DECEMBER 9
1990:Solidarity union leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa is elected president of the Republic of Poland in the country's first direct presidential election.
1979: A World Health Organization panel in Geneva, Switzerland, certifies that the smallpox virus has been fully eradicated, largely due to the WHO's Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign, an international effort led by Donald Henderson, M.D. Formerly a death sentence for millions of people every year, smallpox is the first and only infectious disease to be fully eradicated by human intervention.
1992: British Prime Minister John Major announces that Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and Princess Diana will separate after 11 years of marriage.
1979: A World Health Organization panel in Geneva, Switzerland, certifies that the smallpox virus has been fully eradicated, largely due to the WHO's Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign, an international effort led by Donald Henderson, M.D. Formerly a death sentence for millions of people every year, smallpox is the first and only infectious disease to be fully eradicated by human intervention.
1992: British Prime Minister John Major announces that Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and Princess Diana will separate after 11 years of marriage.
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