December 9

December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 22 days remaining.

Events

• 1793 - New YorkCity 's first daily newspaper , the American Minerva, is establishedby Noah Webster
• 1824 - Battle of Ayacucho - Peru defeats Spain
• 1835 - The Army of the Republic of Texas captures SanAntonio
• 1851 - First YMCA in North America established in Montreal, Quebec
• 1861 - Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created by the United States Congress
• 1872 - P. B. S.Pinchback becomes the first serving African American governorof a U.S. state
• 1888 - Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the UnitedStates War Department
• 1931 - Spain becomes a republic
• 1937 - Battle ofNanjing begins.
• 1940 - British Army attacks Italian forces in North Africa
• 1941 - China declareswar on Japan , Germany , and Italy .
• 1950 - Harry Gold sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union
• 1953 - General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be discharged from the company
• 1958 - John BirchSociety founded.
• 1961 - Adolf Eichmann foundguilty of war crimes in Israel
• 1962 - Tanganyika becomes arepublic
• 1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent
• 1982 - Norman Mayer threatens toblow up the Washington Monument , before being killed by United States Park Police .
• 1987 - First Intifada beginsin the Gaza Strip and WestBank
• 1990 - Lech Walesa becomes thefirst directly elected president of Poland .
• 1992 - Separation of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales is announced
• 1992 - USMarines land in Somalia
• 2001 - Professionalwrestler Chris Jericho unifies top titles WWE Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time ever in San Diego , California at the WWE Vengeance pay-per-view .

Births

• 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632 )
• 1608 - John Milton , english poet,writer (d. 1674 )
• 1842 - Peter Kropotkin ,Russian anarchist (d. 1921 )
• 1848 - Joel ChandlerHarris , author (d. 1908 )
• 1868 - Fritz Haber , german chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1918 .
• 1869 - HannesKolehmainen , finnish Athlete.
• 1871 - Joe Kelley , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943 )
• 1876 - Berton Churchill ,pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1940 )
• 1878 - Grand Duke Michael Romanov , Russian royalty (d. 1918 )
• 1882 - Joaquín Turina ,composer (d. 1949 )
• 1885 - Grete Wiesenthal , dancer and choreographer (d. 1970 )
• 1886 - Clarence Birdseye , frozen food pioneer (d. 1956 )
• 1889 - HannesKolehmainen , Finnish long-distance runner
• 1897 - Hermione Gingold , actress (d. 1987 )
• 1898 - Emmett Kelly , circus clown (d. 1979 )
• 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff , author (d. 1937 )
• 1901 - Ödön von Horváth , dramatist and narrator (d. 1938 )
• 1901 - Jean Mermoz , french aviator.
• 1902 - MargaretHamilton , actress (d. 1985 )
• 1905 - Dalton Trumbo , writer,member of the " Hollywood Ten " (d. 1976 )
• 1906 - Grace MurrayHopper , computer pioneer (d. 1992 )
• 1909 - DouglasFairbanks Jr. , actor (d. 2000 )
• 1911 - Lee J. Cobb , actor
• 1911 - Broderick Crawford , actor (d. 1986 )
• 1912 - Tip O'Neill , former speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994 )
• 1915 - ElisabethSchwarzkopf , opera singer
• 1916 - Kirk Douglas , actor andfilm producer
• 1922 - Redd Foxx , comedian, actor (d. 1991 )
• 1927 - Pierre Henry , composer
• 1928 - Dick Van Patten , actor
• 1929 - John Cassavetes ,actor and film director (d. 1989 )
• 1929 - Bob Hawke , twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
• 1930 - Buck Henry , actor, comedian,writer, director, producer
• 1933 - Morton DowneyJr. , talk show host (d. 2001 )
• 1934 - Dame Judi Dench actress
• 1934 - Junior Wells , musician(d. 1998 )
• 1938 - Deacon Jones , American football star
• 1941 - Beau Bridges , actor
• 1941 - Dan Hicks , musician
• 1942 - Dick Butkus , American football player
• 1943 - Rick Danko , musician ( The Band ) (d. 1999 )
• 1943 - Jim Morrison , singer ( Doors )
• 1946 - Sonia Gandhi , Indian politician and president of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party).
• 1947 - Tom Daschle , Americanpolitician
• 1947 - Steve Owens , footballplayer
• 1950 - Joan Armatrading ,singer
• 1951 - Dominique Dropsy , french soccer player
• 1952 - Michael Dorn , actor( Star Trek: The NextGeneration , Deep SpaceNine )
• 1953 - John Malkovich , actor
• 1957 - Donny Osmond ,entertainer
• 1967 - Joshua Bell , violinist
• 1968 - Kurt Angle , Olympic gold medalist in amateur wrestling , now WWE professional wrestler
• 1968 - Dave Harold , English snooker player
• 1969 - Jakob Dylan , musician
• 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu , french soccer player, world champion in 1998 .
• 1972 - Tre Cool , musician ( Green Day )
• 1972 - Fabrice Santoro , french tennis player.
• 1981 - Diya Mirza , Indian actress.

Deaths

• 1565 - Pope Pius IV
• 1669 - Pope Clement IX
• 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster ,pioneer of Negro League baseball
• 1937 - Nils GustafDalén , engineer, physicist
• 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell ,poet
• 1965 - Branch Rickey , baseball commissioner
• 1971 - Ralph Bunche ,diplomat
• 1972 - Louella Parsons ,gossip columnist
• 1996 - Mary Leakey , archeologist,anthropologist
• 1995 - Toni CadeBambara , author (b. 1939 )
• 1998 - Archie Moore , boxer
• 1998 - ShaughnessyCohen
• 2003 - PaulSimon , U.S. Senator from Illinois (75 years)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Opalia held inhonor of Ops

Recorded this date

• 1904 " Killarney " (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe )
  - Richard Jose
• 1908 " Annie Laurie " (w.William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott )
  - Corinne Morgan
• 1909 " Old Black Joe " (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster )
  - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet with
• 1919 "Colonel Bogey - March" (m. Kenneth J. Alford )
  - Columbia Band
• 1919 "O" (w. Byron Gay m. ArnoldJohnson)
  - Jack Kaufman with Ted Lewis & his Band
• 1920 "Broadway Rose" (w. Eugene West m. Martin Fried & Otis Spencer)
  - Raderman's Jazz Orchestra
• 1920 "Home Again Blues" (w.m. HarryAkst & Irving Berlin )
  - Raderman's Jazz Orchestra
• 1926 "Mandy" (w.m. Irving Berlin )
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
• 1926 "Hello! Bluebird" (w.m. Cliff Friend )
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
• 1927 "Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella" (w. Irving Kahal & Francis Wheeler m. Sammy Fain )
  - Irving Kaufman with Sam Lanin & his Orchestra
• 1927 "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" (w.m. Louis Armstrong & Lillian Hardin Armstrong )
  - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
• 1929 "If Love Were All" (w.m. Noel Coward )
  - Frank Luther with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
• 1929 "You've Got That Thing" (w.m. Cole Porter )
  - Frank Luther with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
• 1929 "You Do Something To Me" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Frank Luther with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
• 1931 "Ooh! That Kiss!" (w. MortDixon & Joe Young m. Harry Warren )
  - Tony Starr with The Dorsey Brothers & their Orchestra
• 1932 "It's Within Your Power" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel )
  - Bing Crosby
• 1932 "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing" (w. Robert Hargreaves & Stanley J. Damerell m. Tolchard Evans & H.Tilsley)
  - Al Bowlly with Lew Stone & the Monseigneur band
• 1932 "Darkness On The Delta" (w. Marty Symes & Al Neiburg m. Jerry Livingston )
  - Chick Bullock with & hisLevee Loungers
• 1932 "Underneath The Harlem Moon" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel)
  - Katherine Handy with Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
• 1932 "Pu-leeze! Mr Hemingway" (w. Walter Kent & Milton Drake m. Abner Silver )
  - Ann Suter
• 1932 "New King Porter Stomp"
  - Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
• 1932 " Try ALittle Tenderness " (w.m. HarryWoods , Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly )
  - Chick Endor & Charlie Farrell with Ben Selvin & his orchestra
• 1932 "Street Of Dreams" (w. SamM. Lewis m. Victor Young )
  - Bing Crosby
• 1935 "A Beautiful Lady In Blue" (w. Sam M. Lewis m. J. Fred Coots )
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1935 "With All My Heart" (w. Gus Kahn m. Jimmy McHugh )
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1935 "Somebody Ought To Be Told" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg)
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1935 "I Built A Dream One Day" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg )
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1935 "The Music Goes 'Round And Around" (w. "Red" Hodgson m. Edward Farley & Michael Riley)
  - Edythe Wright with Tommy Dorsey 's Clambake Seven
• 1937 "La Estrellita" (m. Maurice Ponce )
  - Xavier Cugat & his Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
• 1938 "I'm Falling In Love With Someone" (w. Rida Johnson Young m. VictorHerbert )
  - Bing Crosby & Frances Langford with Victor Young & his Concert Orchestra
• 1938 "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
  - Bing Crosby & Frances Langford with Victor Young & his Concert Orchestra
• 1940 "I Hear A Rhapsody" (w.m. George Fragos, Jack Baker & Dick Gasparre)
  - Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey
• 1940 "I Understand" (w. Kim Gannon m. Mabel Wayne)
  - Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
• 1940 "High On A Windy Hill" (w.m. Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer )
  - Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
• 1940 "Where The River Shannon Flows" (w.m. James J. Russell)
  - Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
• 1940 "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?" (w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr )
  - Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
• 1940 "De Camptown Races" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
  - Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
• 1940 "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
  - Bing Crosby w. The King's Men with O/Victor Young
• 1941 "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" (w. June Hershey m. Don Swander)
  - Perry Como with Ted Weems & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Can't Help Singing" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jerome Kern )
  - Deanna Durbin & Robert Paige with O/Edgar Fairchild
• 1946 "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" (w. Paul FrancisWebster m. Hoagy Carmichael )
  - Hoagy Carmichael & Chickadees with O/Lou Bring
• 1947 "Haunted Heart" (w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz )
  - Perry Como with O/ Russ Case
• 1947 "There Must Be A Way" (w.m. Sammy Gallop & David Saxon )
  - Perry Como with O/Russ Case and His Orchestra
• 1949 "I Can Dream, Can't I?" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain)
  - Alan Dean with CarrollGibbons & his Orchestra
• 1949 "So Ends My Search For A Dream"
  - Alan Dean with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
• 1949 "Third Man Theme" (m. AntonKaras )
  - Guy Lombardo & his Orchestra
• 1949 "The Wedding Samba" (w.m. Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small & Joseph Liebowitz)
  - Kenny Gardner with GuyLombardo & his Royal Canadians
• 1952 "I Do, I Do, I Do" (w.m. RayEvans & JayLivingston )
  - Rosemary Clooney with O/ Paul Weston
• 1952 "What Would You Do (If You Were In My Place)"
  - Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
• 1952 "Lovely Weather For Ducks" (w.m. Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
  - Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
• 1952 "Haven't Got A Worry" (w.m. Ray Evans & Jay Livingston)
  - Rosemary Clooney with O/Paul Weston
• 1953 " Young At Heart " (w. Carolyn Leigh m. Johnny Richards)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/ Nelson Riddle
• 1953 "I Could Have Told You" (w. Carl Sigman m. James Van Heusen )
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
• 1953 "Rain (Falling From The Skies)" (w.m. George Finlay & Robert Mellin)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Nelson Riddle
• 1954 "How Important Can It Be?" (w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss )
  - Joni James w. RayCharles Singers with O/David Terry
• 1955 "Young And Foolish" (w. Arnold B. Horwitt m. Albert Hague)
  - Eve Boswell with O/Reg Owen
• 1956 "Glitter And Be Gay" (w. Richard Wilbut m. LeonardBernstein )
  - Barbara Cook
• 1958 "Just In Time" (w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Jule Styne )
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
• 1958 "Something's Gotta Give" (w.m. Johnny Mercer )
  - Frank Sinatra with O/ Billy May
• 1958 "The Song Is You" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern )
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
• 1966 "Detroit City" (w.m. ]]Mel Tillis]] & Danny Dill)
  - Tom Jones with O/ Charles Blackwell

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