December 9th, 1956

Born on December 9th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 9th, 1956?

December 9th, 1956

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_810-9

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, 1956

67

Henriette Reker

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

*December 9th, 1956, Cologne

67

Jean-Pierre Thiollet

French writer

*December 9th, 1956, Poitiers

61

Nicolae Tilihoi

Romanian association football player (1956-2018)

*December 9th, 1956, Brăila †March 25th, 2018, Craiova

67

Mohammed Saeme

Physician

*December 9th, 1956, Fez

67

Sylvia

American recording artist; country singer

*December 9th, 1956, Kokomo

67

Ernesto Sanz

Argentine politician

*December 9th, 1956, San Rafael

67

Oscar Garré

Argentine footballer and manager

*December 9th, 1956, Valentín Alsina

37

Baruch Goldstein

American-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)

*December 9th, 1956, Brooklyn †February 25th, 1994, Hebron

67

Ann Hood

Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

*December 9th, 1956, West Warwick

52

Antony Alda

American actor (1956-2009)

*December 9th, 1956, France †July 3rd, 2009, Los Angeles

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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

70

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

61

Felicity Huffman

American actress

*December 9th, 1962, Bedford

54

Sebastian Spence

Canadian actor

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

73

Joan Armatrading

British musician

*December 9th, 1950, Basseterre

54

Bixente Lizarazu

French association football player

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

77

Sonia Gandhi

Indian politician

*December 9th, 1946, Lusiana

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

68

Anne Haigis

German singer

*December 9th, 1955, Rottweil

57

Kirsten Gillibrand

United States Senator from New York since 2009

*December 9th, 1966, Albany

66

José Luis Gil

Spanish actor

*December 9th, 1957, Zaragoza

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

69

Mary Fallin

27th Governor of Oklahoma

*December 9th, 1954, Warrensburg

68

Otis Birdsong

American basketball player

*December 9th, 1955, Winter Haven

49

Ernst Ogris

Austrian footballer (1967-2017)

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

68

Marc Anderson

American percussionist

*December 9th, 1955, Austin

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Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

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Leap year

Yes: 1956 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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