Historical Events on September 9

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• 701 St Sergius I reign as Catholic Pope ends

• 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.

• 1553 The Roman Inquisition burns all copies of the Talmud and other Jewish texts in Rome's Campo de Fiori

• 1567 Dutch leaders Lomaraal, Count of Egmont and Philip van Hoorne arrested by Spanish Duke of Alba - their execution in 1568 leads to the Eighty Years' War
• 1570 Cyprian city of Nicosia falls to the Ottomans, afterwards an estimated 20,000 citizen are massacred and the rest sold into slavery
• 1583 Sinking of the English ship Squirrel off the Azores with explorer and founder of Newfoundland, Humphrey Gilbert, on board
• 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 Stono slave rebellion, South Carolina: 60 slaves kill about 20 white people before being killed or later executed. Largest slave uprising in British mainland colonies before American Revolution [1]
• 1753 1st steam engine arrives in North American colonies
• 1767 Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas - the oldest continuously operating educational institution in Mexico, opens for the education of girls and women in Mexico City [1]
• 1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from 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, a dsstance of about 25 miles, covered in 3 hours

• 1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
• 1841 Tom Hyer beats George McChester in 101 rounds at Caldwell's Landing, NY to become first American heavyweight boxing champion
• 1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union
• 1850 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
• 1861 Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army

• 1863 Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
• 1867 Luxembourg gains its independence
• 1875 Lotta's Fountain (corner Kearny & Market) dedicated in San Francisco
• 1880 Rutherford B. Hayes visits San Franicsco
• 1881 Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
• 1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized

• 1892 Edward Emerson Barnard at Lick Observatory discovers Amalthea, Jupiter's 5th moon
• 1892 Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to the people of Queensland issued, detailing grievances of working class towards ruling class. Pivotal document in Australian labor and political history. [1]
• 1895 American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
• 1898 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders

• 1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel in Switzerland inaugurated
• 1904 Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
• 1904 Mounted police first appear in NYC

• 1908 Russia annexes part of Poland
• 1909 China's Metropolitan Library established by the Qing Dynasty in Beijing Guanghua temple (now the National Library of China) [1]

• 1911 1st European post delivered by air (Hendon to Windsor, England)
• 1912 French aviator Jules Védrines is the first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
• 1913 Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first pilot to fly a loop, doing so in his Nieuport IV monoplane; he is arrested for ten days for endangering government property
• 1914 -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp
• 1914 Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
• 1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
• 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 the Study of Negro Life and History formed in Chicago by Carter G. Woodson and others. Now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
• 1918 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
• 1919 Boston's police force goes on strike

• 1921 Guatemala, Honduras and San Salvador agree to Central American Union
• 1922 St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
• 1922 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna and murder Greek citizens
• 1923 Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
• 1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
• 1926 National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
• 1926 Train disaster at Wassenaar, Netherlands, 4 die

• 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 ends
• 1932 Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
• 1932 Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River with 71 killed
• 1936 New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 12-9 at League Park to clinch AL pennant on the 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 and old males in Batavia
• 1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome

• 1943 US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
• 1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
• 1944 Red Army supports coup in Bulgaria, instituting new Communist government (1946-1990) during the "National Uprising"
• 1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands
• 1944 US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders

• 1945 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

• 1945 Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Browns, 1-0
• 1948 Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
• 1949 Pacific Airlines flight explodes en route to Baie-Comeau, killing 23 people. A passenger's husband Albert Guay later sentenced and hanged along with two others for first bombing of a Canadian plane [1]
• 1950 1st use of TV laugh track by "The Hank McCune Show" in the US
• 1950 Mass arrests of communists in France
• 1951 1st broadcast of soap opera "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
• 1953 WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Earthquake strikes Orleansville (now Chlef), Algeria: 1,250 killed with many aftershocks
• 1954 Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
• 1955 Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
• 1956 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms

• 1957 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited

• 1958 Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
• 1960 Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League's first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
• 1960 Pakistan ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games
• 1962 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
• 1962 WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1963 NBC expands "The Huntley–Brinkley Report", their evening television news program, from 15 to 30 minutes
• 1964 German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
• 1964 John Osborne's "Inadmissible Evidence" premieres in London

• 1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

• 1967 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
• 1967 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
• 1968 WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1969 Allegheny Airlines flight 853 collides with a Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills all 83 occupants
• 1969 The Official Languages Act comes into force in Canada - making English and French the country's official languages (replaced 1988 by new Official Languages Act) [1]
• 1969 WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1970 Feyenoord wins soccer's Club World Cup

• 1971 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison

• 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
• 1971 NHL great Gordie Howe retires (for the first time), after 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings
• 1972 Connection found between Mammoth Cave Ridge and Flint cave systems in Kentucky, joining 144 miles of passages - making it the world's longest known cave system (later mapped at 420 miles) [1]
• 1972 Soviet runner Lyudmila Bragina with a world record 4:01.38 wins the women's 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with US leading 50-49 the final 3 seconds is replayed 3 times until the Soviets finally win
• 1972 West German equestrian rider Liselott Linsenhoff follows her dressage teams gold in Mexico City with the individual dressage title at her home Olympics in Munich

• 1975 Viking 2 Mars probe launches
• 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 Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
• 1978 3rd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-0

• 1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
• 1979 31st Emmy Awards: "Taxi"; "Lou Grant"; Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon win

• 1979 South African Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; first RSA champion
• 1981 Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League in the US
• 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)

• 1985 Race riot in Birmingham, England
• 1986 Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
• 1986 NYC jury indicts Soviet United Nations employee Gennadly Zakharov of spying
• 1987 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline" to cheating on his wife

• 1988 "Look Away" single released by Chicago (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
• 1988 MLB Atlanta Braves Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers & Gooses Gossage with 300 MLB career saves
• 1988 US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose
• 1990 George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
• 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

• 1991 Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
• 1992 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
• 1992 MLB player Robin Yount, is 17th to reach 3,000 hits
• 1993 Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
• 1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
• 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 Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
• 1997 Sinn Féin accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament

• 2001 At 01:46:40 UTC the time on the Unix clock in milliseconds passes 1 billion since January 1, 1970, which Unix systems recognize as zero-time

• 2002 MLB Arizona Diamondbacks' lefthanded pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
• 2004 Bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people
• 2009 Cyprus enters recession after 0.6% contraction in the first quarter, followed by 0.4% in the second quarter

• 2012 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
• 2012 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
• 2012 Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
• 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 60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic
• 2013 Erna Solberg is elected Prime Minister of Norway after a centre-right coalition wins a majority in their elections

• 2015 Apple unveils the iPad Pro and iPhone 6S in San Francisco
• 2015 EU Migrant Crisis: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual address proposes plan based on EU quotas

• 2016 North Korea conducts its fifth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, at the time its largest ever test at 10 kilotons but superseded by the 2017 test
• 2017 Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt
• 2018 Arirang Mass Games begins in North Korea to mark country's 70th anniversary featuring tens of thousands performing
• 2018 CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in "The New Yorker"
• 2018 Green Bay Packers start 100th season with historic 24-23 comeback win over Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; first ever Packer recovery from 17+ points deficit at 3/4 time (20-3)
• 2018 Russian police detain over 1000 people amid nationwide protests against pension reform
• 2018 Swedish General Election: no party wins a majority with far-right Sweden Democrats making gains
• 2019 Australia experiences its earliest and most severe start to the fire season after fighting dozens of bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales

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