On This Day:
Tuesday December 9, 2014 This is the 343rd day of the year, with 22 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: artifacts Stone, bone, and antler tools/objects are all scholars have to guide them in trying to reconstruct human activity for 98 percent of the time hominids have existed.
Holidays Tanzania: National Day/ Independence and Republic Day (from Britain, 1961).
Feast day of the Seven Martyrs of Samosata, St. Peter Fourier, St. Budoc or Beuzec, St. Gorgonia, and St. Leocadia.
Events 1621 - The first sermon was delivered in New England, at Plymouth, Massachusetts, by Robert Cushman.
1792 - America's first formal cremation took place near Charleston, South Carolina.
1793 - Noah Webster established New York City's first daily newspaper, "The American Minerva."
1884 - Ball-bearing roller skates were patented by Levant M. Richardson.
1907 - Christmas seals went on sale for the first time, at the Wilmington, Delaware post office; proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.
1941 - China declared war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek lost control of Peking, and his Nationalist forces fled the Chinese mainland, settling on the island of Formosa, which would later become the independent Chinese republic of Taiwan.
1958 - The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed in Indianapolis.
1975 - President Gerald Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan-authorization that officials of New York City and New York State said would prevent a city default.
1987 - In Israel, the first riots of the Palestinian intifada erupted on the occupied Gaza Strip in protest of Israeli occupation of former Arab territory in the Middle East.
1990 - In Poland, Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity trade union, won a landslide victory over transitional Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki, becoming the first democratically-elected Polish leader in over six decades.
1990 - Slobodan Milosovic (Serbian Socialist Party) was elected president in Serbia's first free elections in 50 years.
1992 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation.
2002 - United Airlines filed the biggest bankruptcy in aviation history after losing $4 billion in the previous two years.
Births 1608 - John Milton, English poet.
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor of the deep-freezing process.
1898 - Emmett Kelly, American clown.
1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French illustrator and author, creator of the Babar series.
1918 - Kirk Douglas, American film actor.
1930 - Buck Henry, American actor, writer and director.
1957 - Donny Osmond, singer, musician, actor and former teen idol.
Deaths 1641 - Anthony Van Dyck, 17th century Flemish painter.
1996 - Mary Douglas Leakey, English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist and wife of noted anthropologist Louis Leakey.
2003 - United States senator Paul Simon, American politician.
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