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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 26, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,420,640 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 70 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 4,736 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 9 Historical Events
- 1856 –The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
- 1888 –Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
- 1937 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
- 1941 –World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
- 1956 –Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
- 1961 –Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
- 1962 –The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- 1969 –United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
- 1971 –The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
- 1979 –The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
Who were born on December 9?
- 1787 –John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
- 1926 –Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1946 –Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
- 1960 –Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
- 1966 –Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, former soccer player
- 1969 –Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
- 1970 –Lance Krall, American comedian
- 1972 –Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
- 1976 –Chris Booker, American baseball player
- 1982 –Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
Who died on December 9?
- 1718 –Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopaedist (b. 1650)
- 1941 –Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
- 1967 –Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer (b. 1898)
- 1972 –Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
- 1975 –William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
- 1984 –Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
- 1992 –Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1995 –Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. 1907)
- 1996 –Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
- 2009 –Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
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