On this day: 9 December
Events, births and deaths on 9 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Rod Paige
10 years ago2016
- Events · Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
- Events · Madagali suicide bombings
100 years ago1926
- Births · Henry Way Kendall
- Births · Lorenzo Wright
- Births · Jan Křesadlo
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1117 · Deaths · Gertrude of Brunswick
Events · 27
- 730(Julian date)Battle of Marj Ardabil — 730 battle of the Second Arab-Khazar War
- 1636Second Manchu invasion of Korea — invasion of Joseon by the Qing Empire in 1636, ending with Joseon defeat and Joseon cutting ties with the Ming
- 1688Battle of Reading — 1688 English battle
- 1775Battle of Great Bridge — 1775 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1824Battle of Ayacucho — 1824 battle of the Peruvian War of Independence
- 1892Newcastle United F.C. — association football club in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
- 19051905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State — Legal basis of state secularism in France
- 1917Truce of Focșani — 1917 World War I armistice
- 1935December 9th Movement — student protest in Beijing on 9 Dec. 1935 to demand that the Chinese government actively resist Japanese aggression
- 1940Operation Compass — 1940 military operation
- 1946Nuremberg Medical Trial — first of 12 U.S. war crimes trials in Nuremberg
- 1948Genocide Convention — 1948 United Nations resolution which legally defined genocide
- 1960Coronation Street — British soap opera
- 1961Tanganyika — country in East Africa from 1961 to 1964
- 1965Kecksburg UFO incident — 1965 purported UFO sighting in North America
- 1968The Mother of All Demos — 1968 computer demonstration by Douglas Engelbart
- 1973Sunningdale Agreement — 1973 attempt to introduce power-sharing in Northern Ireland
- 1990
- 1992Unified Task Force — 1992 American-led UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia
- 20032003 Red Square bombing — 9 December 2003 suicide bombing on Mohovaja street in Moscow
- 20122012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash — American singer Jenni Rivera crashed south of Monterrey, Mexico
- 2013December 2013 Bintaro train crash — train crash in Indonesia
- 2016Impeachment of Park Geun-hye — impeachment of the former S. Korean president
- 2016Madagali suicide bombings — 2016 terror attack in Madagali, Nigeria
- 2017Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 — Australian law
- 20192019 Whakaari / White Island eruption — volcanic eruption in New Zealand
- 2022Qatargate — corruption scandal at the European Parliament
Births · 60
- 1447(Julian date)Chenghua Emperor — 9th Emperor of the Ming dynasty (1447-1487)
- 1508(Julian date)Gemma Frisius — Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (1508–1555)
- 1579(Julian date)Martin de Porres — Peruvian religious figure and saint (1579–1639)
- 1594(Julian date)Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden — Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632)
- 1608John Milton — English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
- 1709Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans — Queen consort of Spain
- 1717Johann Joachim Winckelmann — German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)
- 1742Carl Wilhelm Scheele — Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
- 1748Claude Louis Berthollet — French chemist (1748-1822)
- 1842Peter Kropotkin — Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
- 1868Fritz Haber — German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
- 1883Alexandros Papagos — Greek military leader and politician (1883-1955)
- 1889Hannes Kolehmainen — Finnish long-distance runner
- 1895Dolores Ibárruri — Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
- 1900Joseph Needham — British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995)
- 1901Ödön von Horváth — Austro-Hungarian writer (1901–1938)
- 1902Margaret Hamilton — American film character actress (1902–1985)
- 1905Dalton Trumbo — American screenwriter (1905–1976)
- 1906Grace Hopper — American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
- 1909Douglas Fairbanks Jr. — American actor and United States naval officer (1909–2000)
- 1911Broderick Crawford — American actor (1911–1986)
- 1915Elisabeth Schwarzkopf — German opera soprano (1915–2006)
- 1916Kirk Douglas — American actor (1916–2020)
- 1917James Rainwater — American physicist
- 1919William Lipscomb — Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist
Deaths · 60
- 638(Julian date)Sergius I of Constantinople — Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 610 to 638 (565-638)
- 748Nasr ibn Sayyar — General and governor of Khurasan (663–748)
- 1117Gertrude of Brunswick — German countess (c.1060–1117)
- 1165(Julian date)Malcolm IV of Scotland — King of Alba from 1153 to 1165
- 1437(Julian date)Sigismund — Monarch from the House of Luxemburg (1368-1437)
- 1544(Julian date)Teofilo Folengo — Italian poet and writer
- 1565(Julian date)Pius IV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565
- 1625Ubbo Emmius — Frisian historian and geographer (1547–1625)
- 1641Anthony van Dyck — Flemish Baroque artist (1599–1641)
- 1669Clement IX — pope from 1667, lived 1600-1669
- 1674Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon — English politician and historian (1609–1674)
- 1706Peter II of Portugal — King of Portugal (1648–1706)
- 1718Vincenzo Coronelli — Italian cartographer (1650–1718)
- 1761Tarabai — Queen of Chhatrapati Rajaram
- 1793Yolande de Polastron — French aristocrat and courtier (1749–1793)
- 1798Johann Reinhold Forster — German naturalist (1729–1798)
- 1830Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher — Danish physician, botanist, naturalist (1757–1830)
- 1854Almeida Garrett — Portuguese writer and politician (1799–1854)
- 1906Ferdinand Brunetière — French writer (1849–1906)
- 1907Eva Nansen — Norwegian mezzosoprano singer
- 1916Natsume Sōseki — Japanese novelist
- 1932Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain — Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
- 1932Karl Blosfeldt — Dutch photographer and sculptor (1865–1933)
- 1937Nils Gustaf Dalén — Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
- 1937Lilias Armstrong — British phonetician (1882-1937)
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