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