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- 0701 St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1000 Battle of Svolder, Notable naval battle of the 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 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
- 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 officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1739 Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
- 1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1817 Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
- 1830 Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
- 1839 John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph
- 1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
- 1850 California becomes the 31st state admitted to the US.
- 1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 New Mexico and Utah become US territories.
- 1850 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
- 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.
- 1862 Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
- 1867 Luxembourg gains independence
- 1875 Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
- 1880 President Hayes visits SF
- 1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1892 Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard at Lick
- 1901 French painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec dies.
- 1904 New York City employs mounted police for the first time.
- 1906 Cpl. Leo Clark (2nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Pozières France
- 1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
- 1911 The first airmail service (British Post Office)
- 1912 J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
- 1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1919 Boston's police force goes on strike
- 1922 Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
- 1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1926 NBC radio, part of RCA, is incorporated.
- 1926 National Broadcasting Co created by the Radio Corporation of America
- 1926 The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
- 1942 The first bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Or (WW2)
- 1943 The Allies land in the Naples area.
- 1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
- 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 Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
- 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.
- 1947 Visitor posting - Karamba Bayo was born on September 09, 1947 at Boke - Guinea west africa
- 1948 North Korea (The People's Democratic Republic of Korea) is created.
- 1948 People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
- 1948 The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- 1950 Visitor posting - Debbie Bergen is born @ the French Hospital in NYC to Helen & Warren - USA
- 1950 The first use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
- 1957 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
- 1963 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
- 1964 Visitor posting - September 9 1964 Melody Cesare was born
- 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.
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- 1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
- 1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1968 The fir1st US Open, Arthur Ashe wins
- 1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana - kills 82
- 1970 Visitor posting - Joe Anthony Aguilar was born. - USA
- 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 1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison
- 1971 Attica Prison riots.
- 1971 Detroit Red Wings hockey star Gordie Howe retires.
- 1971 Forty-three people are killed when prisoners seize control of New York's Attica prison.
- 1971 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album
- 1972 Visitor posting - Laurie Plante born. Blueberry is my puppy - USA
- 1972 Visitor posting - Lillie Salinas marries Kurt Novak in Kingsville, Texas! - USA
- 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
- 1975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
- 1976 Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung dies in Beijing at age 82.
- 1979 At age 16, Tracy Austin becomes the youngest player ever to win the US Open women's tennis title.
- 1979 John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis, for the US Open Tennis title
- 1979 Sid Bernstein offers $« billion for a Beatle reunion
- 1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
- 1981 Visitor posting - September 9 1981 At 12:01 p.m., CST, DST, Travis Berzas was born
- 1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
- 1982 Former movie star Princess Grace of Monaco dies from injuries suffered from an earlier car accident.
- 1983 Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
- 1983 Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat the 100th ranked male tennis player
- 1984 John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl, for the US Open Tennis title
- 1986 NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
- 1986 The first colorized classic movie (computerized color added to an originally black and white movie) appears on Ted Turner's WTBS "Superstation" in Atlanta, GA.
- 1987 Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline"
- 1988 US swamps New Zealand at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal
- 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Black Box - Ride On Time
- 1989 Visitor posting - James Clark and Kari Hayes were wed in Burns, Wyoming
- 1989 Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the US Open championship
- 1990 Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
- 1991 Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1994 achin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against Australia in Sri Lanka.
- 1996 Visitor posting - September 9,1996 Artiasha Racquel Shane: P.O.F.O.L.A.P was born with big long feet and adored by all. She was so beautiful
- 1999 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jim Catfish" Hunter dies in Hertford, NC, at age 53.
- 1999 The Sega Dreamcast launches.
- 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.
- 2004 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2004 Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica 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.
- 2007 Britney Spears is the opening act of the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards, after years out of the spotlight.
- 2007 The Indy Pro Series race at Chicagoland Speedway records the closest finish in racing history, with Logan Gomez holding off his teammate Alex Lloyd by 0.0005 of a second, or 1.65 inches.
- 2007 Wikipedia's 2,000,000th article in the English language version.
- 2008 Shares of Lehman plunge 52% (between Sept 08 and 09)amid worries the investment bank is trying to find new investors and raise money
- 2010 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Fitr: September 9, 2010
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