Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
139321December 9Death2013 – Kees Brusse, Dutch actor and director (b. 1925)
139322December 9Death2013 – Shane del Rosario, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1983)
139323December 9Death2013 – John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1909)
139324December 9Death2013 – Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930)
139325December 9Death2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
139326December 9Death2013 – John Wilbur, American football player (b. 1943)
139327December 9Death2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch, Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933)
139328December 9Death2014 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (b. 1924)
139329December 9Death2014 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923)
139330December 9Death2014 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 (b. 1937)
139331December 9Death2014 – Blagoje Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
139332December 9Death2014 – Jože Toporišič, Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926)
139333December 9Holiday and observanceAnna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland)
139334December 9Holiday and observanceChristian Feast Day:Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Orthodox Church)Juan DiegoLeocadiaNectarius of AuvergnePeter FourierDecember 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
139335December 9Holiday and observanceIndependence Day, celebrate the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961. (Tanzania)
139336December 9Holiday and observanceInternational Anti-Corruption Day (International)
139337December 9Holiday and observanceNational Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day. (Antigua and Barbuda)
139338December 9Holiday and observanceYuri's Day in the Autumn (Russian Orthodox Church)
139339December 10Event1041 – The son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
139340December 10Event1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
139341December 10Event1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
139342December 10Event1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
139343December 10Event1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
139344December 10Event1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
139345December 10Event1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
139346December 10Event1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
139347December 10Event1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
139348December 10Event1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
139349December 10Event1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
139350December 10Event1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.

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