MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · December 8
THE DAY IN HISTORY · DECEMBER 8
December 8 in history
1914 — The Falklands
8 Dec 1914 — Von Spee’s cruiser squadron, having destroyed a British force at Coronel, is caught coaling by battlecruisers and annihilated. The oceans belong to the Allies; Germany’s surface war outside the North Sea is over in four months.
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1991 — Belovezha Accords
8 Dec 1991 — In a hunting lodge in the Belarusian forest, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign the USSR out of existence: “the Soviet Union as a subject of international law… has ceased to exist.”
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