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
- 1425 –The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
- 1835 –The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
- 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.
- 1897 –Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
- 1905 –In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 1917 –World War I: In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 1953 –Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
- 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.
- 1962 –The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- 1966 –Barbados joins the United Nations.
- 1968 –NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
- 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.
- 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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