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September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.
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 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 , 4th 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 teacher1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III , American philanthropist (d. 1970 )
1920 - Feng Kang , Chinese mathematician (d. 1993 )
1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate1922 - 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 actor1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi , prominent Egypt Muslim cleric1927 - Elvin Jones , American jazz drummer (d. 2004 )1929 - Claude Nougaro , French singer (d. 2004 )1930 - Frank Lucas , Drug Lord1932 - Sylvia Miles , American actress1935 - Chaim Topol , Israeli actor1935 - Gopal Baratham , Singaporean author
1939 - Bruce Gray , Puerto Rican actor1939 - 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 singer1943 - Art LaFleur , American actor1945 - Dee Dee Sharp , American R&B singer1946 - Bruce Palmer , Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield ) (d. 2004 )1946 - Doug Ingle , American musician (Iron Butterfly )
1946 - Hayato Tani , Japanese actor
1947 - David Rosenboom , American composer1948 - Pamela Des Barres , American groupie and author1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , Indonesian politician1949 - Garry Maddox , American baseball player
1949 - Joe Theismann , American football player and commentator
1951 - Alexander Downer , Australian politician1951 - Robert Desiderio , American actor
1951 - Tom Wopat , American actor and singer
1952 - Angela Cartwright , American actress1952 - Manuel Göttsching , German musician (Ash Ra Tempel )
1952 - David A. Stewart , English musician (Eurythmics )
1954 - Jeffrey Combs , American actor1955 - John Kricfalusi , Canadian animator1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard , French pianist1957 - Gabriele Tredozi , Italian engineer
1959 - Eric Serra , French composer1960 - Hugh Grant , English actor1960 - Mario Batali , American chef and restaurateur
1960 - Bob Stoops , American football coach
1963 - Roberto Donadoni , Italian football player and manager1965 - Dan Majerle , American basketball player1965 - Constance Marie , American actress
1966 - Georg Hackl , German luger1966 - Adam Sandler , American actor and comedian
1967 - Akshay Kumar , Indian Actor1967 - 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 boxer1968 - Jon Drummond , American former sprinter
1968 - Julia Sawalha , English actress
1968 - Clive Mendonca , English Footballer
1969 - Rachel Hunter , New Zealand model and actress1970 - Natalia Streignard , Venezuelan actress1971 - Henry Thomas , American actor and musician1972 - James Farmer , American educator and artist1972 - 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 player1974 - Shane Crawford , Australian rules footballer1974 - 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 actor1976 - Emma de Caunes , French film actress1976 - 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 singer1977 - Soulja Slim , American rapper (d. 2003 )
1977 - Kyle Snyder , American baseball player
1978 - Kurt Ainsworth , American baseball player1978 - Shane Battier , American basketball player
1978 - Mariano Puerta , Argentine tennis player
1979 - Nikki DeLoach , American actress and singer1980 - Todd Coffey , American baseball player1980 - Michelle Williams , American actress
1981 - Julie Gonzalo , Argentinian actress1982 - Ai Otsuka , Japanese singer and songwriter1983 - Kyle Davies , American baseball player1983 - 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
1984 - Brad Guzan , American footballer
1985 - J.R. Smith , American basketball player1985 - Luka Modrić , Croatian footballer
1986 - Justice Chibhabha , Zimbabwean cricketer1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute , Cameroonian basketball player
1986 - Michael Bowden , American baseball player
1987 - Joshua Herdman , English actor1987 - Alexandre Song , Cameroonian footballer
1990 - Melody Klaver , Dutch actress2000 - 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 painter1596 - Anna Jagiellon , Polish Queen1612 - 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
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