It happened on this day, December 9
Events:
480 – Odoacer, a soldier and statesman of barbarian origins, deposes the child emperor Romulus Augustulus and becomes the first king of Italy. Odoacer's deposition of Romulus is traditionally considered to mark the end of the Western Roman Empire as well as ancient Rome.
536 – Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed during the Gothic War, and the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
914 – Dhaka the one-eyed enters Egypt at the head of the Abbasid army, sent by the caliph Abu al-Fadl Jaafar al-Muqtadir Billah, in order to repel the Fatimid threat from Egypt.
1917 – The United Kingdom occupies Jerusalem during World War I.
1947 – The Security Council makes the decision to internationalize Jerusalem.
1949 – United Nations Resolution 303 is issued, reaffirming Jerusalem's status under permanent international rule.
1961 – End of the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel, where he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Jews.
1975 – Establishment of the General House of Cultural Affairs in Baghdad, a government printing and publishing house. 1982 – Explosion in an office of Kuwait Airways in Athens, causing material losses.
1987 – Members of the European Community sign the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Monetary Unity.
💥 Tunisia restores relations with Egypt.
2009 – King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan appoints Samir Zaid Al-Rifai as Prime Minister, succeeding Nader Al-Dhahabi.
2015 – Start of the thirty-sixth Gulf Summit in Riyadh.
2016 – Announcement of the withdrawal of confidence in Korean President Park Geun-hye amid her involvement in a political corruption scandal, the revelation of which led to massive popular protests in the country, and the transfer of power to Prime Minister Hwang Kyu- ah.
2017 – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the end of the war against ISIS in Iraq and the liberation of all Iraqi lands.
2019 – The White Island volcano erupts in New Zealand, killing at least six people and injuring others.
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Births:
1594 – King Gustav II Adolf, king of Sweden.
1608 – John Milton, English poet.
1842 – Pyotr Kropotkin, Russian geographer.
1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918.
1901 – Udon von Horvat, Hungarian writer.
1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor.
1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975.
1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976.
1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, twentieth president of Italy.
1926 – Henry Kendall, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990.
1934 – Judi Dench, English actress.
1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician and widow of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor.
1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress.
1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer.
1969 – Picente Lizarazo, French footballer.
1972 – Rico Aylesworth, American actress.
** Fabrice Santoro, French tennis player.
1974 – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer.
1978 – Gastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player.
**Jesse Metcalfe, American actor.
1981 – Amira Mohammed, Bahraini actress.
** Mardy Fish, American tennis player.
1983: Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer.
1991 – Choi Min Ho, South Korean singer.
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Death:
1204 – Elias bin Jami' al-Irbli, Iraqi Muslim scholar and Arab poet.
1916: Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist.
1937 – Gustav Dalén, Swedish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1912.
1939 – Abu al-Khair al-Jundi, Syrian poet and politician.
(1945–Alfred Lucas, British chemist who worked on the tomb of Tutankhamun
1946 – Shakib Arslan, Lebanese writer, literary figure and thinker.
1971 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
** Mulla Murshid, Kuwaiti teacher and private school owner.
1992 – Yahya Haqqi, Egyptian novelist.
1996 – Karam Motawa, Egyptian actor and director.
2001 – Mohamed Abdel Ati, an Egyptian soldier nicknamed the Tank Hunter.
2006 – Attia Saqr, Egyptian jurist.
2009 – Othmane Jorio, Moroccan poet and resistance fighter.
2012 – Patrick Moore, British astronomer. ** Jenni Rivera, American singer and actress.
2016 – Abdel Wahed Zaki Rady, Egyptian reader.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Independence Day in Tanzania.
⏪ Army Day in Peru.
⏪ International Anti-Corruption Day.
