WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. DECEMBER
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Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi. (8. December 1971)

United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. The crash is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737. (8. December 1972)

A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece. (8. December 1974)

John Lennon is murdered by a deranged fan in front of The Dakota in New York City. (8. December 1980)

In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed. (8. December 1982)

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed. (8. December 1987)

Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death. (8. December 1987)

The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs. (8. December 1987)

An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada. (8. December 1987)

A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others. (8. December 1988)

The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. (8. December 1991)

The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum. (8. December 1991)

Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. (8. December 1998)

The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. (8. December 2004)

Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed. (8. December 2007)

Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 and injure 448. (8. December 2009)

With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. (8. December 2010)

The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km. (8. December 2010)