September 9
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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253th in
leap years). There are 113 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was defeated.\n*1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States.\n*1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.\n*1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.\n*1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.\n*1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.\n*1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized.\n*1926 - The National Broadcasting Company formed.\n*1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.\n*1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.\n*1944 - World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia.\n*1945 - Admiral Grace Hopper discovers the first computer bug - a moth.\n*1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is created.\n*1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.\n*1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.\n*1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.\n*1971 - A Riot at a prison in Attica, New York.\n*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".\n*2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
Births
\n*1585 - Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642)\n*1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)\n*1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)\n*1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician (d. 1896)\n*1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace) (d. 1910)\n*1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)\n*1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)\n*1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)\n*1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)\n*1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player\n*1899 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984)\n* 1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)\n*1903 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer\n*1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer\n*1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)\n*1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator\n*1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976\n*1924 - Jane Greer, actress\n*1925 - Cliff Robertson, Academy Award-winning actor.\n*1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz musician (d. 1975)\n*1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor\n*1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer\n*1941 - Peter Bonetti, British soccer goalkeeper\n* 1941 - Otis Redding, singer and songwriter (d. 1967)\n* 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist\n*1946 - Billy Preston, musician\n*1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports commentator.\n*1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer.\n* 1951 - Michael Keaton, actor\n*1952 - Dave Stewart, musician, Eurythmics\n*1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor (Nine Months, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary)\n*1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger\n* 1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates)\n*1970 - Macy Gray, singer
Deaths
\n*701 - Pope Sergius I\n*1000 - Olaf I of Norway\n*1087 - king William I of England\n*1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse\n*1513 - king James IV of Scotland\n*1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter\n*1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur\n*1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer\n*1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader\n*1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder\n*1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress\n*1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian president\n*1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor\n*1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer\n*2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader\n*2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
Holidays and observances
\n*North Korea's National Day
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