Monday, December 7, 2009

DECEMBER 8

1854 - The dogma of Immaculate Conception is proclaimed by Pope Pius IX, making Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, as free of Original Sin.

1949 - Communist guerilla army under Mao Zedong forces the retreat of the Kuomintang forces of the Chinese government to Formosa island (Taiwan).

1980 - John Lennon, one of of the former members of the sensational Beatles band, is shot dead by a supposedly deranged fan, Mark David Chapman.

1987 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first historic agreement reducing the nuclear arsenals of the Cold War superpowers.

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