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, founded 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 declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
- 1945 - American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He died 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 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.
- 1991 - Recognizing Iraq as the aggressor of Iraq–Iran war
- 1992 - Separation of 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
- 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
- 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1608 - John Milton, English poet, writer (d. 1674)
- 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
- 1850 - Emma Abbott, American opera singer (d. 1891)
- 1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1871 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)
- 1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
- 1878 - Grand Duke Michael Romanov (d. 1918)
- 1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- 1885 - Grete Wiesenthal, dancer and choreographer (d. 1970)
- 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food pioneer (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish 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, writer (d. 1938)
- 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French aviator
- 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, writer (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, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano
- 1916 - Kirk Douglas, actor and film producer
- 1922 - Redd Foxx, comedian and actor (d. 1991)
- 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
- 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, and 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 player
- 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
- 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1947 - Steve Owens, football player
- 1950 - Joan Armatrading, singer
- 1951 - Dominique Dropsy, French footballer
- 1952 - Michael Dorn, actor
- 1953 - John Malkovich, actor
- 1957 - Donny Osmond, entertainer
- 1962 - Felicity Huffman, actress
- 1964 - Paul Landers, guitarist (Rammstein)
- 1967 - Joshua Bell, violinist
- 1968 - Kurt Angle, amateur and 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 playe
- 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress.
- 1982 - Vinnie Accardi, singer and guitarist (Brand New)
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
- 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech pornographic actress
Holidays and observances
