1608 English poet and philosopher John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on December 9, 1608, the son of John Milton senior and his wife, Sarah Jeffrey. His father John - who contributed a collection of madrigals in honor of Elizabeth I - encouraged his son's ambitions; John Jr. was writing poetry by the age of ten.
1621 On December 9, 1621, deacon Robert Cushman gave a sermon to settle jealousies and animosities among settlers of the Plymouth Colony. He had come to help straighten out affairs, and he preached out of Corinthians, encouraging true friendship and love among the settlers. It was the first recorded sermon on American soil and the first to be printed there.
1793 Noah Webster was a strong supporter of George Washington. In fact, he was such a strong supporter of the first president, that he established the first daily newspaper in New York City so that he could defend his hero. The American Minerva was first published on December 9, 1793. Webster was one of the first to make the daily newspaper a political force in America.
1824 During the period in the early 19th century when ideas of political autonomy spread throughout Spanish America, Peru remained the Spanish government headquarters; it was the last territory to secure independence following the Battle of Ayacucho on December 9, 1824.
1872 Mixed race publisher and politician P.B.S. Pinchback became the first person of African descent to become governor of a U.S. state when he served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, from December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873.
1883 Joseph Pilates, the creator of the Pilates fitness system, was born on December 9, 1883. Pilates was a German working in England when World War 1 broke out. While interned in a prison camp (Knockaloe) on the Isle of Man, he developed a method of exercise prisoners could perform in confined space using just their own body weight. The fitness system now known as Pilates is practiced worldwide.
1886 Clarence Birdseye was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 9, 1886. An American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, he invented and perfecting a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing under high pressure. In 1924 Clarence Birdseye organised his own company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc. This was the beginning of the frozen foods industry.
1892 Lorraine Collett, Sun-Maid's famous mascot, was born on December 9, 1892. In 1915 a raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl called Lorraine Collett drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother's red bonnet in the backyard of her family's home. They hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon Collett became the company's first mascot called, "Sun Maid."
1892 Widowers' Houses, the first play of George Bernard Shaw to be staged, premiered on December 9, 1892 at the Royalty Theatre, under the auspices of the Independent Theatre Society. Widowers' Houses attacked slum landlords and placed Shaw as the spearhead of a new political movement in the theater aimed at the intellect rather than the emotions.
1897 La Fronde (The Sling) was a French feminist newspaper first published in Paris on December 9, 1897 by activist Marguerite Durand. The paper gave extensive coverage to a broad range of feminist issues and profiled such things as Jeanne Chauvin's demand that the French government grant her the right to practice law. Financial problems forced the paper to close in March 1905.
1942 When the destroyer HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a German torpedo on December 9, 1942, the two halves were towed back to the United Kingdom and recommissioned as two ships; HMS Pork and HMS Pine.
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| John Milton at age 10 by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen |
1621 On December 9, 1621, deacon Robert Cushman gave a sermon to settle jealousies and animosities among settlers of the Plymouth Colony. He had come to help straighten out affairs, and he preached out of Corinthians, encouraging true friendship and love among the settlers. It was the first recorded sermon on American soil and the first to be printed there.
1793 Noah Webster was a strong supporter of George Washington. In fact, he was such a strong supporter of the first president, that he established the first daily newspaper in New York City so that he could defend his hero. The American Minerva was first published on December 9, 1793. Webster was one of the first to make the daily newspaper a political force in America.
1824 During the period in the early 19th century when ideas of political autonomy spread throughout Spanish America, Peru remained the Spanish government headquarters; it was the last territory to secure independence following the Battle of Ayacucho on December 9, 1824.
1872 Mixed race publisher and politician P.B.S. Pinchback became the first person of African descent to become governor of a U.S. state when he served as the 24th Governor of Louisiana for 35 days, from December 9, 1872, to January 13, 1873.
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| P. B. S. Pinchback. Library of Congress description: "Gov. Pinchback" |
1883 Joseph Pilates, the creator of the Pilates fitness system, was born on December 9, 1883. Pilates was a German working in England when World War 1 broke out. While interned in a prison camp (Knockaloe) on the Isle of Man, he developed a method of exercise prisoners could perform in confined space using just their own body weight. The fitness system now known as Pilates is practiced worldwide.
1886 Clarence Birdseye was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 9, 1886. An American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, he invented and perfecting a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing under high pressure. In 1924 Clarence Birdseye organised his own company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc. This was the beginning of the frozen foods industry.
1892 Lorraine Collett, Sun-Maid's famous mascot, was born on December 9, 1892. In 1915 a raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl called Lorraine Collett drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother's red bonnet in the backyard of her family's home. They hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon Collett became the company's first mascot called, "Sun Maid."
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| Original painting of Collett as the Sun-Maid Girl, ca. 1915 |
1892 Widowers' Houses, the first play of George Bernard Shaw to be staged, premiered on December 9, 1892 at the Royalty Theatre, under the auspices of the Independent Theatre Society. Widowers' Houses attacked slum landlords and placed Shaw as the spearhead of a new political movement in the theater aimed at the intellect rather than the emotions.
1897 La Fronde (The Sling) was a French feminist newspaper first published in Paris on December 9, 1897 by activist Marguerite Durand. The paper gave extensive coverage to a broad range of feminist issues and profiled such things as Jeanne Chauvin's demand that the French government grant her the right to practice law. Financial problems forced the paper to close in March 1905.
1942 When the destroyer HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a German torpedo on December 9, 1942, the two halves were towed back to the United Kingdom and recommissioned as two ships; HMS Pork and HMS Pine.
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| "HMS Pork", the front half of HMS Porcupine Wikipedia |
1946 The original manuscript of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite was found on December 9, 1946 in wastepaper bought to cover the walls of a flat in St Petersburg, then Leningrad. The manuscript was in a dilapidated condition, with many pages torn and damaged. However, it was still intact enough to be restored and preserved as a valuable piece of musical history.
1960 The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on December 9, 1960. It was expected to last just 13 weeks. Within six months of its start in 1960, Coronation Street was the most--watched television show in the UK.
1961 Tanganyika first gained independence from the United Kingdom on December 9, 1961 as a state headed by Queen Elizabeth II. Three years later, the islands of Zanzibar joined Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, later in the year changed to the United Republic of Tanzania. The name "Tanzania" was created as a clipped compound of the names of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
1968 The NLS, a computer collaboration system that was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext, the computer mouse, and other modern computing concepts, was publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco on December 9, 1968. Engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart's 90-minute 'Mother of All Demos' essentially demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing.
1990 Italian footballer Giuseppe Lorenzo holds the record for the fastest-ever sending off in a professional match; The Bologna man was sent off after just 10 seconds on December 9, 1990 in a match against Parma for hitting an opponent.
2012 On December 9, 2012, Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi scored twice against Real Betis, his 85th and 86th goals in 2012. This surpassed Gerd Müller's world record of 85 goals scored in a calendar year in 1972 with Bayern Munich and the German national team. His final tally for 2012 was 91 goals.
2016 The most recent North American language to become extinct was Mandan, a Siouan language of North Dakota in the United States. The last speaker, an elder named Edwin Benson, died on December 9, 2016.
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