December 9th, 1954

Born on December 9th, 1954

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What 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.

December 9th, 1892

The English association football club Newcastle United was founded by the merger of Newcastle East End and West End.

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

Born on December 9th, 1954

69

Jean-Claude Juncker

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

*December 9th, 1954, Redange

69

Mary Fallin

27th Governor of Oklahoma

*December 9th, 1954, Warrensburg

69

Henk ten Cate

Dutch association football player and manager

*December 9th, 1954, Amsterdam

69

Herman Finkers

Dutch comedian

*December 9th, 1954, Almelo

69

Kip Hanrahan

American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist

*December 9th, 1954, The Bronx

69

Liz Crowther

British actress

*December 9th, 1954, Isleworth

66

John Paragon

American actor

*December 9th, 1954, Anchorage †April 3rd, 2021, Palm Springs

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Who's birthday is on December 9th?

62

Joe Lando

American actor

*December 9th, 1961, Prairie View

70

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

59

Hape Kerkeling

German comedian

*December 9th, 1964, Recklinghausen

54

Sebastian Spence

Canadian actor

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

61

Felicity Huffman

American actress

*December 9th, 1962, Bedford

73

Joan Armatrading

British musician

*December 9th, 1950, Basseterre

77

Sonia Gandhi

Indian politician

*December 9th, 1946, Lusiana

54

Bixente Lizarazu

French association football player

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

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

68

Anne Haigis

German singer

*December 9th, 1955, Rottweil

68

Marc Anderson

American percussionist

*December 9th, 1955, Austin

43

Simon Helberg

American actor and comedian

*December 9th, 1980, Los Angeles

49

Ernst Ogris

Austrian footballer (1967-2017)

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

71

Michael Dorn

American actor

*December 9th, 1952, Luling

67

Henriette Reker

German lawyer and independent politician; first female Lord Mayor of Cologne

*December 9th, 1956, Cologne

71

Liaqat Baloch

Pakistani politician

*December 9th, 1952, Muzaffargarh

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Born in 1954

70

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

70

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

70

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

70

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

69

Emir Kusturica

Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

70

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

70

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

70

Robert Hochbaum

German politician

*June 5th, 1954, Pforzheim

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