Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 8
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This is a list of selected December 8 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.December 8: Eid al-Adha begins (Islam, 2008); Constitution Day in Romania (1991); Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism
- 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX (pictured) proclaimed the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
- 1941 – World War II: Takashi Sakai and the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Hong Kong and quickly achieved air superiority by bombing Kai Tak Airport.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: The Chełmno extermination camp in Poland, the first Nazi extermination camp to use poison gas, began operations.
- 1980 – Mark David Chapman fatally shot former Beatle John Lennon outside the Dakota apartments in New York City, USA.
- 1991 – Leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine met to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- 2004 – Nathan Gale fatally shot former Pantera and at the time Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others at a Damageplan concert in Columbus, Ohio, USA
More events: December 7 – December 8 – December 9
