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09 Dec 1212
Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz
09 Dec 1315
Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
09 Dec 1570
The Geuzen (a confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
09 Dec 1640
Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
09 Dec 1658
Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
09 Dec 1688
King James IIs wife & son flee England for France
09 Dec 1724
Colley Cibbers play Caesar in Egypt premieres in London
09 Dec 1747
Great Britain & Netherlands sign military treaty
09 Dec 1783
First execution at Newgate Jail in London (now the site of the Central Criminal Court aka the Old Bailey) relocated from Tyburn (now the site of Marble Arch)
09 Dec 1805
Comet 3D V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
09 Dec 1824
Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui) Peru defeats Spain
09 Dec 1842
Mikhail Glinkas opera Russlan and Ludmilla premieres in Petersburg
09 Dec 1851
1st Young Mens Christian Association in North America set up in Montreal
09 Dec 1856
The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
09 Dec 1861
Battle of Bird Creek Indian Terr (High Shoal Chusto-Talasah)
09 Dec 1861
American Civil War The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
09 Dec 1868
The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
09 Dec 1869
Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded Philadelphia
09 Dec 1878
Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for 2500
09 Dec 1883
New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
09 Dec 1894
Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
09 Dec 1897
Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
09 Dec 1899
Boer War During Siege of Ladysmith Boers storm Kings Post and Caesars Camp - driven back
09 Dec 1900
President Paul Kruger of South Africas Transvaal & Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands have a triumphant procession
09 Dec 1902
AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
09 Dec 1903
Norwegian parliament votes unanimiously for female suffrage
09 Dec 1905
French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
09 Dec 1905
Richard Strauss opera Salome premieres in Dresden
09 Dec 1906
NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
09 Dec 1907
First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Delaware post office)
09 Dec 1908
The German Reichstag adopts a progressive social law restricting hours of factory work by young people and women
09 Dec 1909
1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden Long Island NY)
09 Dec 1910
French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
09 Dec 1913
Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
09 Dec 1913
John K Tener becomes president of baseballs National League
09 Dec 1917
British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
09 Dec 1922
15th Womens Australasian Championships (1st for women) Margaret Molesworth beats Esna Boyd (6-3 10-8)
09 Dec 1922
15th Australasian Championships James Anderson beats Gerald Patterson (6-0 3-6 3-6 6-3 6-2)
09 Dec 1924
Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
09 Dec 1925
AL extends Ban Johnsons contract to 1935 & raise to 40000
09 Dec 1925
Pro football a hit in NYC Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73000
09 Dec 1931
Benn W Levys Springtime for Henry premieres in NYC
09 Dec 1931
Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
09 Dec 1931
Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
09 Dec 1933
CFL Grey Cup Athletic Park Sarnia Toronto Argonauts edge Sarnia Imperials 4-3 for their 3rd Championship
09 Dec 1934
NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
09 Dec 1935
Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
09 Dec 1935
1st Heisman Trophy Award Jay Berwanger Chicago (HB)
09 Dec 1938
1939 NFL Draft Ki Aldrich from TCU first pick by Chicago Cardinals
09 Dec 1939
CFL Grey Cup Landsdowne Park Ottawa Winnipeg Blue Bombers claim 2nd title defeat Ottawa Rough Riders 8-7
09 Dec 1939
1940 NFL Draft George Cafego from University of Tennessee first pick by Chicago Cardinals
09 Dec 1940
British assault on Benghazi Libya first major allied offensive in North Africa
09 Dec 1940
Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
09 Dec 1940
South Australia all out for 47 v NSW OReilly 5-11
09 Dec 1941
1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East Luzon Philippines
09 Dec 1941
300 Montgomery San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ
09 Dec 1941
7th Heisman Trophy Award Bruce Smith Minnesota (HB)
09 Dec 1941
Citizen Register reports Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester
09 Dec 1948
UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
09 Dec 1949
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Indonesian sovereignty
09 Dec 1949
NFL merges Cleveland Browns SF 49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
09 Dec 1951
West German voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg
09 Dec 1953
General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
09 Dec 1953
Montreal Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
09 Dec 1958
Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
09 Dec 1960
1st broadcast of Coronation Street on British ITV
09 Dec 1961
From the Second City closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 performances
09 Dec 1961
Let It Ride closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 68 performances
09 Dec 1961
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
09 Dec 1962
I Can Get It For You Wholesale closes on Broadway
09 Dec 1962
Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
09 Dec 1965
Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
09 Dec 1965
Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Soviet Praesidium
09 Dec 1968
KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
09 Dec 1968
NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
09 Dec 1968
Terence ONeill Northern Ireland Prime Minister makes a television appeal for moderate opinion in what became known as the Ulster stands at the Crossroads speech
09 Dec 1968
The Derry Citizens Action Committee (DCAC) calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month
09 Dec 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
09 Dec 1971
Lewis F. Powell Jr. appointed to US Supreme Court
09 Dec 1973
Pajama Game opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
09 Dec 1973
St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
09 Dec 1973
Arab oil ministers announce a further production cut of 5 percent for January for non-friendly countries
09 Dec 1974
Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo to become NWA wrestling champ
09 Dec 1974
Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana
09 Dec 1975
Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharovs Nobel Prize
09 Dec 1975
Iraq completes nationalization by taking over the BP CFP and Shell shares of the Basrah Petroleum Company
09 Dec 1978
Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
09 Dec 1978
1st game of Womens Pro Basketball League (WBL) Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
09 Dec 1979
Murle BreerDave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
09 Dec 1981
Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
09 Dec 1983
Counselor to Ronald Regan Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens ...because food is free & thats easier than paying for it
09 Dec 1984
Iranian commandos end day hijack of Kuwaiti plane
09 Dec 1984
LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2105 yards
09 Dec 1984
Vicki AlvarezMike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
09 Dec 1987
Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
09 Dec 1988
NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for 500M
09 Dec 1988
The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo Ireland is officially opened.
09 Dec 1988
Premiere of fact based crime drama film Mississippi Burning
09 Dec 1989
Les Miserables opens at Princess Theatre Melbourne
09 Dec 1990
Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (410.80)
09 Dec 1990
Houston scores most points against Cleveland Oilers 58 Browns 14
09 Dec 1990
NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10000th yard
09 Dec 1990
23rd NAACP Image Awards Coming to America wins Outstanding Motion Picture
09 Dec 1992
Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
09 Dec 1992
Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
09 Dec 1992
Sri Lankas third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)
09 Dec 1992
NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black red & white for the -93 season
09 Dec 1993
My Fair Lady opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
09 Dec 1994
5m meteor XM1 passes within 100000 km of Earth
09 Dec 1994
US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation
09 Dec 1995
61st Heisman Trophy Award Eddie George Ohio State (RB)
09 Dec 2003
A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
09 Dec 2004
Mary-Kate Olsen pledges that woman sewing garments for her company in Bangladesh will be afforded legal maternity leave
09 Dec 2006
Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977 killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center.
09 Dec 2006
72nd Heisman Trophy Award Troy Smith Ohio State (QB)
09 Dec 2012
13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
09 Dec 2012
6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
09 Dec 2012
Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud
09 Dec 2012
The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the parliamentary elections
09 Dec 2014
CIA Torture Report released detailing the CIAs use of torture on detainees between 2001-2006
09 Dec 2015
Attack on Kandahar airport by Taliban forces kills at least 37 before Afghan forces retake control
09 Dec 2015
Amazons best-selling book of the year is Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins
09 Dec 2016
South Korean MPs vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye
09 Dec 2016
Ghanaian Presidential election won by Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party
09 Dec 2017
Funeral for French rock star Johnny Hallyday draws hundreds of thousands onto Paris streets
09 Dec 1922
1st Australasian Championships Womens Tennis Sydney Margaret Molesworth wins inaugural title beats fellow Australian Esna Boyd 6-3 10-8
09 Dec 1922
Australasian Championships Mens Tennis Sydney James Anderson wins 1st of 3 Australasian titles beats fellow Australian Gerald Patterson 6-0 3-6 3-6 6-3 6-2
09 Dec 1982
World Boxing Council first to reduce the length of championship fights from 15 to 12 rounds and allows referees to order standing 8-count for fighters in trouble
09 Dec 1984
Senior PGA Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Australian Peter Thomson wins his lone Champions Tour major title by 3 strokes from Don January
09 Dec 2000
Tottenham defender Ledley King scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 9.82 seconds in 3-3 draw at Bradford City
09 Dec 2017
83rd Heisman Trophy Award Baker Mayfield Oklahoma (QB)
09 Dec 2018
Copa Libertadores Final Madrid River Plate beats Boca Juniors 3-1 in extra time (aggregate 5-3) Juan Quinteros stunning extra-time strike helps River come from a goal down to record historic victory over 10-man Boca
09 Dec 2018
Tens of thousands march on Delhi India to demand Hindi temple be built on contentious religious site in Ayodhya
09 Dec 2018
Winter storm hits US south east killing three leaving hundreds of thousands without power cancelling over 1000 flights
09 Dec 2018
Armenias acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wins a snap election with 70.4% of the vote
09 Dec 2018
Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rogers breaks Tom Bradys NFL record with his 359th straight pass without an interception during Packers 34-20 win over Atlanta Falcons finishes game with streak intact at 368
09 Dec 1910
French troops occupy the Moroccan harbor city of Agadir
09 Dec 1958
Robert W. Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the conservative and anti-Communist John Birch Society
09 Dec 1975
Yelena Bonner accepts Soviet dissident Andrei Sacharovs Nobel Prize in Oslo
09 Dec 1984
PGA Seniors Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Australian Peter Thomson wins his lone Champions Tour major title by 3 strokes from Don January
09 Dec 2017
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Australia after being signed into law by the Governor General
09 Dec 2019
World Anti-Doping Agency bans Russia from all major sporting events including 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 football World Cup in Qatar for manipulating laboratory data
09 Dec 2019
White Island Whakaari volcano a tourist attraction in New Zealand erupts killing 16
09 Dec 2019
US officials deliberately misled the public on progress of the Afghanistan war hid that it was a lost cause according to The Washington Post analysis of the Afghanistan Papers
09 Dec 2019
Chilean Air Force plane lost on flight to Antarctica with presumed loss of 38 lives
09 Dec 1842
Mikhail Glinkas opera Russlan and Ludmilla premieres at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg Russia
09 Dec 1892
English football club Newcastle United founded
09 Dec 1953
Montreal Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) combine for 204 penalty minutes
09 Dec 1973
NFL St. Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
09 Dec 1992
NHL NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black red & white for the -93 season
09 Dec 2003
Peter Pan live action adventure film adaptation of the 1904 play and 1911 by J.M. Barrie premieres in London flops at the box office
09 Dec 2013
MLB pitcher Roy Halladay announces his retirement due to persistent back injury
09 Dec 2016
Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool London England Europe wins 7th consecutive title convincingly beating US 11-3 MVP Albin Ouschan (Austria)
09 Dec 2020
United Arab Emirates is the first country to authorize Chinas Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19 saying it is 86% effective
09 Dec 2020
Canada approves the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19
09 Dec 1938
State of California uses gas chamber instead of hanging for 2nd time in a week Wesley Eudy and Fred Barnes executed for roles in Folsom Prison escape attempt resulting in murder of warden and guard (San Quentin State Prison Marin County)
09 Dec 1939
Pianist and statesman Ignacy Paderewski becomes Chief of National Council of Poland (government in exile)
09 Dec 1949
NFL merges with AAFC Cleveland Browns San Francisco 49ers & Baltimore Colts join league intact other teams in New York and Los Angeles are merged with existing units
09 Dec 1952
Great Smog of London (England) Wind resumes lifting citys worst smog after 4 days over 8000 deaths attributed to conditions clean air legislation enacted in its wake [1] [2]
09 Dec 1961
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania - with Ukuru (Freedom) Torch lit on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro
09 Dec 1968
In The Mother of All Demos Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer system NLS (oN-Line System) to a live audience in San Francisco. Shows for the first time the mouse word processing windows hypertext links video conferencing real-time collaboration and other modern computing concepts. [1]
09 Dec 1984
Iranian commandos end 5-day hijacking of Kuwaiti plane
09 Dec 1995
The Messel Pit in Germany inscribed on UNECOs World Heritage List as the world richest fossil site for Eocene period (57-36 million years ago) [1]
09 Dec 2018
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady breaks Peyton Mannings record for most touchdown passes in NFL history moves to 582 with 3 TD passes during 34-33 defeat by Miami Dolphins record includes TDs thrown in regular season & post-season
09 Dec 1877
Russo-Turkish War Turkish troops attempt to break Russian and Romanian encirclement of Plevna Ottoman Empire (now Pleven Bulgaria) fails
09 Dec 1913
John K. Tener becomes president of baseballs National League
09 Dec 1947
Menahem Presser (19) makes his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in Robert Schumanns Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandys direction (NYC)
09 Dec 2006
Jigme Singye Wangchuk King of Bhutan abdicates the throne
09 Dec 1425
Pope Martin V founds the University of Leuven (Netherlands) today one of Europes oldest universities [1]
09 Dec 1897
French activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris
09 Dec 1949
House of Representatives of The Netherlands accepts Indonesian sovereignty
09 Dec 2019
White Island Whakaari volcano a tourist attraction in New Zealand erupts killing 22
09 Dec 2021
Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of falsely reporting a hate crime in 2019 in a Chicago court (overturned 2024)
09 Dec 2021
Chicago Black Hawks Marc-Andre Fleury becomes 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal
09 Dec 2021
More than 40 camels disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements were discovered [1]
09 Dec 2021
Truck with a trailer carrying 150 migrants crashes in Chiapas Mexico killing 54 [1]
09 Dec 2023
89th Heisman Trophy Award Jayden Daniels LSU (QB)
09 Dec 1884
Levant Richardson patents roller skates with ball bearings
09 Dec 1899
Siege of Ladysmith Boer forces storm Kings Post and Caesars Camp but are driven back by British defenders
09 Dec 1909
Henry W. Walden flies the first US monoplane on Long Island New York
09 Dec 1931
Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
09 Dec 1939
World-renowned pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Chief of National Council of Poland (government in exile)
09 Dec 1960
First broadcast of Coronation Street on British ITV recognised by Guinness World Records as the worlds longest-running television soap opera upon its 50th anniversary in 2010
09 Dec 1978
First game of Womens Professional Basketball League (WBL) Chicago Hustle vs. Milwaukee Does
09 Dec 1983
Counselor to Ronald Reagan Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens because food is free & thats easier than paying for it
09 Dec 1995
The Messel Pit in Germany is inscribed on UNESCOs World Heritage List as the worlds richest fossil site for the Eocene period (57-36 million years ago) [1]
09 Dec 2017
Hundreds of thousands of people line the Paris streets for the funeral of French rock star Johnny Hallyday bringing Paris to a standstill
09 Dec 2021
More than 40 camels are disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements are discovered [1]
09 Dec 2022
Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili is arrested on charges of corruption amidst Qatargate [1]
09 Dec 2024
Google unveils a new quantum computer capable of performing a mathematical calculation in 5 minutes that the most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years [1]
09 Dec 2024
Luigi Mangione (26) is arrested at an Altoona Pennsylvania fast food restaurant after a five-day manhunt and charged with murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in NYC
09 Dec 2024
NFL Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley sets new franchise season record for yards rushing 1623 yards with four games still to play