September 9
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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). There are 113 days remaining.
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Events
- 1000 - Battle of Swold
- 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III
- 1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated.
- 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston
- 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States.
- 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1870 - Redmond, Washington founded
- 1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized.
- 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. Non-turkic population flees.
- 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the great founder of modern Turkey, has founded CHP.
- 1926 - The National Broadcasting Company formed.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
- 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944 - World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia.
- 1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
- 1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created.
- 1954 - Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario
- 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1965 - Sandy Koufax throws a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs
- 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
- 1971 - Attica Prison riots
- 1983 - Aaron Pryor beats Alexis Arguello by knockout in round ten of a rematch of their 1982 controversial fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions.
- 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 - The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States
- 2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
- 2004 - A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing several people.
- 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced.
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Births
- 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1523)
- 1585 - Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642)
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
- 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, politician (d. 1808)
- 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1849 - Lucy Rider Meyer, physician, social worker, educator, Methodist deaconess
- 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
- 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, writer (d. 1934)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, poet
- 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player
- 1899 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
- 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer
- 1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer
- 1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator
- 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976
- 1924 - Jane Greer, actress
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson, Academy Award-winning actor.
- 1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz musician (d. 1975)
- 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1941 - Peter Bonetti, British footballer
- 1941 - Otis Redding, singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist
- 1946 - Billy Preston, musician
- 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
- 1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer
- 1951 - Michael Keaton, actor
- 1952 - David A. Stewart, musician (Eurythmics)
- 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
- 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor
- 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian
- 1970 - Macy Gray, singer
- 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1987 - Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, child prodigy in physics
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Deaths
- 701 - Pope Sergius I
- 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
- 1087 - King William I of England
- 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
- 1513 - King James IV of Scotland
- 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
- 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
- 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
- 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
- 1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader
- 1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (b. 1892)
- 1980 - John Howard Griffin, writer (b. 1920)
- 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia
- 1990 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer
- 1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor
- 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader
- 2003 - Larry Hovis, actor
- 2003 - Edward Teller, American]] physicist
1988-anond kaosaard Thailand superstar
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Holidays and observances
- National Day in Bulgaria (1944)
- National Day in North Korea (1948)
- Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)
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External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/9)
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