About December 9
December 9, 2021 is the 343rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 9
- 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.
- 1856 –The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
- 1872 –In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
- 1905 –In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 1911 –A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 1935 –Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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