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This day in history: 9 December

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431 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 December.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2021: Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.

Holidays and observances

Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland)

Armed Forces Day (Peru)

Christian feast day: December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Hannah (biblical figure) (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Juan Diego

Christian feast day: Leocadia

Christian feast day: Nectarius of Auvergne

Christian feast day: Peter Fourier

Fatherland's Heroes Day (Russia)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961. (Tanzania)

International Anti-Corruption Day (United Nations)

Events

2021Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.

2019A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.

2017The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.

2016At 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.

2016President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.

2013At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.

2012A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people including singer Jenni Rivera.

2008Governor 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.

2006Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-116 carrying the P5 truss segment of the International Space Station.

2003A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

1996Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.

1992American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.

1987Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

1979The 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).

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.

1971Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.

1969U.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.

1968Douglas 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).

1965Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.

1961Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

1960The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

1956An Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes near Anadyr, killing all 12 people on board.

1956Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.

1953Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

1950Cold 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.

1948The Genocide Convention is adopted.

1946The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

1946The 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.

1941World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.

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.

1937Second 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.

1935Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and are subsequently dispersed by government authorities.

1935Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.

1931The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

1922Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.

1917World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.

1917World War I: The Kingdom of Romania signs the Armistice of Focșani with the Central Powers.

1911A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

1905In France, a law separating church and state is passed.

1893National Assembly bombing by Auguste Vaillant during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894).

Born on this day

2005Ni-Ki, Japanese singer

2003Yuna, South Korean rapper, singer and dancer

2000Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater

1997Harvey Barnes, English footballer

1996AleXa, American singer based in South Korea

1996Kyle Connor, American ice hockey player

1996Mackenzie Blackwood, Canadian ice hockey player

1996MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast

1995Kelly Oubre Jr., American basketball player

1995McKayla Maroney, American gymnast

1995Simone Fontecchio, Italian basketball player

1994Ryan Lomberg, Canadian ice hockey player

1993Cem Ince, German politician

1993Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist

1993Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder

1991Choi Min-ho, South Korean singer and actor

1991Langston Galloway, American basketball player

1990Ashleigh Brewer, Australian actress

1990Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer

1990SungWon Cho, American YouTuber and actor

1989Eric Bledsoe, American basketball player

1988Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer

1987Gerald Henderson Jr., American basketball player

1987Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player

1987Jeff Petry, American ice hockey player

1987Joshua Sasse, English actor

1987Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer

1987Mat Latos, American baseball player

1986Aron Baynes, Australian basketball player

1985Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer

1984Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer

1984Leon Hall, American football player

1983Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer

1983Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer

1983Jolene Purdy, American actress

1983Neslihan Demir Darnel, Turkish volleyball player

1982Bastian Swillims, German sprinter

1982Jim Slater, American ice hockey player

1982Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner

1982Ryan Grant, American football player

Died on this day

2024Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer and activist (born 1943)

2022Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (born 1993)

2021Demaryius Thomas, American football player (born 1987)

2021Speedy Duncan, American football player (born 1942)

2015Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (born 1936)

2015Juvenal Juvêncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1934)

2015Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (born 1941)

2015Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (born 1927)

2014Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1947)

2014Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (born 1924)

2014Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (born 1923)

2014Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (born 1926)

2014Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (born 1937)

2014Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (born 1933)

2013Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (born 1930)

2013Eleanor Parker, American actress (born 1922)

2013Hristu Cândroveanu, Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (born 1928)

2013John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1909)

2013John Wilbur, American football player (born 1943)

2012Alex Moulton, English engineer and businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (born 1920)

2012Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter and academic (born 1918)

2012Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (born 1927)

2012Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1969)

2012Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (born 1921)

2012Patrick Moore, English lieutenant, astronomer, and educator (born 1923)

2012Riccardo Schicchi, Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (born 1953)

2010Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician, 10th Speaker of the Knesset (born 1924)

2010James Moody, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (born 1925)

2009Gene Barry, American actor (born 1919)

2008Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (born 1972)

Quote of the day

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus

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