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 343^rd 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, 1,765,238,400 seconds 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.

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.

December 9 Historical Events

• 1793 –
  New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
• 1824 –
  Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
• 1835 –
  The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
• 1897 –
  Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
• 1905 –
  In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
• 1922 –
  Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
• 1941 –
  World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
• 1958 –
  The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
• 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.
• 2008 –
  The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency.

Who were born on December 9?

• 1579 –
  Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
• 1806 –
  Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
• 1891 –
  Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
• 1911 –
  Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
• 1961 –
  Joe Lando, American actor
• 1965 –
  Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant, Winner of Survivor: Marquesas
• 1967 –
  Jason Dozzell, English footballer
• 1977 –
  Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
• 1977 –
  Shayne Graham, American football player
• 1983 –
  Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer

Who died on December 9?

• 1798 –
  Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
• 1935 –
  Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor (b. 1886)
• 1943 –
  Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (b. 1870)
• 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)
• 1995 –
  Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
• 2003 –
  Paul Simon, American politician (b. 1928)
• 2005 –
  Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
• 2010 –
  James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)