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What are the important events that happened on December 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 9 is the 343rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 26, 2021 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,316,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontatrigon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,275 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 9 Historical Events
- 1425 –The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
- 1851 –The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1946 –The “Subsequent Nuremberg Trials” begin with the “Doctors’ Trial”, prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
- 1946 –The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
- 1981 –Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become “perhaps the world’s best known death-row inmate” before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.
Who were born on December 9?
- 1579 –Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
- 1837 –Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
- 1925 –Dina Merrill, American actress
- 1942 –Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1958 –Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
Who died on December 9?
- 748 –Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Ummayad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
- 1706 –King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
- 1798 –Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
- 1971 –Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
- 2008 –Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
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