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The events happened on 9th December are :
1990 : Lech Wałęsa elected president of Poland : On this day in 1990, Lech Wałęsa—who had led Solidarity, Poland's first independent trade union, and had received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983—won Poland's first direct presidential election by a landslide. 1998 : The United Nations General Assembly declared anti-Semitism a form of racism. 1990 : Slobodan Milošević was reelected president of Serbia at the head of the Socialist Party, formerly the League of Communists of Serbia (LCS). 1961 : Tanganyika became independent, with Julius Nyerere as its first prime minister, and in 1964 the territory united with the island of Zanzibar to form Tanzania. 1958 : The John Birch Society was founded in the United States by Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. 1824 : Revolutionary forces under the leadership of Venezuelan Antonio José de Sucre defeated the Spanish royal army at the Battle of Ayacucho. Today in History IndexFrom 9th December to HOME PAGE |
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