Today in History for 9th December 2025

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Historical Events

1974 - Howard Cosell briefly interviews rocker John Lennon, and Frank Gifford chats with California governor Ronald Reagan, during halftime of Monday Night Football broadcast from the Coliseum in Los Angeles, California
1988 - Premiere of fact based crime drama film "Mississippi Burning"
2016 - South Korean MPs vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye
2019 - US officials "deliberately misled" the public on progress of the Afghanistan war, hid that it was a lost cause, according to The Washington Post analysis of the "Afghanistan Papers"
2023 - 89th Heisman Trophy Award: Jayden Daniels, LSU (QB)

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Famous Birthdays

1787 - John Dobson, English architect, born in High Chirton, North Shields, England (d. 1865)
1902 - Rab Butler, British politician who favoured appeasement, born in Attock Serai, British India (d. 1982)
1904 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, work with split-brain research), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1994)
1965 - Brad Savage, American actor (Red Dawn), born in Livonia, Michigan
1974 - Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach, born in St. Charles County, Missouri

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Famous Deaths

1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman, lawyer, chief advisor to Charles I, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II, dies at 65
1775 - Pietro Gnocchi, Italian sacred music composer, choir director Brescia Cathedral, 1723-33 and 1762-75), priest, historian, and geographer, dies at 86
2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
2014 - José Feghali, Brazilian concert pianist (Van Cliburn Gold Medalist, 1985), takes his own life at 53
2023 - Frank Wycheck, American football tight end (Pro Bowl 1998, 99, 2000; Washington Redskins, Houston/Tennessee Oilers-Titans), dies after a fall at 52

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