Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9
December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961); Army Day in Peru.
- 1856 – Anglo-Persian War: Bushehr, a city on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf in present-day Iran, surrendered to occupying British forces.
- 1905 – Legislation on the separation of church and state in France was adopted, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics.
- 1946 – The Doctors' Trial, the trial for crimes committed in Nazi human experimentation during World War II, began in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1961 – Tanganyika gained independence from Britain (Tanganyika would become part of Tanzania three years later).
- 1979 – A World Health Organization commission of eminent scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox (pictured), making it the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated from nature.
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