December 8th, 2009

Today in History

1998:
81 people killed by armed groups in the Tadjena massacre in Algeria.

1987:
1987 - Gunman Frank Vitovic shoots nine people dead and wounds five others at the Australia Post Building, Queen Street, Melbourne. Vitovic then kills himself by plunging five stories to his death.

1949:
Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China is moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.

1888:
Bulgaria's National Assembly adopts an Act on establishing a higher school in Sofia.

1869:
Timothy Eaton founds the T. Eaton Co., in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which would later become the Eaton's department store chain.