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Events from History on December 09

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1212 : Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1315 : Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
1425 : Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
1570 : Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
1625 : Netherlands & England sign military treaty
1640 : Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares
1640 : himself to be free of original sin
1658 : Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
1688 : King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1724 : Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London
1738 : Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1747 : England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1762 : British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
1783 : 1st execution at English Newgate-jail
1793 : Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1805 : Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1824 : Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
1842 : St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
1851 : 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montr‚al)
1854 : Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1861 : Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
1868 : 1st British govt of Gladstone forms
1869 : Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1878 : Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1883 : New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
1884 : Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1889 : President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
1894 : Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1900 : Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
1902 : AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
1903 : Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1905 : French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
1905 : Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
1906 : NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate
1906 : commission on the Congo
1907 : 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1907 : Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
1909 : 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
1910 : French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
1913 : Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
1913 : John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1917 : British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
1918 : French troops occupies Mainz
1922 : Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
1924 : Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
1924 : Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
1925 : AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000
1925 : Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1926 : USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1931 : Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit
1931 : Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in NYC
1931 : Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 : Spain becomes a republic
1931 : uniform numbers
1933 : Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1936 : AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
1936 : Australia all out 58 v Eng Bradman out for a duck
1939 : Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 : British assault on Banghazi Libya
1940 : British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
1940 : Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1940 : South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
1941 : 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 : 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
1941 : 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
1941 : China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941 : Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1941 : Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
1948 : UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 : Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
1951 : Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wrttemberg, W Germ
1953 : General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1953 : Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
1954 : Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad
1957 : 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1958 : Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form
1958 : anti-Communist John Birch Society
1960 : 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
1961 : "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1961 : "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1961 : SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 : Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
1962 : "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1962 : Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1963 : Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1963 : Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1965 : "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres
1965 : Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
1965 : Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
1967 : Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 : Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House
1967 : Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1968 : KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 : Dutch Antilles: govt of Petronia falls
1971 : Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1973 : "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
1973 : Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 : St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
1973 : Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
1974 : Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1974 : Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
1974 : Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1975 : Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 : Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
1978 : 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle
1978 : Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1978 : vs Milwaukee Does
1980 : 61øF in Boston at 1 AM
1981 : Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1982 : Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
1983 : Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because
1983 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 : food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
1984 : 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1984 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 : Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1984 : LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
1985 : Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
1987 : Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
1987 : Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988 : NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
1989 : "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
1990 : Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
1990 : Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
1990 : Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
1991 : 2nd Billboard Music Awards
1992 : 3rd Billboard Music Awards
1992 : Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
1992 : NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to
1992 : Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
1992 : black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season
1993 : "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
1993 : Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1994 : 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
1994 : Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
1995 : 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)

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