Born on 9 December 1967

At A Glance

9 December 1967 at a glance

Day of the week

9 December 1967 was a Saturday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“The Last Waltz” by Engelbert Humperdinck was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.

Top Film of 1967

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1967 was The Jungle Book.

Star sign

The star sign for 9 December is Sagittarius.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 9 December 1967 fell in the Year of the Goat.

Birthstone

The birthstone for December is Turquoise.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 9 December 1967 was First Quarter.

On this day: 9 December

• 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
• 1968 Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• 1969 U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
• 1971 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
• 1973 British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

Famous people born on 9 December

• Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer (1916–2020)
• John Malkovich, American actor and producer (born 1953)
• Judi Dench, English actress (born 1934)
• Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician (born 1946)

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