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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">December 9</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Corruption_Day" title="International Anti-Corruption Day">International Anti-Corruption Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688" title="1688">1688</a> – In the only substantial military action in England during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>, forces loyal to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William of Orange</a> were decisively victorious in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Reading_(1688)" title="Battle of Reading (1688)">Battle of Reading</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1897" title="1897">1897</a> – French actress, journalist and leading suffragette <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Durand" title="Marguerite Durand">Marguerite Durand</a> founded the feminist newspaper <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fronde_(newspaper)" title="La Fronde (newspaper)">La Fronde</a></b></i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> adopted the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention" title="Genocide Convention">Genocide Convention</a></b>, which defines <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a> in legal terms and advises its signatories to prevent and punish such actions.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart" title="Douglas Engelbart">Douglas Engelbart</a></b> gave what became known as "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos" title="The Mother of All Demos">The Mother of All Demos</a></b>", publicly debuting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse" title="Computer mouse">computer mouse</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext" title="Hypertext">hypertext</a>, and the bit-mapped <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface">graphical user interface</a> using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)" title="NLS (computer system)">oN-Line System (NLS)</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – Governor of Illinois <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich" title="Rod Blagojevich">Rod Blagojevich</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges" title="Rod Blagojevich corruption charges">was arrested</a></b> for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> seat that was being vacated by then-President-elect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Desha" title="Joseph Desha">Joseph Desha</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1768); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber" title="Fritz Haber">Fritz Haber</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1868); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_Murdoch" title="Alister Murdoch">Alister Murdoch</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1912); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliane_Morissens" title="Eliane Morissens">Eliane Morissens</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2006)</p>
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