Historical Events for 9th December 2022

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536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire
1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1854 - Alfred Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" is published in "The Examiner"
1941 - Adolf Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed
1975 - Yelena Bonner accepts Soviet dissident Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize in Oslo
1978 - 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
1990 - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
1993 - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
2012 - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
2021 - Chicago Black Hawks Marc-Andre Fleury becomes 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal

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