Notable Historical Events on September 9th
September 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
701 |
St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1000 |
Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea. King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles 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 |
1543 |
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling. |
1556 |
Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor |
1561 |
Sermon of Poissy |
1567 |
Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured |
1591 |
-10] Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English |
1675 |
New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians |
1683 |
Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald |
1739 |
Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed) |
1753 |
1st steam engine arrives in US colonies |
1776 |
Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies) |
1817 |
Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a 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 1st glass plate photograph |
1841 |
Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 |
1850 |
Territories of New Mexico & Utah created |
1850 |
California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state |
1861 |
Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army |
1862 |
Robert E. Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry |
1863 |
Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN |
1867 |
Luxembourg gains independence |
1875 |
Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated |
1880 |
President Hayes visits SF |
1881 |
Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid" |
1886 |
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized. |
1892 |
E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon |
1895 |
American Bowling Congress forms (NYC) |
1898 |
Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders |
1899 |
French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds |
1903 |
6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated |
1904 |
Mounted police 1st used in NYC |
1904 |
Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913 |
1908 |
Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va |
1908 |
Russia takes part of Poland |
1909 |
Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
1911 |
1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) |
1912 |
J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) |
1913 |
Association for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago |
1914 |
-12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp |
1914 |
Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0 |
1914 |
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. |
1914 |
Meeting held at Gaelic League headquarters between Irish Republican Brotherhood and other extreme republicans; initial decision made to stage an uprising while Britain is at war |
1915 |
Association for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson |
1918 |
Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
1919 |
Boston's police force forms strike |
1922 |
St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0 |
1922 |
Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens |
1922 |
William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins |
1923 |
Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) |
1924 |
Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. |
1926 |
National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America |
1926 |
Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die |
1926 |
The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed. |
1927 |
Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium |
1928 |
Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ½" |
1932 |
Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning |
1932 |
Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended |
1932 |
Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy |
1932 |
Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed) |
1933 |
53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (6-3 11-13 4-6 6-0 6-1) |
1934 |
Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) |
1934 |
G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC |
1936 |
Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history |
1939 |
Nazi army reaches Warsaw |
1940 |
28 German aircraft shot down above England |
1942 |
1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes |
1942 |
Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia |
1943 |
15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome |
1943 |
Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick |
1943 |
Red Army occupies Bachmatsj |
1943 |
US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) |
1944 |
Allied forces liberate Luxembourg |
1944 |
Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
1944 |
Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth |
1944 |
US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders |
1944 |
Very strong hurricane hits Netherland |
1945 |
Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies |
1945 |
Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR |
1945 |
Phila A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0 |
1945 |
1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log |
1948 |
"Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs |
1948 |
Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0 |
1948 |
People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed |
1950 |
"Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs |
1950 |
"Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs |
1950 |
1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune |
1950 |
Mass arrests of communists in France |
1951 |
1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV |
1951 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
1953 |
KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Earthquake strikes Orleansville Algeria: 1,400 killed |
1954 |
Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season |
1955 |
Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run |
1955 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open |
1956 |
70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) |
1956 |
76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) |
1956 |
African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms |
1956 |
Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time |
1957 |
"Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 |
1957 |
Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited |
1957 |
US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction |
1958 |
Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game |
1958 |
Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London |
1960 |
4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) |
1961 |
Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962 |
1962 |
76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) |
1962 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
1962 |
Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses |
1962 |
WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
1964 |
German DR government allows short visits to West Germany |
1964 |
John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London |
1965 |
Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency |
1965 |
Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0) |
1965 |
Tibet is made an autonomous region of China |
1966 |
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
1967 |
1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V |
1967 |
Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968 |
1967 |
Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
1968 |
1st US Open, held as an "open", Arthur Ashe wins, defeating Tom Okker |
1968 |
WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 |
1969 |
Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 |
1969 |
Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) |
1969 |
WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun |
1970 |
Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup |
1971 |
1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison |
1971 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) |
1971 |
John Lennon releases "Imagine" album |
1971 |
NHL great Gordie Howe retires |
1972 |
86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) |
1972 |
Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973 |
1973 |
93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) |
1973 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1974 |
88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) |
1975 |
Viking 2 Mars probe launch |
1976 |
New Zealand government establishes the country's first centralised electronic database through the Wanganui Computer Act, raising questions about the state's ability to gather information on its citizens |
1977 |
1st TRS-80 computer sold |
1977 |
Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years |
1978 |
3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0 |
1978 |
92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) |
1978 |
Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) |
1978 |
Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army |
1978 |
Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979 |
1979 |
31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon win |
1979 |
93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) |
1979 |
99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (7-5 6-3 6-3) |
1979 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
1979 |
Sid Bernstein offers $½ billion for a Beatle reunion |
1981 |
Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
1982 |
"Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin NYC for 69 performances |
1982 |
Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5 |
1982 |
Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight |
1983 |
Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas |
1983 |
Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) |
1983 |
Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player |
1984 |
104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (6-3 6-4 6-1) |
1984 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
1985 |
President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
1985 |
Race riot in Birmingham, England |
1986 |
Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) |
1986 |
NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying |
1987 |
Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife |
1987 |
Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016 |
1987 |
Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59 |
1987 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter |
1988 |
Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games |
1988 |
Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu |
1988 |
US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose |
1989 |
103rd US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (3-6 7-5 6-1) |
1990 |
110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62) |
1990 |
Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces |
1990 |
Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year |
1990 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship |
1990 |
George H W Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
1991 |
Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington |
1991 |
Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland |
1992 |
1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home |
1992 |
9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman |
1992 |
Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits |
1993 |
Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times |
1993 |
PLO recognizes state of Israel |
1993 |
Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, (Kuchma) resigns |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit |
1994 |
Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed |
1995 |
"Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902) |
1995 |
109th US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-6 0-6 6-3) |
1995 |
Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904 |
1997 |
Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament |
1999 |
16th MTV Awards: Lauryn Hill & Will Smith wins |
2001 |
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan. |
2002 |
Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record |
2004 |
2004 A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. |
2007 |
24th MTV Awards: Rihanna f/ Jay-Z, Fergie & Justin Timberlake wins |
2009 |
Cyprus enters recession after 0.6% contraction in the first quarter, followed by 0.4% in the second quarter |
2010 |
A court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983 |
2012 |
17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria |
2012 |
100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq |
2012 |
Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad |
2012 |
Serena Williams wins her fourth women's tennis singles at the US Open |
2013 |
60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic |
2013 |
18 people are killed in conflict between government and Boko Harem troops in Borno State, Nigeria |
2013 |
44 people are killed and 45 are injured after a bus crashes into a ravine in Northern Guatemala |
2013 |
Erna Solberg is elected Prime Minister of Norway after a centre-right coalition wins a majority in their elections |
2013 |
Rafael Nadal defeats Novak Djokovic to win the 2013 US Tennis Open |
2016 |
North Korea confirms it has conducted fifth nuclear test |
2017 |
Battered Caribbean islands brace for 2nd major hurricane in a week |
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