About December 9
December 9, 2025 is the 343rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 70 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 9
- 1793 –New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- 1835 –The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
- 1851 –The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- 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.
- 1917 –World War I: In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
- 1931 –The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
- 1937 –Second 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –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.
- 1958 –The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
- 1962 –The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
- 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.
- 2003 –A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
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