December 9 Historical Events

The following events took place on December 9. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1953
  Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
• 1956
  Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
• 1958
  The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
• 1960
  The first episode of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
• 1961
  Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
• 1962
  The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
• 1965
  Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
• 1965
  A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
• 1966
  Barbados joins the United Nations.
• 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).

• 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.
• 1971
  The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
• 1971
  Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
• 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.
• 1979
  The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
• 1987
  Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
• 1988
  The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
• 2003
  A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
• 2008
  The 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’s election to the Presidency.
• 2013
  At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.