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DECEMBER 8
1941:After the attack on Pearl Harbor a day earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers an impassioned speech before a joint session of Congress,
which declares war on Japan, bringing the United States into World War
II. Montana Rep. Jeanette Rankin, a lifelong pacifist, casts the sole
dissenting vote.
1980: John Lennon,
a founding member of The Beatles, is shot and killed outside of the
Dakota apartment building in New York by obsessed fan Mark David
Chapman. Earlier in the day, Chapman had asked for and received an
autograph from Lennon on his new Double Fantasy album.
1991: Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich, the leaders of Russia,
Ukraine and Belarus, sign the Belavezha Accords, effectively dissolving
the Soviet Union and uniting the three nations in the Commonwealth of
Independent States.
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