December 9th, 2008

Born on December 9th, 2008

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on December 9th, 2008?

December 9th, 2008

Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Illinois

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich

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, 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

Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 9th?

62

Joe Lando

American actor

*December 9th, 1961, Prairie View

59

Hape Kerkeling

German comedian

*December 9th, 1964, Recklinghausen

54

Sebastian Spence

Canadian actor

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

27

Leah Lewis

American actress (born 1996)

*December 9th, 1996, Shanghai

54

Bixente Lizarazu

French association football player

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

61

Felicity Huffman

American actress

*December 9th, 1962, Bedford

69

Jean-Claude Juncker

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

*December 9th, 1954, Redange

70

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

52

Geoff Barrow

British musician and instrumentalist for the band Portishead

*December 9th, 1971, Walton in Gordano

43

Simon Helberg

American actor and comedian

*December 9th, 1980, Los Angeles

77

Sonia Gandhi

Indian politician

*December 9th, 1946, Lusiana

25

Famke Louise

Dutch vlogger, model and singer

*December 9th, 1998, Amsterdam

23

Diāna Ņikitina

Latvian figure skater

*December 9th, 2000, Riga

29

Francisco Garrigos

Spanish judoka (1994-)

*December 9th, 1994, Móstoles

73

Joan Armatrading

British musician

*December 9th, 1950, Basseterre

103

Kirk Douglas

American stage and film actor (1916–2020)

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

89

Judi Dench

English actress (born 1934)

*December 9th, 1934, York

36

Hikaru Nakamura

American chess player

*December 9th, 1987, Hirakata

32

Choi Min-ho

South Korean rapper

*December 9th, 1991, Incheon

57

Kirsten Gillibrand

United States Senator from New York since 2009

*December 9th, 1966, Albany

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Born in 2008

15

Cecilia Loffredo

Danish actress

*July 24th, 2008, Copenhagen

15

Jackson Robert Scott

American child actor

*September 18th, 2008, Phoenix

16

Lilly Platt

British environmentalist

*April 18th, 2008, London

15

Iain Armitage

American child actor

*July 15th, 2008, Georgia

16

Emme Muñiz‎

Daughter of Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez

*February 22nd, 2008, Long Island

16

Rayssa Leal

Brazilian skateboarder

*January 4th, 2008, Imperatriz

16

Meilee Condron

American actress

*March 17th, 2008, Connecticut

15

Helena Zengel

German actress

*June 10th, 2008, Berlin

15

Harshaali Malhotra

Indian child actress

*June 3rd, 2008, Mumbai

16

Sienna Belle

Atriz e cantora canadense

*January 26th, 2008, Cambridge

15

GUSTAVOEGATOTV

Brazilian record producer

*December 11th, 2008, Iguatu

15

Sophia Baram

American pair skater

*November 24th, 2008, Beverly Hills

15

Veronika Zhilina

Russian figure skater

*May 15th, 2008, Arkhangelsk

16

Gavin Warren

American actor

*April 17th, 2008, Houston

16

Abby Ryder Fortson

American actress

*March 14th, 2008, Burbank

15

Emma Behn

Norwegian show jumper, youngest child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn

*September 29th, 2008, Lommedalen

15

Alia De Vercelli

Australian actress

*November 30th, 2008, Australia

16

Raegan Revord

American actress

*January 3rd, 2008, San Diego

15

Sky Brown

British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer

*July 7th, 2008, Miyazaki

16

Nela Lopušanová

Slovak ice and ball hockey player

*February 26th, 2008, Žilina

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Leap year

Yes: 2008 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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