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List of December 9 Historical Events and Facts

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  • 1775: American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
  • 1793: New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
  • 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.
  • 1835: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
  • 1851: The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
  • 1856: The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
  • 1861: American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
  • 1872: In Louisiana, P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
  • 1875: The Massachusetts Rifle Association, “America’s Oldest Active Gun Club”, is founded.
  • 1888: Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
  • 1897: Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
  • 1905: In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
  • 1911: A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
  • 1917: World War I: In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
  • 1922: Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
  • 1931: The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
  • 1935: Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder.
  • 1941: World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
  • 1941: World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
  • 1946: The “Subsequent Nuremberg Trials” begin with the “Doctors’ Trial”, prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
  • 1946: The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
  • 1953: Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
  • 1956: Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
  • 1958: The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
  • 1960: The first episode of the world’s longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
  • 1961: Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
  • 1962: The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
  • 1966: Barbados joins the United Nations.
  • 1968: NLS is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
  • 1971: The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
  • 1979: The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
  • 1987: Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
  • 1988: The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
  • 2003: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
  • 2008: The 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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