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This is a list of selected December 9 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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1425Pope Martin V issued a papal bull establishing what later became the Catholic University of Leuven, the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. unreferenced section
1824 – Forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeated a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, ending the Peruvian War of Independence. refimprove section, unreferenced section
1856Anglo-Persian War: Bushehr, a city on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf in present-day Iran, surrendered to occupying British forces. Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1872P. B. S. Pinchback took office as Governor of Louisiana, the first African American governor of a U.S. state. unreferenced section
1897 – Stage actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde. Durand is unreferenced, La Fronde is stubby
1905 – Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed by the Chamber of Deputies of France, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics. refimprove
1922Gabriel Narutowicz was elected as the first President of Poland by the Polish parliament. refimprove
1946 – The Doctors' Trial, the first of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, began to prosecute doctors who were allegedly involved in Nazi human experimentation during World War II. needs more footnotes
1960Coronation Street, the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, was first broadcast on ITV. refimprove section, unreferenced section
1961Tanganyika gained independence from Britain before becoming part of Tanzania three years later. stubby
1990Lech Wałęsa became the first person elected President of Poland in a direct presidential election after the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. appears on August 14

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December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961); Army Day in Peru (1824)

Mayor Hussein al-Husayni of Jerusalem surrendering to the British

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