December 8 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Choir Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan – Constitution Day.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Students’ Day.
🇷🇴 Romania – Constitution Day.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia – Day of Nations and Peoples.
🇫🇮 Finland – Finnish Music Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Charity Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Artists’ Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Radio and Television Workers’ Day.
🇲🇵 Northern Mariana Islands – Constitution Day.
🇫🇰 Falkland Islands – Falklands Battle Day.
🇵🇦 Panama – Mother’s Day.
🇦🇱 Albania – Youth Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1792 – The first cremation of a body took place in the USA.
– 1832 – The Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces is established.
– 1861 – Alexander Cuza proclaims the formation of Romania.
– 1864 – The Clifton Bridge near Bristol is put into operation.
– 1914 – The Falklands War.
– 1941 – Japan invades Thailand.
– 1955 – The official flag of the Council of Europe is adopted, later adopted by the European Union.
– 1966 – The ferry “Heraklion” sinks in the Aegean Sea, 217 people die.
– 1972 – A Boeing 737 crashes in Chicago. 45 people die – this was the first crash of a Boeing 737.
– 1980 – John Lennon from the legendary Beatles was assassinated.
– 1987 – An agreement was signed in Washington between the USSR and the USA on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles.
– 1991 – An agreement was signed in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha on the dissolution of the USSR and the creation of the CIS.
– 1991 – The Republic of Uzbekistan joined the Commonwealth of Independent States.
– 1992 – A decree of the President of Russia was issued on the establishment of the Federal Treasury.
– 1992 – The Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan was adopted.
– 1999 – The Treaty on the Union of Belarus and Russia was signed.
– 2003 – The Council of South American Nations was established.
– 2006 – The Russian military contingent was withdrawn from Lebanon.
– 2013 – During the Euromaidan, a group of Svoboda party activists tore down a statue of Lenin in Kiev.
