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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.

1980:
Mark David Chapman murders former Beatle John Lennon.

1976:
The Eagles release one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Hotel California.

1969:
An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm killing 93 people.

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