December 9
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 1905 - Law seperating 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 .
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 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 )
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 )
1926 - Jan Křesadlo , Czech emigre 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, 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
2004 - Lea De Mae , Czech pornographic actress
Holidays and observances
External links
December 8 - December 10 - November 9 - January 9 -- listing of all days
