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On this day - December 9
536 — Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome ...
730 — Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army ...
1432 — The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and ...
1531 — The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at ...
1636 — The Qing dynasty of China, led by Emperor Hong Taiji, invades ...
1775 — American Revolutionary War: British troops and Loyalists, ...
1822 — French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to ...
1824 — Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a ...
1835 — Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio ...
1851 — The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1856 — The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British ...
1861 — American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the ...
1868 — The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of ...
1872 — In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African ...
1893 — National Assembly bombing by Auguste Vaillant during the Ère ...
1905 — In France, a law separating church and state is passed.
1911 — A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners ...
1917 — World War I: The Kingdom of Romania signs the Armistice of ...
1917 — World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the ...
1922 — Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1931 — The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which ...
1935 — Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is ...
1935 — Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and ...
1937 — Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops ...
1940 — World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops ...
1941 — World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine ...
1946 — The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to ...
1946 — The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' ...
1948 — The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1950 — Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for ...
1953 — Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist ...
1956 — An Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes near Anadyr, killing all 12 ...
1956 — Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9, a Canadair North Star, ...
1960 — The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's ...
1961 — Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1965 — Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to ...
1968 — Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother ...
1969 — U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan ...
1971 — Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop ...
1973 — British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement ...
1979 — The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making ...
1987 — Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the ...
1992 — American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
1996 — Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving ...
2003 — A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds ...
2006 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on ...
2008 — Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal ...
2012 — A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people including singer ...
2013 — At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train ...
2016 — At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when ...
2016 — President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the ...
2017 — The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes ...
2019 — A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 ...
2021 — Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a ...