September 9
Appearance
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.
Births
- 214 – Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
- 1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 – William Bligh, British naval officer and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)
- 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910)
- 1852 – John Henry Poynting, British physicist (d. 1914)
- 1873 – Max Reinhardt, film and theatre director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1887 – Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1890 – Harland D. Sanders, American inventor of KFC (d. 1980)
- 1893 – Esther Cleveland, only person to be born in the White House (d. 1980)
- 1911 – John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former President of Italy
- 1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German physicist
- 1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Otis Redding, musician (d. 1967)
- 1941 – Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist
- 1949 – John Curry, British figure skater
- 1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
- 1952 – David Stewart, British musician (Eurythmics)
- 1960 – Hugh Grant, British actor
- 1961 – Matjaz Kek, Slovenian football coach
- 1962 – Liza Marklund, Swedish writer
- 1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer
- 1964 – John Hughes, Scottish football manager
- 1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
- 1968 – Julia Sawalha, British actress
- 1969 – Rachel Hunter, model
- 1972 – Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor
- 1975 – Michael Buble, Canadian singer
- 1977 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
- 1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
- 1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
- 1984 – Brad Guzan, American footballer
- 1985 – Luka Modric, Croatian footballer
- 1987 – Alex Song, Cameroonian footballer
Deaths
- 701 – Pope Sergius I
- 1000 – Olaf I of Norway
- 1087 – King William I of England (b. 1028)
- 1438 – King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
- 1487 – Chenghua, Chinese Emperor (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
- 1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- 1834 – James Weddell, British sailor (b. 1787)
- 1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- 1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American doctor (b. 1821)
- 1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods maker (b. 1850)
- 1941 – Hans Spemann, German doctor and zoologist, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1869)
- 1960 – Jussi Bjorling, Swedish opera singer (b. 1911)
- 1976 – Mao Zedong, political leader (People's Republic of China) (b. 1893)
- 1978 – Jack Warner, American Hollywood studio founder (b. 1892)
- 1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
- 1983 – Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1901)
- 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian military officer and President of Liberia (b. 1951)
- 1990 – Doc Cramer, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1993 – Helen O'Connell, singer (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Burgess Meredith, actor (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1946)
- 2000 – Veerasamy Ringadoo, first President of Mauritius (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader (b. 1953)
- 2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (b. 1935)
Events
- 1000 – Battle of Swold – After it, King Olaf I of Norway commits suicide.
- 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 is 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, erupts 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. The Non-Turkic population flees.
- 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, founds the 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 is 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.
- 1976 – Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong dies aged 82.
- 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 becomes independent.
- 1999 – The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States
- 2000 – In the wake of inflation, Ecuador replaces its currency, the Sucre with the US dollar.
- 2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is 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.