Wednesday, December 08, 2021

History for December 8

History for December 8 - On-This-Day.com
Horace 65 B.C.
  • 1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived.
  • 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
  • 1941 - The United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.
  • 1949 - The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa due to Communists pressure.
  • 1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the (NAFTA) North American Free Trade Agreement.
  • 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police could not search a person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic violation.

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