September 9
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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253th in leap years). There are 113 days remaining.
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Events
- 1513 - In Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated
- 1776 - Continental Congress names the country the United States for the first time
- 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
- 1850 - California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.
- 1863 - Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence
- 1886 - Berne Convention is finalized.
- 1926 - National Broadcasting Company formed
- 1942 - A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon
- 1943 - Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy
- 1944 - Bulgaria is liberated by Russia
- 1945 - Admiral Grace Hopper discovers the first computer bug - a moth
- 1948 - Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created
- 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.
- 1966 - National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson
- 1971 - Riot at a prison in Attica, New York
- 2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium
Births
- 1585 - Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French leader († 1642)
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist
- 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer
- 1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician
- 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German director and actor
- 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician
- 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur
- 1894 - Arthur Freed, lyricist, film producer
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player
- 1899 - Billy Rose, composer
- 1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer
- 1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician and prime minister
- 1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator
- 1924 - Jane Greer, actress
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson, Academy Award winning actor
- 1928 - Julian Adderley, jazz musician
- 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer.
- 1941 - Peter Bonetti, British football goalkeeper
- 1941 - Otis Redding, singer, songwriter
- 1946 - Billy Preston, musician
- 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports commentator
- 1951 - Tom Wopat, actor, singer
- 1951 - Michael Keaton, actor
- 1952 - Dave Stewart, musician (The Eurhythmics)
- 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor
- 1965 - Adam Sandler American actor, comedian
- 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1970 - Macy Gray, singer
Deaths
- 701 - Pope Sergius I
- 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
- 1087 - William I of England
- 1513 - James IV of Scotland
- 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
- 1909 - Edward Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
- 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
- 1976 - Mao Tse-tung, Chinese leader
- 1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
- 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress
- 1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor
- 1999 - Jim Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader
Holidays and observances
See Also:
September 8 - September 10 - August 9 - October 9 - listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "September 9" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_9 September 9, 2003
