The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom. Date: December 9, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today)
Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. Date: December 9, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today)
Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. Date: December 9, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). Date: December 9, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day…
U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970. Date: December 9, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅…
Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences. Date: December 9, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland. Date: December 9, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other). Date: December 9, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day…
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Date: December 9, 1987 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1987 📅 On This Day (Today)
American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. Date: December 9, 1992 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1992 📅 On This Day (Today)