December 8 in History

8 December in History – 70 years ago

East Asia 1949: Nationalist Taiwan

With the Communists victorious across China, about 2 million Nationalist Chinese fled to the... SEE MORE…

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East Asia 1949

Nationalist Taiwan

With the Communists victorious across China, about 2 million Nationalist Chinese fled to the...

Australasia 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor

The rise of Japanese power had worried Australia and New Zealand since before the Great War, a...

on 8 December 1941

Japanese land at Khota Baru, Malaya

All Events on 8 December

1991

Russia, Ukraine & Belarus agree to dissolve Soviet Union

ends 1976

Syria intervenes in Lebanese Civil War

1949

Chinese Nationalist government moves to Taiwan

starts 1941

Japanese capture Guam

1941

Japan invades Thailand

1941

Japan lands troops on Batan Island, Philippines

1941

Japanese land at Khota Baru, Malaya

1914

British destroy German squadron near Falkland Is.

starts 1861

Tripartite fleets reach Mexico

1816

Naples and Sicily united as Two Sicilies

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