Born on 9 December 1972

At A Glance

9 December 1972 at a glance

Day of the week

9 December 1972 was a Saturday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“Popcorn” by Hot Butter 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 1972

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1972 was The Godfather.

Star sign

The star sign for 9 December is Sagittarius.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 9 December 1972 fell in the Year of the Rat.

Birthstone

The birthstone for December is Turquoise.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 9 December 1972 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 9 December

• 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.
• 1979 The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

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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