THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today is Thursday, December 9, the 343rd day of 2010. There are 22 days left in the year.

536 ― Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten

1878 ― Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500

1905 ― Richard Strauss' opera ``Salome" premieres in Dresden

1941 ― China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

1941 ― Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed

1948 ― U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

1953 ― General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

1968 ― Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford

1987 ― Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank

1990 ― Lech Walesa wins presidential election in Poland