What happened on December 9? There are more than 318 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About December 9
December 9 is the 344th day of the year 2024. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 50th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Naples, Florida 34101 sunrise will occur at 07:00 AM and sunset will occur at 05:36 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Sagittarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Turquoise while the mystical birthstone is Onyx.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 51 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For December 9
- 730Battle of Marj Ardabil: the Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah
- 1425The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
- 1531The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
- 1775American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
- 1793New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- 1824Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
- 1835The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
- 1851The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1856The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
- 1861American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1872In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
- 1875The Massachusetts Rifle Association, “America’s Oldest Active Gun Club”, is founded.
- 1888Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
- 1897Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
- 1905In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 1911A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 1917World War I: In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
- 1922Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
- 1931The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
- 1935Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder.
- 1937Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
- 1940World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
- 1941World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
- 1941World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
- 1946The “Subsequent Nuremberg Trials” begin with the “Doctors’ Trial”, prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
- 1946The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
- 1950Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
- 1953Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
- 1956Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
- 1958The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
- 1960The first episode of the world’s longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- 1961Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
- 1961The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
- 1962The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- 1965The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
- 1966Barbados joins the United Nations.
- 1968NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
- 1969United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
- 1971Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
- 1971The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
- 1973British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
- 1979The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
- 1981Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become “perhaps the world’s best known death-row inmate” before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.
- 1987Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
- 1988The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
- 2000The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.
- 2003A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
- 2008The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency.
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Who Were Born On December 9?
- 1447Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
- 1508Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
- 1561Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
- 1571Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
- 1579Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
- 1594Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1608John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
- 1610Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
- 1652Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
- 1667William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
- 1717Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian (d. 1768)
- 1748Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
- 1751Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
- 1787John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
- 1806Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
- 1813Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
- 1837Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
- 1842Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
- 1845Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (Uncle Remus)(d. 1908)
- 1847George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)
- 1850Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
- 1861Hélène Smith, French psychic (d. 1929)
- 1867Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek writer (d. 1951)
- 1868Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1870Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician, Founder, Christian Medical College & Hospital, India (d. 1960)
- 1871Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
- 1876Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
- 1882Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- 1883Alexander Papagos, Greek General and Prime Minister (d. 1955)
- 1883Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
- 1886Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
- 1887Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
- 1889Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
- 1891Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
- 1895Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
- 1895Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish political leader (d. 1989)
- 1897Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987)
- 1898Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
- 1899Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
- 1900Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
- 1901Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
- 1901Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1901Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
- 1902Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1904Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1905Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
- 1906Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1909Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
- 1911Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1911Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1911Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
- 1912Tip O'Neill, American politician & 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- 1914Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1915Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
- 1916Jerome Beatty Jr., American author (d. 2002)
- 1916Kirk Douglas, American actor
- 1917James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987)
- 1917James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
- 1918Joyce Redman, Irish actress
- 1919William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
- 1920Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
- 1922Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
- 1925Dina Merrill, American actress
- 1926Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1926Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
- 1927Pierre Henry, French composer
- 1928André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
- 1928Dick Van Patten, American actor
- 1929Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
- 1929John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
- 1930Buck Henry, American actor
- 1931Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
- 1931William Reynolds, American actor
- 1932Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter
- 1933Ashleigh Brilliant, American writer (Pot-Shots)
- 1933Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
- 1933Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1933Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
- 1934Dame Judi Dench, English actress
- 1934Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
- 1936Ben Pon, Dutch vintner and Olympian and motor racing driver
- 1937Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1938David Houston, American country singer (d. 1993)
- 1938Deacon Jones, American football player
- 1940Clancy Eccles, Jamaican Reggae Musician (d. 2005)
- 1941Beau Bridges, American actor
- 1941Dan Hicks, American musician
- 1942Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
- 1942Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1943Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
- 1944Bob O'Connor, American politician (d. 2006)
- 1944Ki Longfellow, American novelist
- 1944Neil Innes, English singer/songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles)
- 1944Tadashi Irie, Japanese yakuza boss
- 1945Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
- 1945Michael Nouri, American actor
- 1946Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
- 1946Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
- 1947Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
- 1947Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1948Dennis Dunaway, American musician (Alice Cooper)
- 1948Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director
- 1949Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
- 1949Tom Kite, American golfer
- 1950Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer-songwriter
- 1952Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
- 1952Michael Dorn, American actor
- 1953Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer
- 1953John Malkovich, American actor
- 1953World B. Free, American basketball player
- 1954Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballplayer and football manager
- 1954Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
- 1955Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
- 1955Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
- 1956Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
- 1957Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
- 1957Peter O’Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and comopser
- 1958Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
- 1958Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
- 1960Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor
- 1960Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
- 1960Stefen Fangmeier, American film director
- 1960Terry Moran, American TV reporter
- 1961David Anthony Higgins, American actor
- 1961Joe Lando, American actor
- 1962Felicity Huffman, American actress
- 1963Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
- 1963Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
- 1964Hape Kerkeling, German actor, TV presenter and comedian
- 1964Johannes B. Kerner, German TV presenter
- 1964Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
- 1965Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
- 1965Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant, Winner of Survivor: Marquesas
- 1966Dana Murzyn, Canadian hockey player
- 1966Dave Harold, English professional snooker player
- 1966Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician
- 1966Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, former soccer player
- 1966Kadyrbek Sarbayev, foreign minister
- 1966Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
- 1966Martin Taylor, footballer coach
- 1966Mateo Romero, Native American painter
- 1966Michael Foster, drummer for rock band FireHouse
- 1966Montserrat Gil Torné, Andorran politician
- 1966Natee Thongsookkaew, Thailand footballer
- 1966Shane Scott, American director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, musician
- 1966Spencer Rochfort, Canadian-American actor
- 1966Toby Huss, American actor
- 1967Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
- 1967Jason Dozzell, English footballer
- 1967Joshua Bell, American violinist
- 1968Brent Price, American basketball player
- 1968Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
- 1968Kurt Angle, American wrestler
- 1969Allison Smith, American actress
- 1969Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- 1969Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
- 1969Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
- 1970Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer, and singer
- 1970Lance Krall, American comedian
- 1971Geoff Barrow, English musician (Portishead)
- 1971Petr Nedvěd, Czech ice hockey player
- 1972Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
- 1972Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
- 1972Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
- 1973Fabio Artico, Italian footballer
- 1974Aloísio, Brazilian footballer
- 1974Canibus, American rapper
- 1974Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,Pakistani singer
- 1974Wendy Dillinger, American footballer and coach
- 1976Chris Booker, American baseball player
- 1977Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
- 1977Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
- 1977Shayne Graham, American football player
- 1978Gaston Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
- 1978Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
- 1979Chen Hao, Chinese actress
- 1979Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
- 1979Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
- 1980Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
- 1980Simon Helberg, American actor
- 1981Dia Mirza, Indian actress
- 1981Mardy Fish, American tennis player
- 1982Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
- 1982Ryan Grant, American football player
- 1982Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
- 1983Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
- 1983Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
- 1984Leon Hall, American football player
- 1985Wil Besseling, Dutch professional golfer
- 1987Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
- 1987Mat Latos, American baseball player
- 1989Lindsey Evans, American glamor model
- 1990LaFee, German singer
- 1991Choi Minho South Korean rap artist (Shinee) and TV host
- 1991Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- 2001Ronnie Paris, American child abuse victim (d. 2005)
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Who Died On December 9?
- 748Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Ummayad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
- 1165King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
- 1437Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
- 1544Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
- 1565Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
- 1603William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
- 1625Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
- 1636Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
- 1640Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b. 1565)
- 1641Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
- 1669Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
- 1674Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
- 1706King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
- 1718Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopaedist (b. 1650)
- 1793Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
- 1798Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
- 1830Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (b. 1757)
- 1854Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
- 1858Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
- 1887Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
- 1906Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
- 1916Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
- 1924Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher (b. 1854)
- 1930Rube Foster, American baseball player (b. 1879)
- 1932Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Bangladeshi writer and social worker (b. 1880)
- 1935Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor (b. 1886)
- 1937Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
- 1941Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
- 1943Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (b. 1870)
- 1952Abe Manley, American baseball team owner (b. 1885)
- 1955Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
- 1963Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian novelist (b. 1903)
- 1964Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)
- 1965Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
- 1967Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer (b. 1898)
- 1970Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1905)
- 1970Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician (b. 1893)
- 1971Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
- 1971Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
- 1972Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
- 1975William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
- 1979Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (b. 1895)
- 1981Daniel Faulkner, American police officer (b. 1955)
- 1982Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905)
- 1984Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
- 1992Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1993Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
- 1994Garnett Silk, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1966)
- 1995Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. 1907)
- 1995Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
- 1996Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
- 1996Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1996Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
- 1996Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
- 1998Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
- 1998Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
- 2001Michael Carver, British soldier (b. 1915)
- 2002Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
- 2002Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
- 2002Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)
- 2003Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
- 2003Paul Simon, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2004David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
- 2004Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
- 2005György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
- 2005Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
- 2007Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (b. 1918)
- 2007Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
- 2008Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
- 2008Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
- 2009Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2010Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
- 2010James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
- 2010John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (b. 1938)
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