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TODAY - Dec 09, 2025

Thought of the Day

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work.

Today's Birthday

John Milton
John Milton Poet, English(1608)

An English poet whose greatest works were Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.

 
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber Chemist, German(1868)

A German chemist who developed a process for making the alkali ammonia, which is used to make fertilizers and explosive. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

 
Clarence Frank Birdseye
Clarence Frank Birdseye Inventor, American(1886)

An American inventor and naturalist who led the foundation of the modern frozen food industry.

 
Bob Hawke
Bob Hawke Politician, Australian(1929)

An Australian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

 
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr Politician, American(1912)

An American political leader and speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1977-1987), was born on December 9, 1912 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

This day in History

1793

American lexicographer Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper, the Minerva.

1941

China declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.

1958

Robert H. Welch, Jr., founds the John Birch Society to fight the infiltration of communism into American society.

1960

The British TV soap opera Coronation Street has been running for so long now that it is as much a part of the traditional British scene as the London bus or the red postbox.

2008

Scientists confirm the existence of a black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.

Man who made the difference

Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr (1912-1994)

Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr

An American political leader and speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1977-1987), was born on December 9, 1912 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. During his childhood, O'Neill acquired the nickname "Tip" after the baseball player James (Tip) O'Neill. Upon graduating from Boston College in 1936, he was elected as a Democrat to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He served several terms and in 1949 became speaker of the house. In 1952 O'Neill was elected to the United States House of Representatives. During his second term, he was appointed to the powerful House Rules Committee. In 1967, as chair of the committee, O'Neill openly opposed President Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam War policies. Despite his antiwar stance, O'Neill was reelected. He was appointed assistant majority leader in 1971 and majority leader in 1973. As majority leader, O'Neill was the most prominent Democrat to demand the investigation and impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon, who resigned from office in 1974. O'Neill became speaker of the United States House of Representatives in 1977, the year Democrat Jimmy Carter became president. In 1981 Republican Ronald Reagan succeeded Carter as president, and O'Neill became a leading opponent of the new administration's domestic and defense policies. O'Neill retired in 1987. With author William Novak, O'Neill wrote about his career in Man of the House (1987). He died on January 5, 1994 (age 81) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.


Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal