Notable Historical Events on December 9th
December 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
536 |
Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire. |
656 |
Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion |
1212 |
Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz. |
1315 |
Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) |
1425 |
Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven |
1570 |
The Geuzen (a confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein |
1625 |
Netherlands & England sign military treaty |
1640 |
Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin |
1658 |
Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India |
1688 |
King James II's wife & son flee England for France |
1724 |
Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt" premieres in London |
1738 |
Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia |
1747 |
England & Netherlands sign military treaty |
1762 |
British parliament accepts Treaty of Paris |
1783 |
1st execution at Newgate Jail in London |
1793 |
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva |
1805 |
Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth |
1824 |
Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain |
1842 |
St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla" premieres in Petersburg |
1851 |
1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) |
1854 |
Alfred Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published |
1856 |
The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces. |
1861 |
Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah) |
1861 |
American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress. |
1868 |
1st British government of Gladstone forms |
1869 |
Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia |
1878 |
Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500 |
1883 |
New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902) |
1884 |
Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate |
1889 |
President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium |
1894 |
Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium |
1897 |
Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris. |
1899 |
Boer War: During Seige of Ladysmith, Boers storm King's Post and Caesar's Camp - driven back |
1900 |
Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession |
1902 |
AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY |
1903 |
Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage |
1905 |
French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state |
1905 |
Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" premiers in Dresden |
1906 |
NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo |
1907 |
1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) |
1907 |
Gustav Mahler departs Vienna |
1908 |
The German Reichstag adopts a progressive social law restricting hours of factory work by young people and women |
1909 |
1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY) |
1910 |
French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
1913 |
Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris |
1913 |
John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League |
1917 |
British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem |
1918 |
French troops occupies Mainz |
1922 |
Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president |
1924 |
Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed |
1924 |
Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president |
1925 |
AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000 |
1925 |
Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000 |
1926 |
USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs |
1931 |
Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry" premieres in NYC |
1931 |
Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
1931 |
Spain becomes a republic |
1931 |
Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers |
1933 |
21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3 |
1933 |
Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard |
1934 |
NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship |
1935 |
Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder. |
1936 |
AL OKs night baseball for St Louis |
1936 |
Australia all out 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck |
1939 |
27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7 |
1939 |
Russian air raid on Helsinki |
1940 |
British assault on Banghazi Libya: 1st major offensive in North Africa |
1940 |
Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius |
1940 |
South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11 |
1941 |
1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines |
1941 |
300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ |
1941 |
7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB) |
1941 |
China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy |
1941 |
Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester" |
1941 |
Hitler orders US ships torpedoed |
1948 |
UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide |
1949 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Indonesian sovereignty |
1949 |
NFL merges Cleveland Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC |
1951 |
Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germany |
1953 |
General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired |
1953 |
Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins |
1954 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Royal Swedish Academy of Music |
1957 |
1st Japanese ambassador to Israel |
1958 |
Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society |
1960 |
1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV |
1961 |
"From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
1961 |
"Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs |
1961 |
SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel |
1961 |
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania |
1961 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY |
1962 |
"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway |
1962 |
Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth |
1963 |
Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped |
1965 |
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres |
1965 |
Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles |
1965 |
Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium |
1967 |
Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace |
1967 |
Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes President (dictator) of Romania. In power until 1989 |
1968 |
KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco. |
1968 |
Terence O'Neill, Northern Ireland Prime Minister, makes a television appeal for moderate opinion in what became known as the 'Ulster stands at the Crossroads' speech |
1968 |
The Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month |
1970 |
Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls |
1970 |
OPEC meeting in Caracas establishes 55 percent as minimum tax rate and demands that posted prices be changed to reflect changes in foreign exchange rates |
1971 |
Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court |
1973 |
"Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances |
1973 |
Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ |
1973 |
St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons |
1973 |
Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland |
1973 |
Arab oil ministers announce a further production cut of 5 percent for January for non-friendly countries |
1974 |
Dow Jones index hits 570.01 |
1974 |
Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ |
1974 |
Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana |
1975 |
Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize |
1975 |
US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan-authorization for NYC |
1975 |
Iraq completes nationalization by taking over the BP, CFP, and Shell shares of the Basrah Petroleum Company |
1978 |
Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus |
1978 |
1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does |
1979 |
Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1980 |
61°F in Boston at 1 AM |
1981 |
Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders |
1983 |
Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it" |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63) |
1984 |
6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends |
1984 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane |
1984 |
LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards |
1984 |
Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1985 |
74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63) |
1985 |
Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive games with a reception |
1985 |
Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow |
1987 |
Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws |
1987 |
Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank |
1988 |
NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M |
1988 |
The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened. |
1989 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne |
1990 |
Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship |
1990 |
Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) |
1990 |
Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14 |
1990 |
Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland |
1990 |
NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard |
1991 |
2nd Billboard Music Awards: Michael Jackson & Whitney Houston win |
1992 |
3rd Billboard Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Ropin' The Wind win |
1992 |
Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks |
1992 |
Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia |
1992 |
Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts) |
1992 |
NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season |
1993 |
"My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances |
1993 |
Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns |
1994 |
5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth |
1994 |
US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation |
1995 |
61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB) |
2003 |
A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more. |
2005 |
"Brokeback Mountain", starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, is released |
2006 |
Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center. |
2008 |
The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency |
2012 |
13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan |
2012 |
6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala |
2012 |
Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud |
2012 |
The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the parliamentary elections |
2012 |
Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight title |
2013 |
Mike Ditka's #89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears |
2015 |
TIME names German leader Angela Merkel its Person of the Year |
2016 |
Russia says over 8000 have fled rebel-held Aleppo in last 24 hours |
2016 |
Figures show Trump spent $66 million of his own cash on election campaign |
2016 |
Hillary Clinton cites 'fake news' as urgent threat to democracy |
2016 |
Trump picks Andrew Puzder to lead US Department of Labor |
2017 |
Two-way Japanese star Shohei Ohtani agrees to sign with Angels |
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