Sept. 9 historic events
1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling. (She was executed for treason at age 44 under the orders of her cousin Elizabeth.)
1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1893 President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president’s child to be born in the White House.
1914 Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1922 Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
1926 The U.S. 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: 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 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
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. Ir was discovered by Grace Hopper, removed with tweasers from a relay, and taped into the log. (Yes, this is where the term “computer bug” comes from.)
1948 The Republic Day of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. (“Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” – three lies in one four-word title.)
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0).
1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana. ( New air-safety regulations were developed as a result of this crash.)
1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1976 Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82. (His “cultural revolution”, “long march”, and other actions cost millions of innocents their lives.)
1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. (Arafat [ym”s] explained to Arab audiences that this was merely a step in the eventual conquest of the entire Israel, similar to a treaty that Muhammed only abided by until he was militarily strong, at which point he tore it up.)
1995 Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th Metropolitan Transportation Authority station to close since 1904.
1999 The Dreamcast, the last video game console to be produced by SEGA, is released.
2001 Afghanistan’s military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists. (Massood was murdered by Al-Qaeda to prevent his helping U.S. efforts against the Taliban and themselves after the planned 9/11 attacks.)
2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command. (But not before becoming the object of the famous “Great job, Brownie!” line.)