December 8

8Dec2009 In : On this day
Author : FJ

December 8: Constitution Day in Romania (1991); Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism

1609 – Milan‘s Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe.
1941 – The Holocaust: The Chelmno extermination camp in Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill the Jews of the Ghetto Litzmannstadt and the Warthegau by poison gas, began operating.
1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon (pictured) was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the Dakota apartments in New York City.
1991 – Leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed the Belavezha Accords, agreeing to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.
2004 – Twelve South American countries signed the Cusco Declaration, announcing the foundation of what is now the Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental union modelled after the European Union.

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December 29

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