Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9
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This is a list of selected December 9 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961); Army Day in Peru
- 1856 – Anglo-Persian War: Bushehr, a city on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf in present-day Iran, surrendered to occupying British forces.
- 1905 – Legislation on the separation of church and state in France was adopted, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics.
- 1946 – The Doctors' Trial, the trial for crimes committed in Nazi human experimentation during World War II, began in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1961 – Tanganyika gained independence from Britain (Tanganyika would become part of Tanzania three years later).
- 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of eminent scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox (pictured), making it the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated from nature.
More events: December 8 – December 9 – December 10
