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 344th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 26, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,895,040 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 ‘trihectatetracontatetragon’ day.
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 51 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 4,371 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.
- 1905 –In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 1911 –A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 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.
- 1958 –The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
- 1961 –Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
- 1962 –The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- 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.
- 2000 –The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.
Who were born on December 9?
- 1447 –Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
- 1508 –Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
- 1561 –Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
- 1571 –Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
- 1806 –Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
- 1902 –Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1926 –Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1938 –David Houston, American country singer (d. 1993)
- 1947 –Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1948 –Dennis Dunaway, American musician (Alice Cooper)
Who died on December 9?
- 1437 –Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
- 1674 –Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
- 1932 –Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Bangladeshi writer and social worker (b. 1880)
- 1970 –Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician (b. 1893)
- 1975 –William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896)
- 1995 –Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (b. 1907)
- 1998 –Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
- 2005 –György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
- 2007 –Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (b. 1918)
- 2010 –James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
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