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December 9: This Day in History

Featured Fact, 1907:
Christmas seals went on sale for the first time at the Wilmington, Delaware post office; proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.

Also Today:
1931: Spain becomes a republic.
1941: China declares war against Japan, Germany, and Italy.
1958: The anti-Commmunist John Birch Society is formed.
1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres.
1993: U.S. astronauts complete repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope.