9 December
Notable Births
Ni-Ki
b. 2005
Japanese singer (born 2005)
Yuna (singer, born 2003)
b. 2003
South Korean rapper and singer (born 2003)
Diāna Ņikitina
b. 2000
Latvian figure skater
Harvey Barnes
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Mackenzie Blackwood
b. 1996
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Kyle Connor
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
AleXa
b. 1996
American singer (born 1996)
Simone Fontecchio
b. 1995
Italian basketball player (born 1995)
McKayla Maroney
b. 1995
American artistic gymnast (born 1995)
Kelly Oubre Jr.
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Ryan Lomberg
b. 1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Mark McMorris
b. 1993
Canadian snowboarder (born 1993)
Laura Smulders
b. 1993
Dutch racing cyclist (born 1993)
Langston Galloway
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Choi Min-ho
b. 1991
South Korean entertainer (born 1991)
Eric Bledsoe
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Kwadwo Asamoah
b. 1988
Ghanaian footballer (born 1988)
Kostas Giannoulis
b. 1987
Greek footballer
Gerald Henderson Jr.
b. 1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Mat Latos
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
Nikki Giovanni
d. 2024
American poet, writer and activist (1943–2024)
Jovit Baldivino
d. 2022
Filipino singer and actor (1993–2022)
Speedy Duncan
d. 2021
American football player (1942–2021)
Demaryius Thomas
d. 2021
American football player (1987–2021)
Soshana Afroyim
d. 2015
Austrian painter (1927–2015)
Norman Breslow
d. 2015
American statistician and medical researcher
Juvenal Juvêncio
d. 2015
Brazilian lawyer and football manager (1934–2015)
Julio Terrazas Sandoval
d. 2015
Sacvan Bercovitch
d. 2014
Canadian literary and cultural critic
Jorge María Mejía
d. 2014
Argentine cardinal
Mary Ann Mobley
d. 2014
American actress (1937–2014)
Jože Toporišič
d. 2014
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
d. 2013
Polish pianist (1930–2013)
Eleanor Parker
d. 2013
American actress (1922–2013)
Béla Nagy Abodi
d. 2012
Hungarian painter and professor
Patrick Moore
d. 2012
English astronomer, broadcaster and writer (1923–2012)
Alex Moulton
d. 2012
English engineer (1920–2012)
Jenni Rivera
d. 2012
American singer (1969–2012)
Charles Rosen
d. 2012
American pianist and writer on music
Norman Joseph Woodland
d. 2012
American inventor
On This Day in History
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2021
Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.
Central America
2019
A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
Whakaari / White Island
2017
The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017
2016
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
Park Geun-hye
2016
At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
Madagali
2013
At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
2013 Bintaro train crash
2012
A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people including singer Jenni Rivera.
2012 Nuevo León Learjet 25 crash
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.
Governor of Illinois
2006
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-116 carrying the P5 truss segment of the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle program
2003
A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2003 Red Square bombing
1996
Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.
Female toplessness in Canada
1992
American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
Somalia
1987
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
1979
The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
Smallpox
1973
British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
Sunningdale Agreement
1971
Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
India–Pakistan war of 1971
1969
U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
William P. Rogers
1968
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
Douglas Engelbart
1965
Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
Kecksburg UFO incident
1961
Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
Tanganyika (1961–1964)