This day in history
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Monday, 8 December 2014
On this day... December 9
On this day...
December 9
1872
–
P. B. S. Pinchback
took office as
Governor of Louisiana
, the first
African American
governor of a U.S. state.
1917
–
First World War
:
Hussein al-Husayni
, the Ottoman
mayor of Jerusalem
,
surrendered
(pictured)
the city to the British.
1931
– The approval of the
Spanish Constitution
by the
Constituent Cortes
paved the way to the establishment of the
Second Spanish Republic
.
1958
– The
John Birch Society
, named after
John Birch
, an American missionary who was killed in China by communists, was founded to fight the perceived threat of
communism
in the United States.
1979
– A
World Health Organization
commission of scientists certified the global eradication of
smallpox
, making it the only human
infectious disease
to date to have been completely eradicated from nature.
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