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September 9th
Nothing incredibly significant there, apart from Mao dying, that one surprised me!
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1000-1899
1000 - Battle of Swold
1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III
1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV of Scotland was 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, erupted 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.
1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
1870 - Redmond, Washington founded
1886 - The Berne Convention is finalized.
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1900-1999
1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
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.
1945 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth 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.
1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
1971 - Attica Prison riots
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.
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2000-2099
2001, 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was 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.
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Births
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1300-1899
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria
1466 - Ashikaga Yo********ane, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1523)
1585 - Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman. (d. 1642)
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
1755 - Benjamin Bourne, politician (d. 1808)
1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian musician (d. 1896)
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace) (d. 1910)
1849 - Lucy Rider Meyer, physician, social worker, educator, Methodist deaconess
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, writer (d. 1934)
1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, poet
1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
1894 - Arthur Freed, songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player
1899 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984)
1899 - Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
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1900-1999
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, mystery writer
1905 - Joseph Levine, film producer
1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
1918 - Jimmy Snyder, bookmaker, sports commentator
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1976
1924 - Jane Greer, actress
1925 - Cliff Robertson, Academy Award-winning actor.
1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, jazz musician (d. 1975)
1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican world champion boxer
1941 - Peter Bonetti, British soccer goalkeeper
1941 - Otis Redding, singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist
1946 - Billy Preston, musician
1949 - Joe Theismann, American football star, sports commentator.
1951 - Tom Wopat, actor and singer.
1951 - Michael Keaton, actor
1952 - David A. Stewart, musician, Eurythmics
1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor (Nine Months, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary)
1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, 50 First Dates)
1970 - Macy Gray, singer
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Deaths
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700-1899
701 - Pope Sergius I
1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - King William I of England
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse
1513 - King James IV of Scotland
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1900-1999
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader
1978 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
1980 - John Howard Griffin, writer (b. 1920)
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress
1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian president
1990 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball center fielder (b. 1905)
1993 - Helen O'Connell, Big-band singer
1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor
1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball Hall of Famer
2000-2099
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader
2003 - Larry Hovis, actor
2003 - Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
Holidays and observances
National Day in Bulgaria (1944)
National Day in North Korea (1948)
Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)
Nothing incredibly significant there, apart from Mao dying, that one surprised me!
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