Today in History
9 December
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| 1212 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king | ||
| 1315 Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) | ||
| 1392 Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria) was born | ||
| 1425 Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven | ||
| 1561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony was born | ||
| 1569 Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice) was born | ||
| 1570 Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein | ||
| 1581 Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange was born | ||
| 1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32) was born | ||
| 1608 John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost) was born | ||
| 1625 Netherlands & England sign military treaty | ||
| 1658 Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India | ||
| 1688 King James II's wife & son flee England for France | ||
| 1717 Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art) was born | ||
| 1738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia | ||
| 1747 England & Netherlands sign military treaty | ||
| 1762 British parliament accept Treaty of Paris | ||
| 1783 1st execution at English Newgate-jail | ||
| 1793 Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva | ||
| 1824 Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain | ||
| 1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published | ||
| 1868 1st British govt of Gladstone forms | ||
| 1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1900 Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession | ||
| 1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage | ||
| 1905 French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state | ||
| 1906 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo | ||
| 1907 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna | ||
| 1909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY) | ||
| 1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir | ||
| 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem | ||
| 1918 French troops occupies Mainz | ||
| 1924 Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed | ||
| 1924 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president | ||
| 1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol | ||
| 1931 Spain becomes a republic | ||
| 1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard | ||
| 1936 Australia all out 58 v Eng Bradman out for a duck | ||
| 1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki | ||
| 1940 British assault on Banghazi Libya | ||
| 1940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II | ||
| 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 China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy | ||
| 1941 Hitler orders US ships torpedoed | ||
| 1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide | ||
| 1949 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty | ||
| 1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired | ||
| 1954 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania | ||
| 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped | ||
| 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain | ||
| 1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania | ||
| 1970 Dutch Antilles: govt of Petronia falls | ||
| 1973 Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland | ||
| 1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail | ||
| 1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | ||
| 1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane | ||
| 1987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws | ||
| 1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank | ||
| 1990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland | ||
| 1992 Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia | ||
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