September 9

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). There are 113 days remaining.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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
• 1987 – Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, child prodigy in physics

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

Holidays and observances

• National Day in Bulgaria (1944)
• National Day in North Korea (1948)
• Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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