This Day, That Year – December 9

The first traffic lights were installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London on this day in 1868.

Did you know that:

• Noah Webster established New York’s first daily newspaper, the “American Minerva”, on this day in 1793
• Fritz Haber, a German chemist and inventor of the Haber–Bosch process, was born on this day in 1868
• Levant Richardson patented a ball-bearing skateboard on this day in 1884