{"id":23325,"date":"2023-12-09T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23325"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:28:03","slug":"history-of-9-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-9-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 9 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; European Community leaders agreed to begin using a single currency in 1999.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; Clair George, former CIA spy chief, was convicted of lying to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress about the Iran-Contra affair.\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0later pardoned George.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, to oversee delivery of international food aid, in operation &#8216;Restore Hope&#8217;.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force destroyed the first of 500 Minuteman II missile silos that were marked for elimination under an arms control treaty.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; Astronauts aboard the space shuttle\u00a0<em>Endeavor<\/em>\u00a0completed repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; At Princeton University in\u00a0New Jersey, scientists produced a controlled fusion reaction equivalent to 3 million watts.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; Representatives of the Irish Republican Army and the British government opened peace talks in Northern Ireland.<\/li>\r\n<li>1996 &#8211; UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali approved a deal allowing Iraq to resume its exports of oil and easing the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq in 1990.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0announced that it was expelling a Russian diplomat that had been caught gathering information with an eavesdropping device at the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0State Department.<\/li>\r\n<li>2002 &#8211; United Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing $4 billion in the previous two years. It was the sixth largest bankruptcy filing.<\/li>\r\n<li>2003 &#8211; In Australia, thieves broke into a home and stole two 300-year-old etchings by Rembrandt. The 4-by-4-inch etchings, a self-portait and a depiction of the artist&#8217;s mother, were valued around $518,000.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013 &#8211; AMR Corporation and US Airways Group completed a merger and was listed on the NASDAQ as American Airlines Group, Inc.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2016\u00a0\u2013 President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is\u00a0impeached\u00a0by the country&#8217;s National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.<\/li>\r\n<li>2016 \u2013 At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in\u00a0Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the\u00a0Madagali suicide bombings.<\/li>\r\n<li>2017\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Marriage Amendment Bill\u00a0receives royal assent and comes into effect, making\u00a0Australia\u00a0the 26th country to legalize\u00a0same-sex marriage.<\/li>\r\n<li>2019 \u2013 A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mardy Fish, American tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Ryan Grant, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Bastian Swillims, German sprinter<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Neslihan Demir Darnel, Turkish volleyball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Adam, German politician<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0\u00c1ngel Guirado, Spanish\u2013Filipino footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Leon Hall, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Mat Latos, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 \u2013\u00a0Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist<\/li>\r\n<li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0McKayla Maroney, American gymnast<\/li>\r\n<li>1996 \u2013 Kyle Connor, American ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast<\/li>\r\n<li>1999\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician<\/li>\r\n<li>2000\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Di\u0101na \u0145ikitina, Latvian figure skater<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 &#8211; European Community leaders agreed to begin using a single currency in 1999. 1992 &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. 1992 &#8211; Clair George, former CIA spy chief, was convicted of lying to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress about the Iran-Contra affair.\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0later pardoned George. 1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1470],"class_list":{"0":"post-23325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-9-december"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-64d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24097,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325\/revisions\/24097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}