On this day in History - Dec. 09

• 1565 - Pope Pius IV , died [b. 31.March.1499]
• 1669 - Pope Clement IX died [b. 28.January.1600]
• 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden born [d. 1632]
• 1608 - John Milton was born in London, one of the greatest poets of the English language [d. 1674]
• 1641 - Anton Van Dyck died in London; Flemish portrait-painter
• 1824 - Battle of Ayacucho - Peru defeats Spain
• 1854 Almeida Garrett morre em Lisboa, escritor. Foi também jornalista, deputado e Ministro [n. 1799 no Porto ]
• 1854 - 150 years ago, Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
• 1898 - Nasce em Cuiabá, Maria de Arruda Müller, educadora e poetisa brasileira (m. 4 Dez 2003).
• 1900 - En France les femmes sont autorisées à exercer la profession d'avocat.
• 1907 - Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Del., post office; proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.
• 1913 - O ministro dos negócios estrangeiros alemão, fazendo no Reichtag o discurso anual sobre política externa, torna pública a existência de negociações com a Grã-Bretanha sobre a divisão das colónias portuguesas pelas duas potências e prevê o êxito das mesmas
• 1916 - Kirk Douglas was born, actor
• 1917 - Forças turcas se rendem e o exercito inglês, liderado pelo General Allenby, ocupa Jerusalém
• 1925 - Ernest Gellner, nascimento de , antropólogo, sociólogo, filósofo.
• 1929 - John Cassavetes, was born, actor and film director (d. 1989)
• 1929 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
• 1929 - Ginger Rogers makes Broadway debut
• 1931 - Spain becomes a republic.
• 1937 - Battle of Nanjing begins.
• 1940 - British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II.
• 1941 - China declared war against Japan, Germany, and Italy.
• 1947 - Steve Owens, football player
• 1948 - A Assembleia Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) aprovou por unanimidade a Convenção para a Prevenção e o Castigo do Crime de Genocídio. A convenção entrou em funcionamento em 12 de Janeiro de 1951, quando foi ratificada por 20 países.
• 1942 - The Aram Khachaturian ballet "Gayane," featuring the surging "Saber Dance," was first performed by the Kirov Ballet.
• 1949 -O governo nacionalista chinês, liderado por Chiang Kai-shek, se instala na Ilha de Formosa.
• 1950 - Joan Armatrading, born, singer
• 1953 - General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be discharged from the company
• 1953 - John Malkovich, born, actor
• 1957 - Donny Osmond, born, entertainer
• 1958 -The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed in Indianopolis
  1961 - Tanganyika (now Tanzania) achieves independence.
• 1962 - Julius Kambarage Nyerere is first president of newly formed Republic of Tanganyika.
• 1963 - Zanzibar becomes independen
• 1964 - Morre a poetisa brasileira Cecília Meireles.
• 1965 - Tiradentes é declarado Patrono da Nação Brasileira.
• 1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered.
• 1965 - Nikolai V. Podgorny replaced Anastas I. Mikoyan as president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
• 1974 -Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during the war of independence.
• 1974 - Começo em Portugal do recenseamento eleitoral com vista à realização das primeiras eleições a realizar após o 25 de Abril.
• 1977 - Morre no Rio de Janeiro, Clarice Lispector, escritora e romancista.
• 1979 - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the religious broadcaster, died in New York City at age 84.
• 1984 - The five-day-old hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner that claimed the lives of two Americans ended as Iranian security men seized control of the plane, which was parked at Tehran airport.
• 1985 - O ex-presidente argentino Jorge Videla é condenado à prisão perpétua por ter liderado a “guerra suja” na qual milhares de pessoas desapareceram.
• 1990 - Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland.
• 1992 - John Major announced the separation of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales
• 1992 - É aprovado no Brasil o Imposto Provisório sobre Movimentação Financeira (IPMF).
• 1992 - US Marines land in Somalia
• 1993- The Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II missile silos marked for elimination under an arms control treaty.
• 1993 - U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1994 - O Sinn Fein, o ramo político do Exército Republicano Irlandês (IRA), realizou as primeiras conversações políticas com o governo britânico, em 70 anos.
• 1996 - Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.
• 2003 - A suicide bomber killed five victims outside an exclusive Moscow hotel