What happened on September 9? There are more than 338 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 9
September 9 is the 253rd day of the year 2024. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 37th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Clint, Texas 79836 sunrise will occur at 06:44 AM and sunset will occur at 07:19 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 142 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 9
- 9Arminius’ alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
- 337Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
- 1000Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 1379Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1493Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1513James 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.
- 1543Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1561The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1739Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1791Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 1801Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
- 1839John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
- 1855Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1863American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1886The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1914World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1922The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1923Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 1924Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1926The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1939Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- 1939World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1940George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1942World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- 1943World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944World 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.
- 1945Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1947First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1956Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965Hurricane 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.
- 1965The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1966The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1969In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1970A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- 1971The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1972In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- 19901990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 1991Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1993The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 1999The beginning of the Y2K bug and debut of the Dreamcast.
- 2001Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- 2001At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
- 2001Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
- 20042004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2009At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
- 2010A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1000 ft high.
Who Were Born On September 9?
- 214Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
- 384Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
- 1349Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- 1427Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
- 1466Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
- 1558Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
- 1585Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- 1629Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
- 1700Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
- 1711Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
- 1721Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (d. 1808)
- 1731Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
- 1737Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)
- 1755Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
- 1777James Carr, U.S. Congressman (d. 1818)
- 1778Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
- 1828Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1834Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
- 1853Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
- 1855Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
- 1855Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-German author of books on nationalism and race (d. 1927)
- 1863Herbert Henry Ball, Ontario Politician and King’s Printer (d. 1943)
- 1868Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
- 1872Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese nationalist (d. 1926)
- 1873Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1877Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
- 1877James Agate, British diarist and critic (d. 1947)
- 1878Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- 1878Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
- 1882Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1885Miriam Licette, English operatic soprano (d. 1969)
- 1887Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1890Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1892Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
- 1894Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
- 1894Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
- 1894Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian politician and trade unionist (d. 1950)
- 1898Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1899Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
- 1899Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1899Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1900James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
- 1901James Blades, British percussionist (d. 1999)
- 1903Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1904Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
- 1904Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1905Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher (d. 1981)
- 1905Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (d. 1987)
- 1908Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
- 1911John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister (d. 2002)
- 1911Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
- 1914John Passmore, Australian philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1917Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
- 1918Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic
- 1919Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
- 1919Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
- 1920Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1920Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2008)
- 1920Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1922Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1922Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
- 1922Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
- 1923Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1923Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
- 1923Rosita Sokou, Greek journalist, author, playwright and translator
- 1924Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1924Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- 1924Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
- 1926Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
- 1927Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
- 1928Sol LeWitt, American artist (d.2007)
- 1929Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
- 1930Francis Carroll, Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop
- 1930Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
- 1931Margaret Tyzack, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1931Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor (d. 1976)
- 1932Sylvia Miles, American actress
- 1935Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1935Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
- 1938Jay Ward, American baseball player
- 1939Arthur Dignam, Australian actor
- 1939Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
- 1939Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1939Ron McDole, American football player
- 1940Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman
- 1940Joe Negroni, American singer
- 1941Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
- 1941Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1942Danny Kalb, American musician, (Blues Project)
- 1942Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
- 1943Art LaFleur, American actor
- 1945Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
- 1946Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
- 1946Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
- 1946Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
- 1947David Rosenboom, American composer
- 1947Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter
- 1948Pamela Des Barres, American groupie and author
- 1949Daniel Pipes, American writer and political commentator
- 1949Garry Maddox, American baseball player
- 1949Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
- 1949John Curry, British figure skater (d. 1994)
- 1949Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
- 1951Alexander Downer, Australian politician
- 1951Robert Desiderio, American actor
- 1951Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
- 1952Angela Cartwright, American actress
- 1952David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
- 1952Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
- 1953John McFee, American singer, songwriter, guitarist
- 1954Jeffrey Combs, American actor
- 1955John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
- 1957Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
- 1957Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
- 1959Eric Serra, French composer
- 1959Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
- 1960Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey head coach
- 1960Bob Stoops, American football coach
- 1960Hugh Grant, English actor
- 1963Alexandros Alexiou, Greek footballer
- 1963Chris Coons, American politician, junior senator of Delaware
- 1963Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
- 1965Constance Marie, American actress
- 1965Dan Majerle, American basketball player
- 1965Todd Zeile, American baseball player
- 1966Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
- 1966Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player
- 1967Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
- 1967Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
- 1967B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
- 1967Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
- 1968Clive Mendonca, English footballer
- 1968Francois Botha, South African boxer
- 1968Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
- 1968Julia Sawalha, English actress
- 1969Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician
- 1969Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
- 1970Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
- 1971Eric Stonestreet, American actor
- 1971Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
- 1972Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
- 1972Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
- 1972Mike Hampton, American baseball player
- 1972Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
- 1973Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
- 1974Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
- 1974Divine Brown, Canadian singer
- 1974Marcos Curiel, American guitarist (P.O.D.), songwriter, producer.
- 1974Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
- 1974Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
- 1974Vikram Batra, Indian soldier (d. 1999)
- 1975Michael Bublé, Canadian/Italian singer and actor
- 1976Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
- 1976Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
- 1976Emma de Caunes, French film actress
- 1976Joey Newman, American film composer
- 1976Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
- 1976Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, Borknagar)
- 1977Chae Jung An, South Korean actress and singer
- 1977Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
- 1977Lambros Lambrou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1977Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
- 1977Stuart Price, British electronic musician, songwriter, and record producer
- 1978Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
- 1978Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
- 1978Shane Battier, American basketball player
- 1979Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
- 1979Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer
- 1980Michelle Williams, American actress
- 1980Todd Coffey, American baseball player
- 1981Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
- 1982Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress
- 1982Graham Onions, English cricketer
- 1982John Kuhn, American football player
- 1982Rômulo Eugênio Togni, Brazilian footballer
- 1983Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
- 1983Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
- 1983Katy Steele, Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter for Little Birdy
- 1983Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
- 1983Kristine Hermosa, Filipina actress
- 1983Kyle Davies, American baseball player
- 1983Vitolo, Spanish footballer
- 1984Brad Guzan, American footballer
- 1984Farrah Gray, American author
- 1984James Hildreth, English cricketer
- 1984Michalis Sifakis, Greek footballer
- 1985J. R. Smith, American basketball player
- 1985Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
- 1985Sacha Kljestan, American footballer
- 1985Yung Berg, American rapper
- 1986Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
- 1986Michael Bowden, American baseball player
- 1987Afrojack, Dutch music producer and DJ
- 1987Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987Joshua Herdman, English actor
- 1987Milan Stanković, Serbian pop and folk singer
- 1988Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
- 1988Manuela Arbeláez, Colombian model
- 1990Haley Reinhart, American singer
- 1990Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
- 1991Hunter Hayes, American singer
- 1991Kelsey Chow, American actress
- 1992Damian McGinty, Irish singer
- 1992Frencheska Farr, Filipina singer
- 2000Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish royalty
Who Died On September 9?
- 1000Olaf I of Norway
- 1087King William I of England
- 1398King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
- 1438King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
- 1487Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- 1488Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
- 1513King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
- 1569Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
- 1583Sir Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer, adventurer (b. c.1539)
- 1596Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen (b. 1523)
- 1612Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- 1676Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
- 1680Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1755Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
- 1806William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
- 1815John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- 1834James Weddell, British sailor, explorer of Antarctic seas (b. 1787)
- 1841A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
- 1891Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
- 1898Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- 1907Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
- 1909Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
- 1910Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American solicitor General (b.1859)
- 1915Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- 1934Roger Fry, English artist and critic (b. 1866)
- 1941Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
- 1943Charles McLean Andrews, American historian (b. 1863)
- 1945Max Ehrmann, American poet (Desiderata) (b. 1872)
- 1955Carl Friedberg, German pianist (b. 1872)
- 1958Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer (b. 1886)
- 1960Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
- 1969Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
- 1975John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1976Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader (b. 1893)
- 1976Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years (b. 1886)
- 1978Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
- 1978Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film executive (b. 1892)
- 1979Norrie Paramor, British conductor, arranger (b. 1914)
- 1980John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
- 1981Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
- 1981Sir Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
- 1984Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor, film director (b. 1937)
- 1985Antonino Votto, Italian opera conductor (b. 1896)
- 1985Neil Davis, Australian cameraman (b. 1934)
- 1985Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1986Magda Tagliaferro, BRazilian classical pianist (b. 1893)
- 1990Alexander Men, Russian priest (b. 1930)
- 1990Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1990Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
- 1990Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
- 1992Willie Fennell, Australian comedian, actor (b. 1920)
- 1993Helen O'Connell, American singer, actress and dancer (b. 1920)
- 1994Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1996Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
- 1997Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1997General Sir John Hackett, Australian-British soldier, author (b. 1910)
- 1997Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1998Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
- 1999Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
- 1999Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
- 1999Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2000Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
- 2001Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader (b. 1953)
- 2003Don Willesee, Australian politician (b. 1916)
- 2003Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
- 2003Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2004Roland Sherwood “Ernie” Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
- 2005John Wayne Glover, Australian serial killer (b. 1932)
- 2006Émilie Mondor, Canadian olympic athlete (b. 1981)
- 2006Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2006Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
- 2006Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
- 2006William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
- 2007Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
- 2007Vasyl Kuk, Ukrainian nationalist, last leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (b. 1913)
- 2008Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (b. 1944)
- 2008Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)
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