What is December 9?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1950 === * [[480]] &ndash; [[Odoacer]], the first [[King]] of [[Italy]], occupies Dalmatia in present–day [[Croatia]]. * [[536]] &ndash; [[Gothic War]]: The Byzantine [[general officer|general]] [[Belisarius]] enters [[Rome]] unopposed. * [[1531]] &ndash; The [[Virgin of Guadalupe]] is said to have first appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, [[Mexico City]]. * [[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British troops lose in the [[Battle of Great Bridge]] and leave [[Virginia]] shortly after. * [[1793]] &ndash; [[New York City]]'s first daily [[newspaper]], the American Minerva, is created by [[Noah Webster]]. * [[1824]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ayacucho]]: [[Peru]]vian troops defeat the Spanish, who then end their colonial rule over [[Peru]]. * [[1835]] &ndash; The Texan [[Army]] captures [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]. * [[1851]] &ndash; The [[YMCA]] in [[North America]] is founded in [[Montreal]]. * [[1872]] &ndash; [[P. B. S. Pinchback]] becomes the first [[African American]] State [[Governor]] in the [[US]], in [[Louisiana]]. * [[1888]] &ndash; Statistician [[Herman Hollerith]] installs his computing device at the [[United States Department of War]]. * [[1892]] &ndash; English [[Soccer|football]] club [[Newcastle United]] is created. * [[1897]] &ndash; Activist [[Marguerite Durand]] founds the [[Feminism|feminist]] daily [[newspaper]], La Fronde, in [[Paris]]. * [[1905]] &ndash; [[France]] passes the [[law]] separating [[church]] and [[state]]. * [[1911]] &ndash; A [[Mining|mine]] explosion in Briceville, [[Tennessee]] kills 84 miners. * [[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: [[Hussein al-Husseyni]], Ottoman [[Mayor]] of [[Jerusalem]], surrenders the city to the British. * [[1922]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Narutowicz]] is confirmed as [[President of Poland]]. * [[1931]] &ndash; The Constituent Cortes approves a [[constitution]] which establishes the Second [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Republic]]. * [[1935]] &ndash; [[American football]]: The trophy that later becomes the [[Heisman Trophy]]