WHAT HAPPENED ON 9. DECEMBER
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The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic. (9. December 1931)

Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder. (9. December 1935)

The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. (9. December 1935)

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking). (9. December 1937)

World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. (9. December 1940)

World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. (9. December 1941)

World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. (9. December 1941)

The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" begin with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. (9. December 1946)

The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India. (9. December 1946)

Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. (9. December 1950)

Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. (9. December 1953)

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board. (9. December 1956)

The John Birch Society is founded in the United States. (9. December 1958)

The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom. (9. December 1960)

Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. (9. December 1961)

The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona. (9. December 1962)

Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object. (9. December 1965)

A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS. (9. December 1965)

Barbados joins the United Nations. (9. December 1966)

Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). (9. December 1968)