Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
December 9
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 1992 | U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country. | |
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Born on December 9 |
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| 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). | |
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