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December 8: Constitution Day in Romania.
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception.
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 concentration 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.
1991 - Leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine met to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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