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Events on the 9th of December in history

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09 Dec 0480 Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.
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09 Dec 0536 Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten
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09 Dec 0536 Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee the capital.
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09 Dec 0656 Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
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09 Dec 0730 Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami.
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09 Dec 1315 Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
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09 Dec 1425 Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
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09 Dec 1425 The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
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09 Dec 1531 The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
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09 Dec 1570 Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
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09 Dec 1625 Netherlands and England sign military treaty
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09 Dec 1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
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09 Dec 1658 Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
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09 Dec 1738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
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09 Dec 1747 England and Netherlands sign military treaty
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09 Dec 1762 British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
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09 Dec 1775 American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
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09 Dec 1783 1st execution at English Newgate-jail
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09 Dec 1793 New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
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09 Dec 1805 Comet 3D / 1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
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09 Dec 1824 Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
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09 Dec 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.
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09 Dec 1835 Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
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09 Dec 1851 The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
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09 Dec 1856 The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
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09 Dec 1861 Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
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09 Dec 1861 American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
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09 Dec 1868 1st British government of Gladstone forms
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09 Dec 1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
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09 Dec 1872 In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
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09 Dec 1875 The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is founded.
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09 Dec 1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500
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09 Dec 1883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
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09 Dec 1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
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09 Dec 1888 Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
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09 Dec 1889 President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
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09 Dec 1894 Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
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09 Dec 1897 Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
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09 Dec 1900 Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
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09 Dec 1902 AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in New York
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09 Dec 1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
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09 Dec 1905 French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state
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09 Dec 1905 In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
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09 Dec 1906 New York American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
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09 Dec 1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
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09 Dec 1907 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
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09 Dec 1909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
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09 Dec 1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
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09 Dec 1911 A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
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09 Dec 1913 Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
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09 Dec 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
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09 Dec 1917 World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
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09 Dec 1918 French troops occupies Mainz
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09 Dec 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish President
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09 Dec 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
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09 Dec 1924 Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed
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09 Dec 1924 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian President
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09 Dec 1925 Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000
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09 Dec 1926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
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09 Dec 1931 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
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09 Dec 1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
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09 Dec 1931 Spain becomes a Republic
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09 Dec 1931 The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
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09 Dec 1933 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3
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09 Dec 1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
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09 Dec 1934 New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
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09 Dec 1935 Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
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09 Dec 1935 The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
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09 Dec 1936 AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis
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09 Dec 1936 Australia all out 58 vs. Eng Bradman out for a duck
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09 Dec 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
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09 Dec 1939 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
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09 Dec 1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki
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09 Dec 1940 British assault on Banghazi Libya
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09 Dec 1940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WWII
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09 Dec 1940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
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09 Dec 1940 World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
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09 Dec 1941 1st US WWII bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
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09 Dec 1941 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
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09 Dec 1941 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
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09 Dec 1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy
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09 Dec 1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
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09 Dec 1941 Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
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09 Dec 1941 World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
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09 Dec 1941 World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
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09 Dec 1946 The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
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09 Dec 1946 The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
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09 Dec 1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
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09 Dec 1949 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
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09 Dec 1950 Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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09 Dec 1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
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09 Dec 1953 Montreal Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty minutes
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09 Dec 1953 Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
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09 Dec 1954 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Academy
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09 Dec 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
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09 Dec 1957 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
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09 Dec 1958 Robert H W Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
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09 Dec 1958 The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
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09 Dec 1960 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
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09 Dec 1960 The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
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09 Dec 1961 "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 performances
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09 Dec 1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
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09 Dec 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
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09 Dec 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
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09 Dec 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
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09 Dec 1962 Tanganyika becomes a Republic within British Commonwealth
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09 Dec 1962 The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
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09 Dec 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
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09 Dec 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
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09 Dec 1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas, " premieres
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09 Dec 1965 Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
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09 Dec 1965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as President of Presidium
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09 Dec 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
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09 Dec 1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
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09 Dec 1966 Barbados joins the United Nations.
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09 Dec 1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
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09 Dec 1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes President (dictator) of Romania
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09 Dec 1968 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Dec 1968 Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
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09 Dec 1969 U.S. 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.
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09 Dec 1970 Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
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09 Dec 1971 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
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09 Dec 1971 The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
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09 Dec 1971 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
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09 Dec 1973 "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
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09 Dec 1973 Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
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09 Dec 1973 St. Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs. Atlanta Falcons
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09 Dec 1973 Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
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09 Dec 1973 British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
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09 Dec 1974 Dow Jones index hits 570.01
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09 Dec 1974 Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
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09 Dec 1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
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09 Dec 1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City
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09 Dec 1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
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09 Dec 1979 Murle Breer / Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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09 Dec 1979 The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
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09 Dec 1981 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
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09 Dec 1982 Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce
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09 Dec 1984 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
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09 Dec 1984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
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09 Dec 1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
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09 Dec 1984 LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
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09 Dec 1984 Vicki Alvarez / Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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09 Dec 1985 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
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09 Dec 1985 Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
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09 Dec 1985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
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09 Dec 1987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
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09 Dec 1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
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09 Dec 1987 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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09 Dec 1988 New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with Madison Square Garden for $500M
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09 Dec 1988 The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
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09 Dec 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
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09 Dec 1990 Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
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09 Dec 1990 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
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09 Dec 1990 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
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09 Dec 1990 Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
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09 Dec 1990 NFL New York Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
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09 Dec 1992 3rd Billboard Music Awards
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09 Dec 1992 Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
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09 Dec 1992 New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season
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09 Dec 1992 Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
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09 Dec 1993 "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
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09 Dec 1993 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
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09 Dec 1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
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09 Dec 1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
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09 Dec 1995 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
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09 Dec 2003 A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
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09 Dec 2008 The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.
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09 Dec 2013 At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
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