SomeFacts | December 8

On this day - December 8

395 — Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the ...

757 — The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor ...

877 — Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king ...

1504 — Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for ...

1660 — A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on ...

1851 — Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at ...

1854 — In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX ...

1863 — Between two and three thousand churchgoers die in the Church ...

1864 — Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its ...

1907 — King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

1912 — Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to ...

1914 — World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats ...

1922 — Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State ...

1933 — Anarchist insurrection breaks out in Zaragoza, Spain.

1941 — World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai ...

1941 — World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares ...

1943 — World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the ...

1953 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms ...

1955 — The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.

1962 — Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases ...

1963 — Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and ...

1966 — The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean ...

1969 — Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of ...

1971 — Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West ...

1972 — United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after ...

1974 — A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.

1980 — John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The ...

1985 — The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the ...

1987 — An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian ...

1987 — Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is ...

1988 — A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an ...

1991 — The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement ...

1998 — Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

2001 — A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of ...

2004 — Columbus nightclub shooting: Nathan Gale opens fire at the ...

2004 — The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing ...

2009 — Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 people and injure 448 ...

2010 — The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet ...

2010 — With the second launch of the Falcon 9, and the first launch ...

2013 — Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first ...

2013 — Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little ...

2019 — First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.

2024 — Damascus falls to rebels after Syrian troops withdraw and ...