July 9

July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire.
1357 5:31 AM – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague
1540 – Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1749 – Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 – Act Against Slavery passes in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1815 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain
1846 – By an act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac (39 mi² or about 100 km²) was returned to Virginia.
1850 – President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
1893 – Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open heart surgery at Provident Hospital in Chicago.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
1900 – Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
1944 – World War II: British and Canadian forces capture Caen.
1945 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.
1968 – Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1982 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground.
1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1991 – International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec.
1991 – South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1992 – Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
1997 – Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
1999 – Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran
2004 – After José Manuel Durão Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.