December 8th, 2009

Today in History

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

1980:
Mark David Chapman murders former Beatle John Lennon.

1941:
Holocaust: First Nazi use of gas vans on Jews, at the Chelmno camp near Lodz.

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.