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.
   * 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