December 9th Events
1978 – 1st game of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL)
1793 – First Daily paper in NYC, the “American Minerva” by Noah Webster*
1990 – Solidarity founder Lech Walesa wins Poland’s presidential run off by a landslide
1972 – “I Am Woman” by Helen Reddy tops the U.S. pop charts, women’s lib begins