December 9 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Genocide.
🇺🇳 International Anti-Corruption Day.
🌏 International Veterinary Day.
🌏 World Techno Day.
🌏 Birthday of the computer mouse.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Heroes of the Fatherland.
🇺🇸 USA – Day of Lamas.
🇲🇼 Malawi – Arbor Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Geologists’ Day.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Navy Day.
🇵🇪 Peru – Army Day.
🇹🇿 Tanzania – Independence Day and Republic Day.
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda – Heroes’ Day.
🇫🇮 Finland, 🇸🇪 Sweden – Lutefaq Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 536 – Byzantine-Gothic Wars: The Ostrogothic garrison of Rome leaves the city through the Porta del Popolo.
– 1425 – Martin V opens the Catholic University of Leuven.
– 1489 – After seven months of defense by the Moors, the Bastion is captured by the troops of Ferdinand and Isabella.
– 1824 – Battle of Ayacucho.
– 1863 – American James Plimpton invents the four-wheeled skate.
– 1884 – An improved version of the roller skate is patented in the United States by Levant Richardson.
– 1917 – The Crimean Tatar People’s Congress declares the Crimean People’s Republic.
– 1917 – With the withdrawal of the Ottoman army from the Palestine front, Al-Quds is liberated from 400 years of Ottoman rule.
– 1931 – The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed.
– 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass begins.
– 1953 – General Electric announces the dismissal of all communist employees.
– 1968 – Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer mouse.
– 1987 – The First Palestinian Intifada begins.
– 1989 – The newspaper Kommersant begins publication.
– 1990 – Lech Walesa wins the Polish elections.
– 1992 – The Republic of Uzbekistan ratifies the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
– 1992 – The Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the Protection of Nature” is adopted.
– 1992 – The UN peacekeeping operation in Somalia begins.
– 2003 – International Anti-Corruption Day was celebrated for the first time.
