Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9
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December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961)
- 1897 - Stage actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
- 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.
- 1958 - The John Birch Society was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States.
- 1960 - Coronation Street, the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, was first broadcast on ITV.
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