About December 9
December 9, 2023 is the 343rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 63 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 9
- 1425 –The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
- 1531 –The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
- 1961 –The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
- 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.
- 1968 –NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
- 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.
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