This Day in History 12/9/20

Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on December 9th. As the world continues to await a vaccine to help beat back the Covid-19 pandemic, we look back to this day in 1979, when a commission of scientists declared that smallpox had been officially eradicated from the earth. The disease, which ravaged humanity for centuries and killed about 30 percent of those who contracted it, is the only infectious disease afflicting humans that has officially been eradicated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices