September 9

Events

*1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
*1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian 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 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.
*1791 - Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
*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.
*1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
*1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 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 - Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
*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.
*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: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
*1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
*1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard 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.
* 1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
*1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
*1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
*1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
*1971 - The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
*1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
*1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
*2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
*2004 - 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

Births

* 214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
* 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
*1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
*1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 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)
*1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
*1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
*1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
*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 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
*1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
*1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
*1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
*1862 - Léon Boëllmann, French composer (d. 1897)
*1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
*1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
*1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
*1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
* 1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4^th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
*1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
*1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
*1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
*1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
*1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
* 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
*1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
*1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
* 1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
*1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)
*1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
*1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
*1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
*1905 - Hussain Sha - Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram
*1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
*1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
* 1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
*1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
*1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
* 1919 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
*1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
* 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
* 1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
*1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
* 1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
*1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
* 1924 - Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
* 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
*1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
*1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
*1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
*1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
*1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
*1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress
*1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
* 1935 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
*1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
* 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
* 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
* 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
* 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
*1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
*1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
*1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
*1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
* 1946 - Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
* 1946 - Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
*1947 - David Rosenboom, American composer
*1948 - Pamela Des Barres, American groupie and author
*1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
* 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player
* 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
*1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
* 1951 - Robert Desiderio, American actor
* 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
*1952 - Angela Cartwright, American actress
* 1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
* 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
*1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
*1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
*1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
* 1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
*1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
*1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor
* 1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
* 1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
*1963 - Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
*1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player
*1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
* 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
*1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor
* 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
* 1967 - B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
* 1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
*1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer
* 1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
* 1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress
* 1968 - Clive Mendonca, English Footballer
*1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
* 1969 - Constance Marie, American actress
*1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
*1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
*1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist
* 1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player
* 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
* 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
* 1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
*1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
*1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
* 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
* 1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
* 1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
*1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
*1976 - Emma de Caunes, French film actress
* 1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
* 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
* 1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
* 1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
*1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
* 1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
* 1977 - Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
*1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
* 1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
* 1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
*1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
*1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
* 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress
*1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
*1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
*1983 - Kyle Davies, American baseball player
* 1983 - Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
* 1983 - Sam Hollenbach, American football player
* 1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
* 1983 - Kristine Hermosa, Filipina actress
* 1984 - James Hildreth, English Cricketer
*1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
* 1985 - Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
*1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
* 1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
* 1986 - Michael Bowden, American baseball player
*1987 - Joshua Herdman, English actor
* 1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
*1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
*2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

*c. 546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
* 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 (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)
*1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
*1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
*1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
*1806 - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
*1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
*1841 - A. P. 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)
*1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
*1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
*1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
*1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
*1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
*1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
*1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader (b. 1893)
*1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
* 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film executive (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, American baseball player (b. 1905)
* 1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
*1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
*1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
*1997 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
* 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
*1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
*1999 - Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
* 1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
* 1999 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
*2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
*2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
*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 serial killer (b. 1932)
*2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
* 2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
* 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
* 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
* 2007 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
*2008 - Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

* California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
* Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
* Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
* Japan - Chrysanthemum Day ("Kiku no Sekku").
* North Korea - Republic Day (1948).
* Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/9 BBC: On This Day]
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* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Sep&day=09 On This Day in Canada] ----