December 08

Wednesday 08, 2004:

2004 - Population of Victoria (Australia) reaches 5 million for the first time.

Tuesday 08, 1998:

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

Thursday 08, 1994:

US President Bill Clinton signs a bill enacting United States participation in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Wednesday 08, 1993:

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

Sunday 08, 1991:

First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.

Tuesday 08, 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.

Monday 08, 1980:

Mark David Chapman murders former Beatle John Lennon.

Wednesday 08, 1976:

The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Hotel California.

Monday 08, 1969:

An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm killing 93 people.

Sunday 08, 1968:

NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.

Thursday 08, 1949:

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

Monday 08, 1941:

Holocaust: First Nazi use of gas vans on Jews, at the Chelmno camp near Lodz.

Tuesday 08, 1914:

Battle of the Falkland Islands fought.

Sunday 08, 1907:

King Gustav V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

Saturday 08, 1888:

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

Wednesday 08, 1886:

American Federation of Labor founded.

Wednesday 08, 1869:

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

Friday 08, 1854:

Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.

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