Daily Calendar for December 9th, 2019

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1620s

• 1621: Robert Cushman gave first known sermon in the "United States," in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts

1790s

• 1793: Noah Webster established The American Minerva, NY's first daily newspaper

1860s

• 1862: Canada's first coin club, Numismatic Society of Montreal, formed

1880s

• Born 1886: Clarence Birdseye (businessman)

1890s

• Born 1899: Jean de Brunhoff (author of Babar books)

1910s

• Born 1916: Kirk Douglas (actor)

1920s

• Born 1922: Redd Foxx (actor)

1930s

• Born 1934: Dame Judi Dench (actress)

• 1935: Lincoln letter sold for $748,000

• 1935: First Heisman Trophy awarded to Jay Berwanger

• 1939: Quebec adopted a new coat of arms

1940s

• 1940: British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II

• Born 1941: Beau Bridges (actor)

1950s

• 1951: Bob Waterfield became the first professional football player to kick 5 field goals in one game

• Born 1953: John Malkovich (actor)

• Born 1957: Donnie Osmond (entertainer)

1960s

• 1968: Public debut of the computer mouse, in San Francisco

1970s

• Born 1978: Jesse Metcalfe (actor)

1990s

• 1990: Marguerite d'Youville became first Canadian-born saint

2000s

• Died 2003: Paul Simon (5-term Democratic congressman and 2-term senator from Illinois who ran unsuccessfully for presidential nomination in 1988)

• Died 2006: Georgia Gibbs (singer)

• Died 2009: Gene Barry (actor)

2010s

• Born 2013: Twin polar bear cubs were born at the Hellabrunn Zoo, Munich, Germany