, 1940
The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game. This is the most lopsided game in NFL history.
08 December, 1935
The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sects operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
08 December, 1914
World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands - The Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee is engaged by the Royal Navy.
08 December, 1912
First Balkan War: The Greek army captures Korçë that had been under Ottoman rule.
08 December, 1907
King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
08 December, 1904
Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) in Denmark is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen. Still existing today, it is the oldest youth political organisation in Denmark and believed to be one of the oldest remaining in the world.
08 December, 1886
The American Federation of Labor is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
08 December, 1869
Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
08 December, 1864
The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon was officially opened.
08 December, 1854
Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
08 December, 1659
Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
08 December, 1608
Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.

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