December 09

Sunday 09, 2001:

Chris Jericho unifies the WWE Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time ever at the WWE Vengeance pay-per-view.

Wednesday 09, 1992:

US Marines land in Somalia

Sunday 09, 1990:

Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.

Wednesday 09, 1987:

The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank

Thursday 09, 1982:

Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.

Sunday 09, 1962:

Tanganyika becomes a republic

Saturday 09, 1961:

Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel

Friday 09, 1960:

Coronation Street first airs on televisions across the United Kingdom.

Tuesday 09, 1958:

John Birch Society founded.

Wednesday 09, 1953:

General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be discharged from the company

Saturday 09, 1950:

Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union

Monday 09, 1946:

Doctors' Trial: The trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity began for medical researchers involved in the horrors of Nazi human experimentation .

Sunday 09, 1945:

American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.

Tuesday 09, 1941:

China and Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Monday 09, 1940:

British Army attacks Italian forces in North Africa

Thursday 09, 1937:

Battle of Nanjing begins.

Wednesday 09, 1931:

Spain becomes a republic

Saturday 09, 1905:

Law separating church and state passed in France

Thursday 09, 1897:

Marguerite Durand, a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette, founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde.

Sunday 09, 1888:

Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department

Monday 09, 1872:

P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African American governor of a U.S. state

Monday 09, 1861:

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created by the U.S. Congress

Tuesday 09, 1856:

Bushehr surrenders to the British.

Tuesday 09, 1851:

First YMCA in North America established in Montreal, Quebec

Wednesday 09, 1835:

The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio

Thursday 09, 1824:

Peru defeats Spain

Monday 09, 1793:

New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster

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