Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 8th!
| 1863 | Union General William Averell’s cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia.  |
| 1863 | President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South. |
| 1886 | The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 1914 | The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. |
| 1920 | President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva.  |
| 1932 | Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China. |
| 1941 | Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore. |
| 1943 | U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands. |
| 1944 | The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. |
| 1948 | The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea. |
| 1967 | In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed.  |
| 1968 | South Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks. |
| 1980 | John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building.  |
| 1982 | The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument. |
| 1987 | Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories began an intefadeh, or uprising. |
| 1987 | President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. |
| 1991 | Russia, Belarus and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government dead, forming a new Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| 1991 | Kimberly Bergalis, who had contracted AIDS from her dentist, died in Florida at age 23. |
| 1992 | Americans saw live TV coverage of U.S. troops landing on the beaches of Somalia as Operation Restore Hope began. |
| 1993 | President Bill Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.  |
| 1995 | The Grateful Dead announced they were breaking up after 30 years of making music. The news came four months after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia. |
| 2008 | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal he would confess to masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks; four other men also abandoned their defenses. |
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