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Today is December 8th, 2019 and is a Sunday.

On this day in....

2010: With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

2009: Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 and injure 448.

2007: Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed.

1991: The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.

1991: The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.