DECEMBER 8
1980:John Lennon, a founding member of the Beatles, is shot dead outside the Dakota apartment building in New York by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman. He was 40.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln announces the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, a plan to rebuild the South and pardon Confederate supporters following the Civil War. Lincoln will not live to implement the plan, however, as he is assassinated in April 1865.
1993: President Bill Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law, eliminating many trade barriers on imports and exports traded among the United States, Canada and Mexico.
1980:John Lennon, a founding member of the Beatles, is shot dead outside the Dakota apartment building in New York by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman. He was 40.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln announces the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, a plan to rebuild the South and pardon Confederate supporters following the Civil War. Lincoln will not live to implement the plan, however, as he is assassinated in April 1865.
1993: President Bill Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law, eliminating many trade barriers on imports and exports traded among the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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