9 December

The 9t o December is the 343t day o the year (344t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 22 days bidin.

Events
 1892 - Newcastle United F.C. is foondit.
 1905 - Fraunce separates kirk an state.
 1917 - Warld War I: Breetish troops captur then-Ottoman Jerusalem.
 1931 - The Seicont Spainyie Republic is creatit.
 1941 - Warld War II: The Republic o Cheenae, Cuba, Guatemala, Republic o Korea an the Philippines declare war on Japan.
 1946 - The German state o Lawer Saxony is creatit.
 1961 - Tanganyika gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick. It later jyns wi Zanzibar tae form Tanzanie.
 1962 - "Petrified Forest Naitional Pairk" is creatit in Arizona.
 1966 - Barbados jyns the Unitit Naitions.
 1968 - Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer moose an hypertext.
 1971 - The Unitit Arab Emirates join the Unitit Naitions.
 1979 - The eradication o the disease Smaapox is confirmed.
 1990 - Lech Walesa is electit Preses o Poland.
 1992 - The separation o Charles, Prince o Wales an Diana, Princess o Wales is propaled.
 2005 - Lunnon's Routemaster double-decker bus servis ends.
 2005 - The draw is made for the 2006 FIFA Warld Cup in Germany.
 2009 - Carwyn Jones becomes First Meenister o Wales.
 2010 - Estonie joins the OECD.
 2016 - Sooth Korean Preses Park Geun-hye is impeached bi the kintra's Naitional Assembly.
 2019 - The eruption o the Whakaari/White Island volcanae in New Zealand kills 22 fowk.
 2019 - A Chilean plane wi 38 fowk on baird crashes en-route tae Antarcticae.

Births
 1608 - John Milton, Inglis poet (d. 1674)
 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Roushie anarchist an writer (d. 1921)
 1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist (d. 1934)
 1906 - Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (d. 1992)
 1912 - Tip O'Neill, American politeecian (d. 1994)
 1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor (d. 2020)
 1917 - James Rainwater, American pheesicist (d. 1986)
 1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Preses o Italy (d. 2016)
 1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American phesicist (d. 1999)
 1929 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 2019)
 1934 - Dame Judi Dench, Inglis actress
 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
 1942 - Billy Bremner, Scots fitbawer (d. 1997)
 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politeecian
 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
 1954 - Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg politeecian
 1960 - Caroline Lucas, Inglis politeecian
 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
 1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politeecian
 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French fitbawer
 1972 - Tré Cool, German-American drummer
 1977 - Imogen Heap, Inglis sangster-sangwriter an componer
 1980 - Lee Mair, Scots fitbawer
 1981 - Gemma Fay, Scots fitbawer
 1981 - Mardy Fish, American tennis player
 1996 - Cameron Mackay, Scots fitbawer

Daiths
 1165 - Malcolm IV o Scotland (b. 1141)
 1437 - Sigismund, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
 1565 - Pape Pius IV (b. 1499)
 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish penter (b. 1599)
 1669 - Pape Clement XI (b. 1600)
 1891 - Andrew Ramsay, Scots geologist (b. 1814)
 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (b. 1904)
 1996 - Mary Leakey, Inglis archaeologist an anthropologist (b. 1913)
 1996 - Alain Poher, French politeecian (b. 1909)
 2012 - Sir Patrick Moore, Inglis astronomer, writer an broadcaster (b. 1923)
 2018 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astropheesicist (b. 1931)
 2019 - Marie Fredriksson, Swadish sangster (b. 1958)
 2020 - Paolo Rossi, Italian fitbawer (b. 1956)

Halidays
 Naitional Day (Tanzanie)
 Anna's Day (Swaden, Finland)
 Airmed Forces Day (Peru)
 Navy Day (Sri Lanka)
 Internaitional Anti-Corruption Day

Category:Days o the year