September 9
is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in
leap years). There are 113 days remaining.
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1000 -
Battle of Swold somewhere in the Baltic Sea between Norway and other Scandinavians.
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1087 -
William the Conqueror dies near Rouen, France.
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1379 -
Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the
Austrian
Habsburg lands between the
Habsburg Dukes
Albert III and
Leopold III.
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1493 -
Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of
Croats in
Croatian struggle against the
Ottoman Empire invasion.
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1513 -
James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the
Battle of Flodden Field, ending
Scotland's involvement in the
War of the League of Cambrai.
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1543 -
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially
crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central
Scottish town of
Stirling.
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1739 -
Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near
Charleston, South Carolina.
*
1776 - The
Continental Congress officially names their new
union of
sovereign states the
United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the
Constitution).
*
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 U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation
debt.
*
1863 -
American Civil War: The
Union Army enters
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
*
1886 - The
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
*
1914 -
World War I: The creation of the
Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the
British Army.
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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.
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1923 -
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the
Republic of Turkey, founds the
Republican People's Party (CHP).
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1924 -
Hanapepe Massacre occurs on
Kauai,
Hawaii.
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1926 - The U.S.
National Broadcasting Company formed.
*
1942 -
World War II: A
Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on
Oregon.
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1943 -
World War II: The
Allies land at
Salerno and
Taranto,
Italy.
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1944 -
World War II:
Bulgaria is occupied by
Soviet Union.
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1945 -
Second Sino-Japanese War:
Japan formally surrenders to
China.
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1947 - "First actual case of (a computer)
bug being found": a
moth lodges in a
relay of a Mark II computer at
Harvard University.
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1948 - The Republic Day of
Democratic People's Republic of Korea*
1956 -
Elvis Presley appears on
The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
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1965 - The
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
*
1966 - The
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into
law by
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
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1969 -
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a
Piper PA-28 and crashed near
Fairland,
Indiana.
*
1971 -
Attica Prison riots*
1991 -
Tajikstan gains independence from the
Soviet Union.
*
1995 -
Sony's
PlayStation game console was released in the US.
* 1995 -
Kids' WB! debuted on
The WB.
*
1999 -
Sega's
Dreamcast game console was released in the US.
*
2001, 01:46:40
UTC - the
Unix billennium.
* 2001 -
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the
Northern Alliance, is assassinated in
Afghanistan.
*
2004 -
2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A
bomb explodes outside the
Australian
embassy in
Jakarta, killing 10 people.
* 2004 -
Serbian
Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport
Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both
creationism and
evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.
*
384 -
Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d.
423)
*
1349 - Duke
Albert III of Austria (d.
1395)
*
1427 -
Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d.
1464)
*
1466 -
Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d.
1523)
*
1558 -
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d.
1602)
*
1585 -
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d.
1642)
*
1629 -
Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d.
1691)
*
1711 -
Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d.
1780)
*
1737 -
Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d.
1798)
*
1754 -
William Bligh, British naval officer (d.
1817)
*
1755 -
Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d.
1808)
*
1828 (N.S.) -
Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d.
1910)
*
1834 -
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d.
1903)
*
1855 -
Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d.
1921)
*
1868 -
Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d.
1934)
*
1873 -
Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d.
1943)
*
1878 -
Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d.
1914)
*
1887 -
Alf Landon, American politician (d.
1987)
*
1890 - Colonel
Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (d.
1980)
*
1892 -
Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d.
1961)
*
1894 -
Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d.
1973)
* 1894 -
Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d.
1976)
*
1898 -
Frankie Frisch, baseball player (d.
1973)
*
1899 -
Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d.
1984)
*
1903 -
Phyllis Whitney, American writer
*
1904 -
Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d.
2005)
*
1908 -
Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d.
1950)
*
1911 -
John Gorton, nineteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
2002)
*
1918 -
Jimmy Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d.
1996)
*
1920 -
Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d.
1970)
*
1922 -
Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
1923 -
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
1924 -
Jane Greer, American actress (d.
2001)
* 1924 -
Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d.
2003)
*
1925 -
Cliff Robertson, American actor
*
1928 -
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American musician (d.
1975)
*
1929 -
Claude Nougaro, French singer (d.
2004)
*
1935 -
Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
*
1939 -
Ron McDole, American football player
* 1939 -
Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
* 1939 -
George Lazenby, Australian actor
*
1941 -
Peter Bonetti, British footballer
* 1941 -
Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d.
1967)
* 1941 -
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
*
1943 -
Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
*
1946 -
Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (
Buffalo Springfield) (d.
2004)
*
1949 -
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of
Indonesia*
1949 -
Garry Maddox, American baseball player
*
1949 -
Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
*
1951 -
Alexander Downer, Australian politician
* 1951 -
Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
*
1952 -
David A. Stewart, English musician (
Eurythmics)
*
1954 -
Jeffrey Combs, American actor
*
1957 -
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
*
1960 -
Hugh Grant, British actor
* 1960 -
Mario Batali, American chef and restauranteur
*
1966 -
Georg Hackl, German luger
* 1966 -
Adam Sandler American actor and comedian
*
1967 -
Anna Malle, Adult film star
*
1969 -
Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
*
1972 -
Félix Rodríguez, Baseball player
*
1974 -
Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (
Millencolin)
*
1975 -
Michael Bublé, Canadian pop jazz singer and actor
*
1976 -
Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
*
1982 -
Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
*
1986 -
Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
*
701 -
Pope Sergius I*
1000 -
Olaf I of Norway*
1087 - King
William I of England*
1398 - King
James I of Cyprus (b.
1334)
*
1487 -
Chenghua, Emperor of China (b.
1447)
*
1488 -
Francis II, Duke of Brittany (
fell from a horse) (b.
1433)
*
1513 - King
James IV of Scotland (b.
1473)
*
1569 -
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
*
1596 -
Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
*
1612 -
Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b.
1570)
*
1680 -
Henry Marten, English regicide (b.
1602)
*
1755 -
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b.
1694)
*
1806 -
William Paterson, Signer of the
U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b.
1745)
*
1815 -
John Singleton Copley, American painter (b.
1738)
*
1841 -
A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b.
1778)
*
1891 -
Jules Grévy, President of France (b.
1813)
*
1898 -
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b.
1842)
*
1901 -
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b.
1864)
*
1909 -
Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b.
1848)
*
1915 -
Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b.
1850)
*
1960 -
Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b.
1911)
*
1976 -
Mao Zedong, President of China(b.
1893)
*
1978 -
Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b.
1892)
*
1980 -
John Howard Griffin, American writer (b.
1920)
*
1981 -
Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b.
1901)
*
1985 -
Paul Flory, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1910)
*
1990 -
Doc Cramer, baseball player (b.
1905)
* 1990 -
Samuel Doe,
President of Liberia*
1993 -
Helen O'Connell, American singer (b.
1920)
*
1997 -
Burgess Meredith, American actor (b.
1907)
*
1999 -
Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball player (b.
1946)
*
2001 -
Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader
*
2003 -
Larry Hovis, American actor (b.
1936)
* 2003 -
Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b.
1908)
*
2004 -
Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b.
1930)
*
2005 -
John Wayne Glover, English
North Shore Granny Murderer (b.
1932)
*
Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna
*
Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (
Kiku no Sekku)
*
North Korea -
Republic Day (
1948)
*
Tajikistan -
Independence Day (from USSR,
1991)
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California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA)
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