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December 9 Historical Events

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

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  • 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.

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