July 9
July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 175 days remaining.
Events
455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire .
1357 5:31 AM - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague
1540 - Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves .
1749 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg .
1755 - French and Indian War : Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
1789 - In Versailles , the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution .
1790 - Russo-Swedish War : Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea , the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 - Act Against Slavery passes in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain
1846 - By an act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac (39 mi˛ or about 100 km˛) was returned to Virginia.
1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States .
1893 - Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open heart surgery at Provident Hospital in Chicago .
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech .
1900 - Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government .
1918 - Great train wreck of 1918 : In Nashville, Tennessee , an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101.
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1942 - Holocaust : Anne Frank 's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1943 - World War II : Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily .
1944 - World War II: British and Canadian forces capture Caen .
1945 - A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn , the third fire in that area since 1933 .
1968 - Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London 's South Bank .
1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground.
1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca , killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1991 - International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec .
1991 - South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1992 - Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
1997 - Mike Tyson 's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield 's ear in a televised match.
1999 - Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran
2004 - After José Manuel Durăo Barroso 's appointment to the European Commission , Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD , Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.
Births
1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305 )
1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
1764 - Ann Radcliffe , English writer (d. 1823 )
1775 - Matthew Lewis , English novelist (d. 1818 )
1808 - Alexander William Doniphan , American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887 )
1819 - Elias Howe , American inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1867 )
1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman , British Prime Minister & politician
1858 - Franz Boas , German cultural anthropologist (d. 1942 )
1900 - Ida Ehre , actress (d. 1989 )
1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland , romance novelist, step-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 2000 )
1908 - Paul Brown
1911 - Mervyn Peake , British writer and illustrator (d. 1968 )
1916 - Edward Heath , politician
1925 - Peter Ludwig , entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1996 )
1927 - Susan Cabot , actress
1927 - Ed Ames , actor
1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco , (d. 1999 )
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld , Secretary of Defense of the United States , (2001 - present)
1936 - June Jordan , American writer and teacher (d. 2002 )
1937 - David Hockney , artist (Pop art )
1938 - Brian Dennehy , actor
1942 - Richard Roundtree , actor
1943 - John Casper , US astronaut
1945 - Dean R. Koontz , fiction author
1946 - Bon Scott , singer: AC/DC (d. 1980 )
1947 - O. J. Simpson , football player, actor
1952 - John Tesh , composer
1955 - Jimmy Smits , actor
1980 - Leighton O'Connor , inventor author/poet
1956 - Tom Hanks , actor
1956 - Marc Almond , singer
1957 - Kelly McGillis , actress
1958 - Ursula Gupton , mother
1965 - Frank Bello , bassist in the Anthrax rock band
1965 - Courtney Love , musician
1965 - Marc Mero , professional wrestler
1971 - Marc Andreessen , software developer - co-author of Mosaic and cofounder of Netscape
1973 - Kelly Holcomb , American football quarterback
1975 - Jack White , musician with The White Stripes
1976 - Fred Savage , actor
1976 - Shelton Benjamin , professional wrestler
1978 - Linda Park , actress
Deaths
518 - Anastasius I , Byzantine emperor
1228 - Stephen Langton , Archbishop of Canterbury
1386 - Duke Leopold III of Austria in the Battle of Sempach
1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671 )
1797 - Edmund Burke , British philosopher and statesman
1850 - Siyyid Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad, also known as the Báb , founder of the Bábi Faith
1850 - Zachary Taylor , 12th US president (b. 1784 )
1856 - Amedeo Avogadro , chemist
1856 - James Strang , Mormon splinter group leader (assassinated)
1937 - Oliver Law , first African American commander of US troops, killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War
1938 - Benjamin Cardozo , US jurist
1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart , English-born Australian composer (b. 1874 )
1951 - Harry Heilmann , Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1894 )
1974 - Earl Warren , former governor of California , former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner , actress, author
1985 - Jimmy Kinnon ('Jimmy K.'), founder of Narcotics Anonymous
1992 - Eric Sevareid , reporter
1996 - Melvin Belli , attorney
2002 - Laurence Janifer , science fiction writer
2002 - Rod Steiger , actor
2003 - Winston Graham , author
2004 - Paula Danziger , author
2004 - Paul Klebnikov , journalist
2004 - Isabel Sanford , actress (b. 1917 )
Holidays and observances
External links
July 8 - July 10 - June 9 - August 9 -- listing of all days
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