09 December History


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  • 536    -    Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome.
  • 1861    -    The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War.
  • 1863    -    Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio.
  • 1867    -    The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver.
  • 1872    -    P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana.
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  • 1900    -    The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger's pleas for aid in South Africa against the British.
  • 1908    -    A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13.
  • 1917    -    The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops.
  • 1940    -    The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt.
  • 1941    -    Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war.
  • 1948    -    The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan.
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  • 1949    -    The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem.
  • 1950    -    President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China.
  • 1950    -    Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II.
  • 1955    -    Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title.
  • 1960    -    The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war.
  • 1990    -    Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.
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  • 1992    -    U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country.

  • 09 December Birthdays

  • 1608    -    John Milton, British writer and poet (Paradise Lost).
  • 1809    -    William Barret Travis, commander of the Texas troops at the battle of the Alamo.
  • 1848    -    Joel Chandler Harris, writer, creator of the Uncle Remus tales.
  • 1899    -    Jean de Brunhoff, illustrator and author, creator of the Babar series of books.
  • 1906    -    Grace Hopper, mathematician and computer pioneer.
  • 1912    -    Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, speaker of the House of Representatives.
  • 1918    -    Kirk Douglas, American actor (Spartacus).