Timeline Sinéad O'Connor and the 8th of December

On 8 December 1941 the United States declared war on Japan. Twenty-five years later, to the day, Sinéad O'Connor was born in Dublin — and another twenty-five years on, the Belavezha Accords ended the Soviet Union.

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1941 United States declares war on Japan Roosevelt's "day of infamy" speech The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan, calling 7 December "a date which will live in infamy". Congress approved the declaration within the hour, with a single dissenting vote.
1966 Sinéad O'Connor born in Dublin Born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor in Glenageary, County Dublin. She endured a difficult childhood marked by her parents' divorce and alleged abuse by her mother.
1991 The Belavezha Accords Russia, Ukraine and Belarus declare the Soviet Union over Three leaders in a hunting lodge dissolved a superpower and set up the CIS instead.