Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico. Date: December 9, 2021 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 2021 📅 On This Day (Today)

King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne. Date: December 8, 1907 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1907 📅 On This Day (Today)

Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. Date: December 8, 1912 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1912 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Date: December 8, 1914 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1914 📅 On This Day (Today)

Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army: Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O'Connor. Date: December 8, 1922 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1922 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.) Date: December 8, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day…

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. Date: December 8, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)

World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta. Date: December 8, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on…

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. Date: December 8, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in…