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.
- 1793 –New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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