Notable Historical Events on July 9th
July 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
455 |
Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire. |
711 |
Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain |
1357 |
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague. |
1371 |
Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht |
1386 |
Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria |
1401 |
Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000 |
1517 |
Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen |
1536 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada |
1541 |
Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to help the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire. |
1553 |
Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades |
1553 |
Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, is proclaimed queen of England in succession to Edward VI, who died three days earlier having proclaimed both his half-sisters illegitimate. She reigned for nine days before being deposed by Mary Tudor, who had Jane executed the following February. |
1572 |
19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum |
1609 |
Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion |
1672 |
Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand |
1686 |
Germany, Sweden & Spain sign anti-French League of Augsburg |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion |
1755 |
Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British |
1755 |
British General E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War |
1766 |
British premier Rockingham resigns |
1776 |
Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY) |
1780 |
Denmark declares neutrality |
1790 |
Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet. |
1795 |
James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt |
1800 |
Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US |
1807 |
Treaties of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I. |
1810 |
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire. |
1815 |
1st natural gas well in US is discovered |
1815 |
King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France |
1815 |
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France. |
1816 |
Argentina declares independence from Spain |
1835 |
St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France |
1842 |
Notary Stamp Law passes |
1846 |
Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US |
1846 |
The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress. |
1852 |
Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada |
1853 |
Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan |
1860 |
Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas |
1862 |
Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky |
1863 |
R Morgan's: Indiana [->JUL 13] |
1863 |
Union troops enter Port Hudson |
1864 |
Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400 |
1867 |
An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer). |
1868 |
1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state) |
1869 |
Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented |
1872 |
Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me |
1876 |
Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC |
1877 |
First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only |
1878 |
An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo |
1891 |
8th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-2 6-1) |
1891 |
15th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim (6-4 1-6 7-5 6-0) |
1893 |
Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia |
1900 |
The Commonwealth of Australia is established by the British House of Commons |
1904 |
10th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL |
1908 |
CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms |
1910 |
Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude |
1914 |
1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY |
1915 |
Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa |
1916 |
1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany |
1917 |
British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 |
1918 |
101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn |
1918 |
Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal |
1922 |
Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute |
1926 |
Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander |
1926 |
Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal |
1927 |
Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia |
1932 |
Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms |
1932 |
Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record |
1932 |
The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution |
1933 |
Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles |
1934 |
SS-Reichsfuehrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps |
1937 |
72nd British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 290 at Carnoustie Golf Links |
1939 |
A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa |
1940 |
8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis |
1940 |
German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms |
1940 |
RAF bombs Germany |
1941 |
Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais is awarded his Ph.D. in Holland five days before a Nazi deadline banning Jews from receiving degrees |
1943 |
5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje |
1943 |
British air raid sinks U-435 |
1944 |
In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell |
1944 |
U-740 sinks |
1944 |
World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) |
1946 |
13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston |
1947 |
Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement |
1947 |
Spain votes for Franco monarchy |
1948 |
Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve |
1949 |
Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony premieres |
1949 |
78th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 283 at Royal St George's Golf Club |
1950 |
13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record) |
1951 |
US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
1953 |
1st helicopter passenger service (NYC) |
1953 |
Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games |
1955 |
First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow) |
1955 |
Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart |
1955 |
Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week |
1955 |
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London. |
1956 |
Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand |
1957 |
24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis |
1957 |
Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced |
1958 |
Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain |
1959 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open |
1959 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1962 |
Andy Warhol's first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles |
1963 |
34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve |
1963 |
All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants) |
1963 |
Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
1963 |
Federation of Malaysia forms |
1965 |
94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale |
1965 |
John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes |
1965 |
Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH |
1966 |
95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane |
1967 |
13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
1967 |
WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record) |
1968 |
39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston |
1968 |
All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants) |
1969 |
Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th |
1970 |
In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn |
1971 |
Henry Kissinger visits China PR |
1972 |
1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France) |
1972 |
86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75) |
1972 |
Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
1972 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972 |
Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana |
1972 |
Springhill Massacre: British snipers shoot dead five Catholic civilians and wounded two others in Springhill, Belfast. |
1972 |
The ceasefire between the Provisional IRA and the British Army comes to an end |
1973 |
9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel |
1974 |
Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election |
1975 |
The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system. |
1976 |
England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5 |
1976 |
Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0 |
1976 |
Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe |
1977 |
106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
1978 |
"Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 perfs |
1978 |
American Nazi Party holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago |
1978 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
1978 |
Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA |
1979 |
Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab |
1979 |
Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter |
1979 |
A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility. |
1980 |
7 die in a stampede to see Pope John Paul II in Brazil |
1980 |
Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years |
1980 |
Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound" released |
1981 |
Jacksons begin a 36-city tour |
1982 |
Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval |
1982 |
Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153 |
1984 |
12th Century York Minster damaged in lightening storm |
1984 |
Yvonne Ryding of Sweden crowned 33rd Miss Universe |
1985 |
South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong |
1986 |
Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740 |
1986 |
Attorney General's Commission on pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes |
1986 |
Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson |
1986 |
The New Zealand parliament pass the Homosexual Law Reform Bill legalising consensual sex between men aged 16 and older |
1987 |
1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime |
1987 |
Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence |
1988 |
Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR |
1988 |
Jessye Norman begins recording Bizet's "Carmen" |
1988 |
Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3 |
1989 |
103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64) |
1989 |
96th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats M Navratilova (6-2 6-7 6-1) |
1989 |
Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1989 |
Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others. |
1990 |
104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64) |
1990 |
Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts |
1991 |
"Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs |
1991 |
62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto |
1991 |
All star MVP: Cal Ripken Jr (Balt Orioles) |
1991 |
South Africa readmitted to Olympics |
1992 |
Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
1992 |
Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands |
1994 |
11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes) |
1994 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36) |
1994 |
Soyuz TM-19 lands |
1995 |
"Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 75 performances |
1995 |
109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62) |
1995 |
Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open (4th to win all 4 majors) |
1995 |
Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1995 |
US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce |
1995 |
Former South Africa President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation |
1996 |
67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila |
1996 |
All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers) |
1996 |
US Senate approves 90 cent raise to $4.25 minimum wage |
1997 |
Baseball's triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband |
1997 |
Mike Tyson is banned from boxing for biting Holyfield's ear |
1999 |
Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran. |
2000 |
107th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats L Davenport (6-3 7-6) |
2000 |
114th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats P Rafter (6-7 7-6 6-4 6-2) winning his 13th Grand Slam tennis title |
2000 |
Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe |
2001 |
115th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Goran Ivanišević beats P Rafter (6-3 3-6 6-3 2-6 9-7) |
2002 |
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. |
2002 |
73rd All Star Baseball Game: 7-7 tie when both teams ran out of available pitchers at Miller Park, Milwaukee |
2006 |
At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions. |
2006 |
Italy beats France 5-3 for soccer's 18th World Cup in Germany |
2006 |
120th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal (6-0 7-6 6-7 6-3) |
2009 |
Joe Sakic retires after 21 NHL seasons with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise, finishing with 625 goals and 1,641 points |
2011 |
South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan. |
2014 |
Joko Widodo is elected president of Indonesia |
2014 |
Typhoon Rammasun begins and kills 151 people |
2016 |
1st death related to Zika virus seen in continental US |
2016 |
'Bomb Robot' Takes Down Dallas Gunman, but Raises Enforcement Questions |
2016 |
UFC Star Jon Jones' Backup Sample Also Fails Doping Test |
2018 |
4 rescued from Thai cave in risky operation; 9 remain inside |
Keep in touch with us:
beta testing:
nothing here now
