December 9
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December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining.
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Events
- 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster
- 1824 - Battle of Ayacucho - Peru defeats Spain
- 1835 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio
- 1851 - First YMCA in North America established in Montreal, Quebec
- 1856 - Bushehr surrenders to the British.
- 1861 - Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created by the U.S. Congress
- 1872 - P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African American governor of a U.S. state
- 1888 - Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department
- 1897 - Marguerite Durand, a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette, founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde.
- 1905 - Law separating church and state passed in France
- 1931 - Spain becomes a republic
- 1937 - Battle of Nanjing begins.
- 1940 - British Army attacks Italian forces in North Africa
- 1941 - China and Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
- 1945 - American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.
- 1946 - Doctors' Trial: The trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity began for medical researchers involved in the horrors of Nazi human experimentation .
- 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union
- 1953 - General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be discharged from the company
- 1958 - John Birch Society founded.
- 1960 - Coronation Street first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom.
- 1961 - Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
- 1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic
- 1982 - Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
- 1987 - The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank
- 1990 - Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.
- 1992 - Separation of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales is announced
- 1992 - US Marines land in Somalia
- 2001 - Chris Jericho unifies the WWE Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time ever at the WWE Vengeance pay-per-view.
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Births
- 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
- 1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
- 1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
- 1561 - Edwin Sandys, Virginia colonist (d. 1629)
- 1571 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
- 1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
- 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1608 - John Milton, English writer (d. 1674)
- 1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
- 1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
- 1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
- 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
- 1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
- 1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
- 1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
- 1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
- 1897 - Hermione Gingold, British actress (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
- 1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
- 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
- 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
- 1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano
- 1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor and film producer
- 1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of Italy
- 1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (d. 1991)
- 1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
- 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
- 1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
- 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and film director (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
- 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer
- 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Dame Judi Dench English actress
- 1934 - Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
- 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
- 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
- 1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
- 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1943 - Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
- 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
- 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Estonian politician
- 1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born singer
- 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
- 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
- 1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
- 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
- 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
- 1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
- 1968 - Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler
- 1968 - Dave Harold, English snooker player
- 1969 - Jakob Dylan, American musician
- 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- 1972 - Tre Cool, American musician (Green Day)
- 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, French tennis player
- 1976 - Imogen Heap, Singer, Songwriter
- 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
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Deaths
- 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
- 1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
- 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
- 1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
- 1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
- 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and gegrapher (b. 1547)
- 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
- 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
- 1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
- 1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
- 1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
- 1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
- 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (b. 1650)
- 1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
- 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist
- 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, Negro League baseball player
- 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet (b. 1887)
- 1965 - Branch Rickey, baseball commissioner (b. 1884)
- 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
- 1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
- 1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, English musician (b. 1960)
- 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
- 1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
- 2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
- 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
- 2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
- 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
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Holidays and observances
- Scandinavia (specifically Sweden): Anna's Day. Recognizes everyone named Anna, and marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve.
- Tanzania - Independence Day
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External links
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