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; Army Day in Peru (1824) refimprove
Independence Day in Tanzania (1961) refimprove section
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. needs rewrite, 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. refimprove
1872P. B. S. Pinchback took office as governor of Louisiana, the first African-American governor of a U.S. state. refimprove section
1931 – The approval of the Spanish Constitution by the Constituent Cortes paved the way to the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic. unreferenced section
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
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. refimprove section
1960Coronation Street, the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, was first broadcast on ITV. plot summary too long
1965A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first television adaptation of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, was broadcast for the first time. refimprove section
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
1996 – Gwen Jacob was acquitted of indecent exposure for having taken off her shirt on a hot day, thus guaranteeing topfreedom in Ontario, Canada. lots of CN tags (7)
Íñigo López de Mendoza |b|1493| Too much unreferenced
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |d|1674| unreferenced section
Joan Armatrading |b|1950| Too much uncited

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December 9: International Anti-Corruption Day

The first computer mouse
The first computer mouse
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