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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in Leap Year s). There are 113 days remaining.
Events
- 1000 - Battle Of Swold somewhere in the Baltic Sea between Norway and other Scandinavians.
- 1087 - William The Conqueror dies near Rouen, France.
- 1379 - Treaty Of Neuberg , splitting the Austria n Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III .
- 1493 - Battle Of Krbava Field , a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
- 1513 - James IV Of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle Of Flodden Field , ending Scotland 's involvement in the War Of The League Of Cambrai .
- 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 Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina .
- 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new Union of Sovereign states the United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the Constitution ).
- 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 U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation Debt .
- enters Chattanooga, Tennessee .
- 1886 - The Berne Convention For The Protection Of Literary And Artistic Works is finalized.
- , 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 founder of the Republic Of Turkey , founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).
- 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai , Hawaii .
- 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
- ese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon .
- land at Salerno and Taranto , Italy .
- is occupied by Soviet Union .
- formally surrenders to China .
- lodges in a Relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard University .
- 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic Of Korea
- 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 .
- 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland , Indiana .
- 1971 - Attica Prison Riots
- 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union .
- 1995 - Sony 's PlayStation game console was released in the US.
- 1999 - Sega 's Dreamcast game console was released in the US.
- - the Unix Billennium .
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud , leader of the Northern Alliance , is assassinated in Afghanistan .
- explodes outside the Australia n Embassy in Jakarta , killing 10 people.
- 2004 - Serbia n Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both Creationism and Evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.
Births
- 1349 - Duke Albert III Of Austria (d. 1395 )
- 1427 - Thomas De Ros, 10th Baron De Ros , English politician (b. 1464 )
- 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane , Japanese shogun (d. 1523 )
- 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke Of Mercoeur , French soldier (d. 1602 )
- 1585 - Armand Jean Du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu , French statesman (d. 1642 )
- 1629 - Cornelis Tromp , Dutch admiral (d. 1691 )
- 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson , American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780 )
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani , Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798 )
- 1754 - William Bligh , British naval officer (d. 1817 )
- 1755 - Benjamin Bourne , American politician (d. 1808 )
- 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy , Russian novelist (d. 1910 )
- 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse , English novelist (d. 1903 )
- 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921 )
- 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin , American writer (d. 1934 )
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt , German film director and actor (d. 1943 )
- 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey , American poet (d. 1914 )
- 1887 - Alf Landon , American politician (d. 1987 )
- 1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders , American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980 )
- 1894 - Arthur Freed , American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973 )
- 1894 - Bert Oldfield , Australian cricketer (d. 1976 )
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch , baseball player (d. 1973 )
- 1899 - Waite Hoyt , baseball player (d. 1984 )
- 1903 - Phyllis Whitney , American writer
- 1904 - Feroze Khan , Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005 )
- 1908 - Cesare Pavese , Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950 )
- 1911 - John Gorton , nineteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 2002 )
- 1918 - Jimmy Snyder , American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996 )
- 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III , American philanthropist (d. 1970 )
- 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 1924 - Jane Greer , American actress (d. 2001 )
- 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen , Belgian cyclist (d. 2003 )
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson , American actor
- 1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley , American musician (d. 1975 )
- 1929 - Claude Nougaro , French singer (d. 2004 )
- 1935 - Chaim Topol , Israeli actor
- 1939 - Ron McDole , American football player
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz , Puerto Rican boxer
- 1939 - George Lazenby , Australian actor
- 1941 - Peter Bonetti , British footballer
- 1941 - Otis Redding , American singer and songwriter (d. 1967 )
- 1941 - Dennis Ritchie , American computer scientist
- 1943 - Roger Waters , British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1946 - Bruce Palmer , Canadian musician ( Buffalo Springfield ) (d. 2004 )
- 1946 - Billy Preston , American musician
- 1949 - Joe Theismann , American football player and commentator
- 1951 - Alexander Downer , Australian politician
- 1951 - Tom Wopat , American actor and singer
- 1951 - Michael Keaton , American actor
- 1952 - David A. Stewart , English musician ( Eurythmics )
- 1954 - Jeffrey Combs , American actor
- 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard , French pianist
- 1960 - Hugh Grant , British actor
- 1960 - Mario Batali , American chef and restauranteur
- 1966 - Georg Hackl , German luger
- 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian
- 1967 - Anna Malle , Adult film star
- 1969 - Rachel Hunter , New Zealand model and actress
- 1974 - Mathias Färm , Swedish guitarist ( Millencolin )
- 1975 - Michael Bublé , Canadian pop jazz singer and actor
- 1982 - Ai Otsuka , Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1983 - Jurgen Mank , Swedish translator and father of 2
Deaths
- 701 - Pope Sergius I
- 1000 - Olaf I Of Norway
- 1087 - King William I Of England
- 1398 - King James I Of Cyprus (b. 1334 )
- 1487 - Chenghua , Emperor of China (b. 1447 )
- 1488 - Francis II, Duke Of Brittany ( Fell From A Horse ) (b. 1433 )
- 1513 - King James IV Of Scotland (b. 1473 )
- 1569 - Pieter Bruegel The Elder , Flemish painter
- 1596 - Anna Jagiellon , Polish Queen
- 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari , Japanese warlord (b. 1570 )
- 1680 - Henry Marten , English regicide (b. 1602 )
- 1755 - Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim , German historian (b. 1694 )
- 1806 - William Paterson , Signer of the U.S. Constitution , Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745 )
- 1815 - John Singleton Copley , American painter (b. 1738 )
- 1841 - Augustin Pyrame De Candolle , Swiss botanist (b. 1778 )
- 1891 - Jules Grévy , President of France (b. 1813 )
- 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet (b. 1842 )
- 1901 - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec , French painter (b. 1864 )
- 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman , American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848 )
- 1915 - Albert Spalding , baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850 )
- 1960 - Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (b. 1911 )
- 1976 - Mao Zedong , President of China(b. 1893 )
- 1978 - Jack Warner , Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892 )
- 1980 - John Howard Griffin , American writer (b. 1920 )
- 1981 - Jacques Lacan , French psychoanalyst (b. 1901 )
- 1985 - Paul Flory , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910 )
- 1990 - Doc Cramer , baseball player (b. 1905 )
- 1990 - Samuel Doe , President Of Liberia
- 1993 - Helen O'Connell , American singer (b. 1920 )
- 1997 - Burgess Meredith , American actor (b. 1907 )
- 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter , baseball player (b. 1946 )
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud , Afghani military leader
- 2003 - Larry Hovis , American actor (b. 1936 )
- 2003 - Edward Teller , Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908 )
- 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball , American businessman (b. 1930 )
- 2005 - John Wayne Glover , English North Shore Granny Murderer (b. 1932 )
Holidays and observances
External links
September 8 - September 10 - August 9 - October 9 – Listing Of All Days
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