This Day in History: 0000-12-09

9 Dec – The Khazars, a nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia, invaded Persia and defeated Arab Muslim forces of the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Marj Ardabil (730).
9 Dec – America’s oldest rifle club, the Massachusetts Rifle Association, was founded (1875).
9 Dec – After the conclusion of the main portion of the Nuremberg Trials, the Doctors’ Trial began, in which 23 Nazi physicians and others were tried for inhuman experimentation and mass murder Seven were acquitted (1946).
9 Dec – A Charlie Brown Christmas by Peanuts creator Charles Schultz premiered on CBS (1965).