About December 9
December 9, 2024 is the 344th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 51 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 9
- 1425 –The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
- 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.
- 1851 –The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1888 –Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
- 1922 –Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
- 1946 –The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
- 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.
- 1965 –The 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.
- 1966 –Barbados joins the United Nations.
- 1969 –United 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.
- 1971 –Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
- 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.
- 1981 –Philadelphia 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.
- 1988 –The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
- 2000 –The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.
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