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What Happened on December 9th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.[13][14]
2019	A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.[11]
2017	The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2016	President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
2016	At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
2013	At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
2012	A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.
2008	Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
2003	A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
1996	Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.
1992	American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
1987	Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1979	The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
1973	British 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.
1971	Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1969	U.S. 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.
1968	Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1965	Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
1961	Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1960	The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1956	Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1953	Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1950	Cold War: Harry 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.
1948	The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1946	The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
1946	The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
1941	World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.
1941	World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
1940	World 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.
1937	Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Yasuhiko Asaka launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanking.
1935	Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and are subsequently dispersed by government authorities.
1935	Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1931	The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1922	Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1917	World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.
1911	A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
1905	In France, a law separating church and state is passed.
1872	In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American governor of a U.S. state following the impeachment of Henry C. Warmoth.
1868	The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1861	American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by Congress.
1856	The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1851	The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1835	Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio following the Siege of Béxar.
1824	Patriot 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.
1822	French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.
1775	American Revolutionary War: British troops and Loyalists, misinformed about Patriot militia strength, lose the Battle of Great Bridge, ending British rule in Virginia.
1688	Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing James II to flee England.
1531	The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1432	The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
730	Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
536	Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.

Famous People Born on December 9

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Year	Name
1983	Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer
1916	Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2020)
1934	Junior Wells, American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998)
1931	Cliff Hagan, American basketball player-coach
1974	Fiona MacDonald, Scottish curler
1974	Aloísio da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer
1779	Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor (d. 1853)
1974	Wendy Dillinger, American soccer player, coach, and manager
1976	Chris Booker, American baseball player
1974	Canibus, Jamaican-American rapper

Famous People Deaths On December 9

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Date	Name
1967	Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
1299	Bohemond I, Archbishop of Trier
1991	Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
2008	Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
1937	Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
1972	Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (b. 1881)
2003	Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
1625	Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
1998	Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
1964	Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887)