December 9th, 1953

Born on December 9th, 1953

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What happened on December 9th, 1953?

December 9th, 1953

Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

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What else happened on December 9th?

December 9th, 2016

Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached, marking the culmination of the country's political scandal.

December 9th, 2008

Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by then-President-elect Barack Obama.

December 9th, 1981

Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner; his subsequent conviction and death sentence generated controversy in the United States.

December 9th, 1979

A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated.

December 9th, 1969

U.S. secretary of state William P. Rogers proposed a plan, later called the Rogers Plan, for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt's and Jordan's acceptance of the plan over Palestine Liberation Organization objections led to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

December 9th, 1968

Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse (pictured), hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

December 9th, 1965

A large, brilliant fireball was seen by thousands in midwestern North America before crash landing in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

December 9th, 1961

Tanganyika Territory gained independence from Britain before becoming part of Tanzania three years later.

December 9th, 1948

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and advises its signatories to prevent and punish such actions.

December 9th, 1940

Second World War: British and Commonwealth forces began Operation Compass, the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert campaign.

December 9th, 1917

First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of Jerusalem, surrendered the city to British forces (pictured).

December 9th, 1911

A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, killed 84 miners despite a well-organized rescue effort led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

December 9th, 1905

Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed by the Chamber of Deputies.

December 9th, 1897

French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 9th

Born on December 9th, 1953

70

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

70

World B. Free

American former professional basketball player

*December 9th, 1953, Atlanta

70

Cornelis de Bondt

Dutch composer

*December 9th, 1953, The Hague

36

Guillermo Garcia Gonzales

Cuban chess grandmaster

*December 9th, 1953, Santa Clara †October 26th, 1990, Havana

44

Nicolin Kunz

Austrian actress

*December 9th, 1953, Vienna †December 31st, 1997, Carinthia

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Who's birthday is on December 9th?

62

Joe Lando

American actor

*December 9th, 1961, Prairie View

69

Jean-Claude Juncker

Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1995-2013) and President of the European Commission (2014-2019)

*December 9th, 1954, Redange

59

Hape Kerkeling

German comedian

*December 9th, 1964, Recklinghausen

73

Joan Armatrading

British musician

*December 9th, 1950, Basseterre

54

Sebastian Spence

Canadian actor

*December 9th, 1969, St. John's

61

Felicity Huffman

American actress

*December 9th, 1962, Bedford

77

Sonia Gandhi

Indian politician

*December 9th, 1946, Lusiana

54

Bixente Lizarazu

French association football player

*December 9th, 1969, Saint-Jean-de-Luz

71

Michael Dorn

American actor

*December 9th, 1952, Luling

69

Mary Fallin

27th Governor of Oklahoma

*December 9th, 1954, Warrensburg

52

Geoff Barrow

British musician and instrumentalist for the band Portishead

*December 9th, 1971, Walton in Gordano

89

Judi Dench

English actress (born 1934)

*December 9th, 1934, York

71

Joe McGinniss

American writer (1942-2014)

*December 9th, 1942, New York City †March 10th, 2014, Worcester

103

Kirk Douglas

American stage and film actor (1916–2020)

*December 9th, 1916, Amsterdam †February 5th, 2020, Beverly Hills

57

Kirsten Gillibrand

United States Senator from New York since 2009

*December 9th, 1966, Albany

71

Liaqat Baloch

Pakistani politician

*December 9th, 1952, Muzaffargarh

69

Herman Finkers

Dutch comedian

*December 9th, 1954, Almelo

43

Simon Helberg

American actor and comedian

*December 9th, 1980, Los Angeles

68

Anne Haigis

German singer

*December 9th, 1955, Rottweil

49

Ernst Ogris

Austrian footballer (1967-2017)

*December 9th, 1967, Vienna †March 29th, 2017, Vienna

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Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*March 26th, 1953, Duisburg

71

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

71

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

71

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

71

Gernot Rohr

German-French association football player and manager

*June 28th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

71

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, 16th arrondissement of Paris

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

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