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
- 730 –Battle of Marj Ardabil: the Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah
- 1793 –New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- 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.
- 1875 –The Massachusetts Rifle Association, “America’s Oldest Active Gun Club”, is founded.
- 1897 –Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
- 1911 –A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 1922 –Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 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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