Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9
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The surrender of Jerusalem -
First computer mouse
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Army Day in Peru (1824) | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Tanzania (1961) | refimprove section |
| 1425 – Pope Martin V issued a papal bull establishing what later became the Catholic University of Leuven, the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. | needs rewrite, unreferenced section |
| 1824 – Forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeated a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, ending the Peruvian War of Independence. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1856 – Anglo-Persian War: Bushehr, a city on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf in present-day Iran, surrendered to occupying British forces. | refimprove |
| 1872 – P. B. S. Pinchback took office as governor of Louisiana, the first African-American governor of a U.S. state. | refimprove section |
| 1905 – Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed by the Chamber of Deputies. | Date not cited in article. |
| 1931 – The approval of the Spanish Constitution by the Constituent Cortes paved the way to the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 1946 – The Doctors' trial, the first of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, began to prosecute doctors who were allegedly involved in Nazi human experimentation during World War II. | needs more footnotes |
| 1958 – The John Birch Society, named after John Birch, an American missionary who was killed in China by communists, was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1960 – Coronation Street, the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, was first broadcast on ITV. | plot summary too long |
| 1965 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first television adaptation of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, was broadcast for the first time. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – Lech Wałęsa became the first person elected President of Poland in a direct presidential election after the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. | appears on August 14 |
| 1996 – Gwen Jacob was acquitted of indecent exposure for having taken off her shirt on a hot day, thus guaranteeing topfreedom in Ontario, Canada. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| Íñigo López de Mendoza |b|1493| | Too much unreferenced |
| Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |d|1674| | unreferenced section |
| Joan Armatrading |b|1950| | Too much uncited |
| Feroz Khan Noon |d|1970| | "References needed" orange banner |
Eligible
- 1688 – In one of two substantial military actions in England during the Glorious Revolution, forces loyal to William of Orange were decisively victorious at the Battle of Reading.
- 1822 – In a memoir read to the French Academy of Sciences, Augustin-Jean Fresnel coined the terms linear, circular, and elliptical polarization, and reported a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.
- 1888 – The first edition of the Argosy magazine was published under the title The Golden Argosy.
- 1892 – The English association football club Newcastle United was founded by the merger of Newcastle East End and West End.
- 1897 – French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
- 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, killed 84 miners despite a well-organized rescue effort led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 1917 – First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered the city to British forces (pictured).
- 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and obligates its signatories to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.
- 1961 – Tanganyika Territory gained independence from Britain before becoming part of Tanzania three years later.
- 1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse (pictured), hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the computer system NLS.
- 1969 – U.S. secretary of state William P. Rogers proposed a plan, later called the Rogers Plan, for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt's and Jordan's acceptance of the plan over Palestine Liberation Organization objections led to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
- 1981 – Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner; his subsequent conviction and death sentence generated controversy in the United States.
- 2008 – Rod Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, was arrested on corruption charges, including for attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by president-elect Barack Obama.
- 2016 – Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached, marking the culmination of the country's political scandal.
- 2017 – Same-sex marriage in Australia became legal as the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 came into effect.
- Born/died this day: | Gertrude of Brunswick |b|1117| Joseph Desha |b|1768|Golding Bird |b|1814| Fritz Haber |b|1868| Joe Kelley |b|1871| Natsume Sōseki|d|1903| Alister Murdoch |b|1912|Lilias Armstrong |d|1937| Giacomo dalla Torre |b|1944| Denise Phua |b|1959| Gideon Sa'ar |b|1966| Eliane Morissens |d|2006|
December 9: International Anti-Corruption Day
Electron microscope picture of smallpox
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: After their loss in the Battle of Great Bridge, British authorities were forced to evacuate from the Colony of Virginia.
- 1940 – Second World War: British and Commonwealth forces began Operation Compass, the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert campaign.
- 1965 – A large, brilliant fireball was seen by thousands in midwestern North America before crash landing in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox (pictured), making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated.
- 1990 – In Serbia's first multi-party election, Slobodan Milošević won the presidential election and the Socialist Party of Serbia won the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
- Nasr ibn Sayyar (d. 748)
- Isabelle Urquhart (b. 1865)
- Grete Wiesenthal (b. 1885)
- McKayla Maroney (b. 1995)
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