On this day in History - Sep 09

0384 - Flavius Honorius was born. Emperor East Roman Republic (395-423).

0701 - Pope Sergius I dies
1000 - Olaf I of Norway dies
1000 - Battle of Swold
1087 - King William I of England dies.

1261 - Nascimento de D. Diniz (O Lavrador). Rei e poeta Português.
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria was born (d. 1395)
1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III

1438 - Dom Duarte dies. King of Portugal (1433-38), writer.
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane was born (d. 1523). Japanese shogun.
1487 - Chenghua dies (b. 1447). Emperor of China.
1488 - Francis II dies (b. 1433). Duke of Brittany, (fell from a horse).
1513 - James IV of Scotland was defeated and died in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1556 - Pope Paul IV refused to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor.
1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur was born (d. 1602). French soldier.
1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder dies. Flemish painter.

1573 - André de Resende dies (b. 1495). Portuguese dominican/humanist.
1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu was born (d. 1642). French statesman.

1591 - Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English. Ver em Português excelente descrição no Blog "Naufrágios"

1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari dies (b. 1570). Japanese warlord.
1629 - Cornelis Tromp was born (d. 1691). Dutch admiral.
1680 - Henry Marten dies (b. 1602). English regicide.
1737 - Luigi Galvani was born (d. 1798). Italian physician and physicist.
1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston
1754 - William Bligh was born (d. 1817). British naval officer.
1755 - Benjamin Bourne was born (d. 1808). American politician.
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim dies (b. 1738). Painter.
1769 - Carta de lei portuguesa que sanciona o direito de renovação pela chamada equitativa batolina.
1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new country the United States.

1778 - Giambattista Piranesi dies. Italian architect.

1792 - Morte do bispo português Dom Bernardo Pinto Ribeiro Seixas. 1.º Bispo de Bragança e Miranda.

1828 - Leo Tolstoy was born (d. 1910). Russian novelist ("War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.” )
1834 - James Weddell dies (b. 1787). English navigator and explorer.
1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas was born (d. 1921). Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer
1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1867 - Luxembourg gained independence.
1868 - Mary Hunter Austin was born (d. 1934). American writer.
1870 - Redmond, Washington founded
1873 - Max Reinhardt was born (d. 1943). German film director and actor.
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey was born (d. 1914). American poet.

1878 - Sergio Osmeña was born. President of Philipines (1944-1946)
1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1887 - Alf Landon was born (d. 1987). American politician.

1888 - Nascia em Monforte, Alentejo, António Maria de Sousa Sardinha (m. 10 Jan 1925). Poeta e monárquico português.
1890 - Kurt Lewin was born (d. 1947). German psicologist
1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders was born (d. 1980). American fast food entrepreneur.
1892 - Edward Barnard descobre a lua de Júpiter Amalteia
1894 - Arthur Freed was born (d. 1973). American songwriter and film producer.
1898 - Frankie Frisch was born (d. 1973). Baseball player.
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé dies (b. 1842). French poet.
1899 - Waite Hoyt was born (d. 1984). Baseball player.
1899 - Billy Rose was born (d. 1966). American composer.

1900 - James Hilton was born. British novelist who authored "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye Mr. Chips" . In Lost Horizon he created the imaginary world of "Shangri-La.”
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec dies. French painter .

1902 - Nascimento de Roberto Noble. Fundador do jornal argentino Clarín
1903 - Phyllis Whitney was born. American writer.

1908 - Cesare Pavese was born. Italian writer.

1909 - Morre, em Paris, Sebastião Cícero dos Guimarães Passos (n. 22 Mar 1867). Poeta brasileiro, parnasiano de tipo erótico, por vezes pessimista(Dicionário de Rimas, Tratado de Versificação). Foi também político, tendo feito parte do governo revolucionário do Paraná e tendo posteriormente vivido exilado em Buenos Aires.

1909 - Kwame Nkrumah was born. President of Ghana (1960-66).

1909 - Edward Henry Harriman dies. Railroad entrepreneur.

1911 - John Gorton was born (d. 2002). Nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia
1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1915 - Albert Spalding dies. American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer.
1918 - Jimmy Snyder was born (d. 1996). American bookmaker and sports commentator.

1919 - Roberto Hernández Rodríguez was born. Mexican educator

1920 - Carlos Niemeyer was born. Brazilian film director

1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt was born. German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. Non-turkic population flees.
1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founded the Republican People's Party (CHP).
1923 - Hermes da Fonseca dies (b. 1855). President of Brasil (1910-1914
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was born. American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1924 - Jane Greer was born (d. 2001). American actress.
1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen was born (d. 2003). Belgian cyclist.
1925 - Cliff Robertson was born. American actor.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company formed.
1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was born (d. 1975). American musician.
1929 - Claude Nougaro was born (d. 2004). French singer.

1930 - Nascia José Águas. Futebolista português que representou o Benfica fazendo parte da equipa que se sagrou Campeã Europeia de clubes.

1933 - 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (6-3, 11-13, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1)

1935 - Chaim Topol was born. Israeli actor.

1937 - Mikhail N Tai was born in Latvia. World chess champion, 1960-61
1939 - Ron McDole was born. American football player
1939 - Carlos Ortiz was born. Puerto Rican boxer.

1940 - 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5)
1941 - Peter Bonetti, British footballer.
1941 - Otis Redding was born (d. 1967). American singer and songwriter (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie was born. American computer scientist.
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: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia from Nazi control (National Day)
1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrendered to China.
1946 - Bruce Palmer was born (d. 2004). Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield)
1946 - Billy Preston was born. American musician.
1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1949 - Joe Theismann was born. American football player and commentator
1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer.
1951 - Michael Keaton was born. American actor.
1952 - David A. Stewart was born. English musician (Eurythmics)
1954 - Jeffrey Combs was born. American actor.
1954 - Marilyn Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1956 - 70th U.S. Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) September 9, 1956 -76th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) September 9, 1956 - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms (PAIGC : Partido Africano para Independencia da Guiné e Cabo Verde)
1960 - Jussi Björling dies (b. 1911). Swedish tenor.
1960 - Hugh Grant was born. British actor (4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Month)
1961 - Marco Simmons was born. DJ & Musician.

1961 - Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962

1962 - 76th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (9-7 6-4)

1962 - 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (6-2 6-4 5-7 6-4)

1965 - Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 - Sandy Koufax throws a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs
1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
1966 - Georg Hackl was born. German luger.
1966 - Adam Sandler was born. American actor and comedian.

1967 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968

1967 - Uganda declares independence from Great Britain

1968 - Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win U.S. Tennis Open
1969 - Rachel Hunter was born. New Zealand model and actress.
1970 - Macy Gray was born. American singer.
1971 - Attica Prison riots

1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album

1972 - 86th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (6-3, 7-5)

1972 - Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973

1973 - 93rd U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (6-4 1-6 4-6 6-2 6-2)
1974 - Ana Carolina was born. Brazilian musician, composer and singer.

1974 - 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (3-6, 6-3, 7-5)

1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum
1976 - Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-Tung dies (b. 1893). Chinese Communist leader

1978 - 92nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64)
1978 - Jack Warner dies (b. 1892). Hollywood studio founder.

1979 - In the 31st Emmy Awards the winners included: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon.

1979 - 93rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (6-4, 6-3)

1979 - 99th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (7-5, 6-3, 6-3)
1980 - John Howard Griffin dies (b. 1920). Writer.
1980 - Michelle Williams was born. American actress
1981 - Jacques Lacan dies. French psicanalist.
1982 - Ai Otsuka was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.
1983 - Aaron Pryor beats Alexis Arguello by knockout in round ten of a rematch of their 1982 controversial fight, dubbed The Battle of The Champions.

1984 - 104th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (6-3, 6-4, 6-1) .

1988 - Eduardo Lourenço é agraciado com o Prémio Europeu de Ensaio Charles Veillon pelo seu Livro Nós e a Europa ou as Duas Razões.

1989 - West German Steffi Graf won the women's tennis title at the 103 rd U.S. Women Tennis Open in New York, defeating second-ranked Martina Navratilova (3-6, 7-5, 6-1)

1990 - Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi to win the US Open men’s title. (6-4, 6-3, 6-2)
1990 - Samuel Doe is killed after being captured by rebels. Doe was tortured by rivals and bled to death after an ear was cut off. President of Liberia
1990 - Doc Cramer dies (b. 1905). Major League Baseball player.

1991 - Boxer Mike Tyson was indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant. Tyson was later convicted.
1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - Helen O'Connell dies. Singer.

1995 - 109th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-6, 0-6, 6-3)
1995 - The Sony Playstation is released in the United States

1995 - Morte da escultora boliviana Marina Nuñez del Prado (n. 17 Out 1910)

1995 - No Festival de Veneza, o filme de João César Monteiro A Comédia de Deus recebe o Prémio Especial do Júri ex aequo com o filme de Giuseppe Tornatore O Homem das Estrelas.
1997 - Burgess Meredith dies. Actor
1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter dies. Baseball Hall of Famer
1999 - The Sega Dreamcast is released in the United States
1999 - Final Fantasy VIII is released in the United States

1999 - Ruth Roman (75) dies in Laguna Beach, California. Actress.
2001 - 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.

2001 - Lleyton Hewitt ran down Pete Sampras to earn his first Grand Slam title, 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-1 at the U.S. Open.

2002 - The Rajdhani Express train derailed in Bihar state and fell into a river, killing at least 118 people. An Indian railway official said that it was an act of sabotage.
2003 - Larry Hovis dies (b. 1936). American actor.
2003 - Edward Teller dies (b. 1908). Hungarian-born physicist who is well -known as The father of the H-bomb
2004 - 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.
National Day in Bulgaria (1944)
Republic Day in North Korea (1948)
Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)