December 9th, 2009

Today in History

2001:
Chris Jericho unifies the WWE Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time ever at the WWE Vengeance pay-per-view.

1990:
Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.

1945:
American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.

1888:
Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department

1872:
P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African American governor of a U.S. state