What are the important events that happened on December 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 9: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 9 is the 344^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 26, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,733,702,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontatetragon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 51 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,371 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 9 Historical Events

• 1861 –
  American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1875 –
  The Massachusetts Rifle Association, “America’s Oldest Active Gun Club”, is founded.
• 1911 –
  A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
• 1917 –
  World War I: In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
• 1941 –
  World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
• 1965 –
  The 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.
• 1968 –
  NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
• 1971 –
  Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
• 1971 –
  The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
• 2000 –
  The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.

Who were born on December 9?

• 1813 –
  Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
• 1868 –
  Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
• 1871 –
  Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
• 1895 –
  Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
• 1911 –
  Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1945 –
  Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
• 1948 –
  Dennis Dunaway, American musician (Alice Cooper)
• 1972 –
  Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
• 1974 –
  Wendy Dillinger, American footballer and coach
• 1987 –
  Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer

Who died on December 9?

• 1625 –
  Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
• 1798 –
  Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
• 1858 –
  Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
• 1984 –
  Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
• 1996 –
  Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 2001 –
  Michael Carver, British soldier (b. 1915)
• 2002 –
  Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
• 2003 –
  Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
• 2007 –
  Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
• 2009 –
  Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)