December 9th, 2023

Born on December 9th, 2023

Age in days, weeks and months
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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

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

69

Jean-Claude Juncker

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

*December 9th, 1954, Redange

61

Felicity Huffman

American actress

*December 9th, 1962, Bedford

54

Bixente Lizarazu

French association football player

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

70

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

27

Leah Lewis

American actress (born 1996)

*December 9th, 1996, Shanghai

52

Geoff Barrow

British musician and instrumentalist for the band Portishead

*December 9th, 1971, Walton in Gordano

77

Sonia Gandhi

Indian politician

*December 9th, 1946, Lusiana

43

Simon Helberg

American actor and comedian

*December 9th, 1980, Los Angeles

103

Kirk Douglas

American stage and film actor (1916–2020)

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

73

Joan Armatrading

British musician

*December 9th, 1950, Basseterre

89

Judi Dench

English actress (born 1934)

*December 9th, 1934, York

65

John Milton

English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

*December 9th, 1608, Cheapside †November 8th, 1674, London

25

Famke Louise

Dutch vlogger, model and singer

*December 9th, 1998, Amsterdam

36

Hikaru Nakamura

American chess player

*December 9th, 1987, Hirakata

29

Francisco Garrigos

Spanish judoka (1994-)

*December 9th, 1994, Móstoles

57

Kirsten Gillibrand

United States Senator from New York since 2009

*December 9th, 1966, Albany

71

Joe McGinniss

American writer (1942-2014)

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

32

Choi Min-ho

South Korean rapper

*December 9th, 1991, Incheon

23

Diāna Ņikitina

Latvian figure skater

*December 9th, 2000, Riga

49

Ernst Ogris

Austrian footballer (1967-2017)

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

43

Verónika Mendoza

Peruvian politician left wing party

*December 9th, 1980, Cuzco

35

Kwadwo Asamoah

Ghanaian footballer

*December 9th, 1988, Accra

32

Elmer Booth

American actor (1882-1915)

*December 9th, 1882, Los Angeles †June 16th, 1915, Los Angeles

65

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize

*December 9th, 1868, Wrocław †January 29th, 1934, Basel

85

Léon Xanrof

French playwright and songwriter

*December 9th, 1867, 18th arrondissement of Paris †May 17th, 1953, Paris

45

Jesse Metcalfe

American actor

*December 9th, 1978, Carmel Valley Village

89

Elsie Hillman

American philanthropist and republican activist

*December 9th, 1925, Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania †August 4th, 2015, Pittsburgh

53

Anna Gavalda

French author

*December 9th, 1970, Boulogne-Billancourt

55

Kurt Angle

American professional wrestler and 1996 Olympic gold medalist

*December 9th, 1968, Mt. Lebanon

68

James Rainwater

American physicist

*December 9th, 1917, Council †May 31st, 1986, New York City

33

Bora Cengiz

Turkish actor

*December 9th, 1990, Istanbul

45

Gastón Gaudio

Argentine tennis player

*December 9th, 1978, Buenos Aires

53

Djalminha

Brazilian association football player

*December 9th, 1970, Santos

59

Michael Müller

German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin

*December 9th, 1964, West Berlin

28

McKayla Maroney

American artistic gymnast

*December 9th, 1995, Long Beach

60

Empress Masako

Empress consort of Japan

*December 9th, 1963, Toranomon Hospital

24

Aitch

British rapper

*December 9th, 1999, Manchester

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