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Historical Events on December 8

395
Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
757
Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
877
Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.
1432
The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1660
A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1813
Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
1854
In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
1864
Pope Pius IX promulgates the encylical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
1907
King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1912
Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
1914
World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1922
Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.
1927
The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
1941
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1941
World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
1953
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1955
The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
1962
Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963
Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1966
The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1969
Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
1971
Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
1972
United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
1974
A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
1980
Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.
1985
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established.
1987
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
1987
An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel-Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
1988
A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
1991
The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1998
Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2004
The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
2009
Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
2010
With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2010
The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
2013
Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.
2016
Syrian army starts final phase of the attack and progress has been made in the district of, "Sheikh Said" and preparing to storm the neighborhood "Sukkari" in East of Aleppo.

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