9 December
December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining.
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
- 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, founded the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde.
- 1931 - Spain becomes a republic
- 1937 - Battle of
Nanjing begins.
- 1940 - British Army attacks
Italian forces in North Africa
- 1941 - China declares
war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
- 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 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 - First Intifada begins
in the Gaza Strip and West
Bank
- 1990 - Lech Wałęsa
becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.
- 1992 - Separation of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales is announced
- 1992 - US Marines land in Somalia
- 2001 - Professional
wrestler Chris Jericho unifies top titles WWE Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time ever in San Diego, California at the WWE Vengeance pay-per-view.
Births
- 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1608 - John Milton, English poet,
writer (d. 1674)
- 1842 - Peter Kropotkin,
Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
- 1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918.
- 1871 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)
- 1876 - Berton Churchill,
pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1940)
- 1878 - Grand Duke Michael Romanov, Russian
royalty (d. 1918)
- 1882 - Joaquín Turina,
composer (d. 1949)
- 1885 - Grete Wiesenthal, dancer and choreographer (d. 1970)
- 1886 - Clarence
Birdseye, frozen food pioneer (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Hannes
Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner
- 1897 - Hermione Gingold,
actress (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (d.
1979)
- 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, author (d. 1937)
- 1901 - Ödön von Horváth,
dramatist and narrator (d. 1938)
- 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French
aviator.
- 1902 - Margaret
Hamilton, actress (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, writer,
member of the "Hollywood Ten" (d. 1976)
- 1906 - Grace Murray
Hopper, computer pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., actor (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, actor
- 1911 - Broderick Crawford, actor (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Tip O'Neill, former
speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, opera singer
- 1916 - Kirk Douglas, actor and
film producer
- 1922 - Redd Foxx, comedian, actor (d.
1991)
- 1927 - Pierre Henry, composer
- 1928 - Dick Van Patten,
actor
- 1929 - John Cassavetes,
actor and film director (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
- 1930 - Buck Henry, actor, comedian,
writer, director, producer
- 1933 - Morton Downey
Jr., talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Dame Judi Dench actress
- 1934 - Junior Wells, musician (d. 1998)
- 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football star
- 1941 - Beau Bridges, actor
- 1941 - Dan Hicks, musician
- 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1943 - Rick Danko, musician (The Band) (d. 1999)
- 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician and president of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party).
- 1947 - Tom Daschle, American
politician
- 1947 - Steve Owens, football
player
- 1950 - Joan Armatrading,
singer
- 1951 - Dominique Dropsy, French soccer player
- 1952 - Michael Dorn, actor
(Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Deep Space Nine)
- 1953 - John Malkovich,
actor
- 1957 - Donny Osmond,
entertainer
- 1962 - Felicity Huffman,
actress (Magnolia, Sports Night, Desperate
Housewives)
- 1964 - Paul Landers, guitarist
for Rammstein
- 1967 - Joshua Bell, violinist
- 1968 - Kurt Angle, Olympic gold medalist in amateur wrestling, now WWE professional wrestler
- 1968 - Dave Harold, English
snooker player
- 1969 - Jakob Dylan, musician
- 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French soccer player, world champion in 1998.
- 1972 - Tre Cool, musician (Green Day)
- 1972 - Fabrice Santoro,
French tennis player.
- 1981 - Diya Mirza , Indian actress.
Deaths
- 1565 - Pope Pius IV
- 1669 - Pope Clement IX
- 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster,
pioneer of Negro League baseball
- 1937 - Nils Gustaf
Dalén, engineer, physicist
- 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell,
poet
- 1965 - Branch Rickey, baseball commissioner
- 1971 - Ralph Bunche,
diplomat
- 1972 - Louella Parsons,
gossip columnist
- 1995 - Toni Cade
Bambara, author (b. 1939)
- 1996 - Mary Leakey, archeologist,
anthropologist
- 1998 - Archie Moore, boxer
- 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen
- 2002 - Stan Rice, painter, educator,
poet, husband of author Anne Rice
- 2003 - Paul
Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois
- 2004 - David Brudnoy, radio
personality
- 2004 - Dimebag Darrell,
musician
Holidays and observances
- Scandinavia (specifically Sweden): Anna's Day. Recognizes everyone named Anna, and marks the day to start the rotting process
of the lutfisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve.
December 8 - December 10
- November 9 - January 9 --
listing of all days
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