September 9

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[edit] Births

• 1907 - Horst Wessel
• 1941 - Otis Redding, musician (d. 1967)
• 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist

[edit] Deaths

• 701 - Pope Sergius I
• 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
• 1087 - King William I of England
• 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany
• 1513 - King James IV of Scotland
• 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter
• 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet
• 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
• 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
• 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods maker
• 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor
• 1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader
• 1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
• 1980 - John Howard Griffin, writer (b. 1920)
• 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia
• 1990 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer
• 1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor
• 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader
• 2003 - Larry Hovis, actor
• 2003 - Edward Teller, American]] physicist

[edit] Events

• 1000 - Battle of Swold
• 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III
• 1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated.
• 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
• 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston
• 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.
• 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1870 - Redmond, Washington founded
• 1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized.
• 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
• 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. Non-turkic population flees.
• 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the great founder of modern Turkey, has founded CHP.
• 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.
• 1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
• 1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created.
• 1954 - Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario
• 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.
• 1965 - Sandy Koufax throws a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs
• 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
• 1971 - Attica Prison riots
• 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.
• 1991 - Tajikistan became independent.
• 1999 - The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States
• 2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
• 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
• 2004 - A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing several people.
• 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced.