September 9

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

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.
• 1971 - Riot at a prison in Attica, New York
• 1965 - Adam Sandler American actor, comedian
• 1966 - National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act[?] signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson
• 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
• 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

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