September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253th in leap years). There are 113 days remaining.
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. († 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 film director and actor. 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician. 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur. 1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer. 1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player 1899 - Billy Rose, composer 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer 1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer 1911 - John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia. 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 Adderley, jazz musician. 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. 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. 1965 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian. 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger. 1970 - Macy Gray, singer. 1981 - Dylan Klebold, one of the gunmen of the Columbine High School massacre 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 Henry 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 2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb" Holidays and observances North Korea's National Day 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
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