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December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) ... Canada, killing all 62 people on board. 1956 – An Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes near Anadyr, ...
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Buck Henry (born Henry Zuckerman; [1] December 9, 1930 – January 8, 2020) was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Henry's contributions to film included his work as a co-writer for Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967) for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Zac Foley (December 9, 1970 –January 02, 2002), (born Zachary Sebastian Rex James Foley) Brit bassist of EMF fame, would have turned 54 this year.; Neil Innes (December 9, 1944 –December 29, 2019 ), Brit guitarist and songwriter with The Rutles, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and Monty Python, would have turned 80 this year.
Dan Cristian Diaconescu (Romanian pronunciation: [dan di.akoˈnesku]; born December 9, 1967) is a Romanian journalist, politician, presenter, [1] the founder and owner of the former DDTV and OTV television channels. In 2010, together with OTV show presenters, he formed the People's Party – Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD).
A set of octuplets was born on 5 December 1996, in Huelva, Spain, to Rosario Clavijo. Two of them were stillborn, and six survived. [113] [137] The Chukwu octuplets were born in December 1998 in Houston, Texas, United States. The smallest of the octuplets, Odera, died a week after birth. [138]
On January 1, 1942, the Navy released a list of commendations for actions on December 7. Among them was a single commendation for an unnamed black man. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt to award the Distinguished Service Cross to the unknown black sailor. The Navy Board of ...
The People's Republic of China began a campaign urging Chinese people worldwide to "come back to the arms of the Motherland", and sent four ships to foreign ports for that purpose. Approximately 100,000 people took advantage of the offer. [28] The United States withdrew its last military personnel from Iceland, where it had 5,200 people at ...