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September 9

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

Aug - September - Oct
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated.
• 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.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
• 1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized.
• 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.
• 1945 - Admiral Grace Hopper discovers the first computer bug - a moth.
• 1948 - The 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 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
• 1971 - A Riot at a prison in Attica, New York.
• 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".
• 2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.

Births

• 1585 - Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642)
• 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
• 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
• 1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician (d. 1896)
• 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace) (d. 1910)
• 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
• 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
• 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, 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 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer
• 1941 - Peter Bonetti, British soccer goalkeeper
• 1941 - Otis Redding, singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
• 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist
• 1946 - Billy Preston, musician
• 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports commentator.
• 1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer.
• 1951 - Michael Keaton, actor
• 1952 - Dave Stewart, musician, Eurythmics
• 1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor (Nine Months, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary)
• 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
• 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates)
• 1970 - Macy Gray, singer

Deaths

• 701 - Pope Sergius I
• 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
• 1087 - king William I of England
• 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse
• 1513 - king James IV of Scotland
• 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
• 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
• 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
• 1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader
• 1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
• 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress
• 1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian president
• 1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor
• 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader
• 2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"

Holidays and observances

• North Korea's National Day

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