12-08-2004, 09:26 AM
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December 8th
1542 ~ Birthday of Mary Queen of Scots.
1864 ~ Death of George Boole, Mathematician.
1914 ~ Battle of the Falkland Islands fought.
1925 ~ Birthday of Sammy Davis Jr., Actor & Singer.
1939 ~ Birthday of James Galway, Irish flutist.
1949 ~ Chinese Civil War: The capital of the Republic of China was moved from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
1978 ~ Death of Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel.
1980 ~ Mark David Chapman kills former Beatle John Lennon.
1991 ~ Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine met and signed an agreement ending the U.S.S.R. and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus.
1993 ~ The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.
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