Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9

December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961)

• 1897 - Stage actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.

• 1905 - Legislation on the separation of church and state in France was adopted, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics.

• 1946 - The Doctors' Trial, the trial for crimes committed in Nazi human experimentation during World War II, began in Nuremberg, Germany.

• 1958 - The John Birch Society was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States.

• 1961 - Tanganyika (flag pictured) gained independence from Britain (Tanganyika would become part of Tanzania three years later).

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