Template:On this day/December 9
- 1830 – Joseph Forsyth transfered half his land holdings to Andrew and Ezekiel Simpson, and together the three men establish the Arcadia Manufacturing Company.
- 1958 – Warrington voters rejected annexation into the City of Pensacola, 2,036 to 1,532.
- 2004 – The body of disgraced Escambia County Commissioner Willie Junior was discovered under the house of a former Junior Funeral Home employee.