On this day in History - Sep. 09

• 0009 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
• 0214 - Aurelian was born (d. 0275). Roman Emperor.
• 0384 - Flavius Honorius was born (d. 0423). Emperor East Roman Republic (395-423).
• c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise dies. Irish bishop.
• 0701 - Pope Sergius I dies.
• 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Notable naval batttle of the Viking Age.
• 1000 - Olaf I of Norway dies.
• 1087 - King William I of England dies.
• 1261 - D. Diniz (O Lavrador) was born. King of Portugal and poet.
• 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.
• 1398 - King James I of Cyprus dies (b. 1334).
• 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros was born (d. 1464). English politician.
• 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 (fell from a horse) (b. 1433). Duke of Brittany.
• 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
• 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".
• 1596 - Anna Jagiellon dies (b. 1523). Polish Queen.
• 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari dies (b. 1570). Japanese warlord.
• 1629 - Cornelis Tromp was born (d. 1691). Dutch admiral.
• 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve dies (b. 1612). French army officer and founder of Montreal.
• 1680 - Henry Marten dies (b. 1602). English regicide.
• 1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was born (d. 1780).
• 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson was born (d. 1780). American colonial governor of Massachusetts.
• 1721 - Fredrik Henrik af Chapman was born (d. 1808). Swedish naval architect and vice admiral.
• 1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero was born (d. 1787). Mexican writer.
• 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). German historian.
• 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.
• 1777 - James Carr was born (d. 1818). U.S. Congressman.
• 1778 - Giambattista Piranesi dies. Italian architect.
• 1791 - Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named for President George Washington.
• 1792 - Morte do bispo português Dom Bernardo Pinto Ribeiro Seixas. 1.º Bispo de Bragança e Miranda.
• 1801 - Alexander I of Russia confirmed the privileges of Baltic provinces.
• 1806 - William Paterson dies (b. 1745). Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey.
• 1815 - John Singleton Copley dies (b. 1738). American painter.
• 1828 - Leo Tolstoy was born (d. 1910). Russian novelist ("War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”).
• 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse was born (d. 1903). English novelist.
• 1834 - James Weddell dies (b. 1787). English navigator and explorer.
• 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
• 1841 - A. P. de Candolle dies (b. 1778). Swiss botanist.
• 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.
• 1853 - Fred Spofforth was born (d. 1926). Australian cricketer.
• 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.
• 1877 - Frank Chance was born (d. 1924). American baseball player.
• 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey was born (d. 1914). American poet.
• 1878 - Sergio Osmeña was born. President of Philipines (1944-1946).
• 1882 - Clem McCarthy was born (d. 1962). American sportscaster.
• 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.
• 1890 - Harland Sanders was born (d. 1980). American fast-food entrepreneur.
• 1891 - Jules Grévy dies (b. 1813). President of France.
• 1892 - Edward Barnard discovers Amaltea, the moon of Júpiter.
• 1892 - Tsuru Aoki was born (d. 1961). Japanese-born American actress.
• 1894 - Arthur Freed was born (d. 1973). American songwriter and film producer.
• 1894 - Bert Oldfield was born (d. 1976). Australian cricketer.
• 1898 - Frankie Frisch was born (d. 1973). American baseball player.
• 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé dies (b. 1842). French poet.
• 1899 - Billy Rose was born (d. 1966). American composer.
  
• 1899 - Bruno E. Jacob was born (d. 1979). American founder of the National Forensics League.
• 1899 - Neil Hamilton was born (d. 1984). American actor.
• 1899 - Waite Hoyt was born (d. 1984). American baseball player.
  
• 1900 - James Hilton was born (d. 1954). English 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 (b. 1864). French painter.
• 1902 - Roberto Noble was born. Argentinian founder of the newspaper Clarín.
• 1903 - Phyllis Whitney was born. American writer.
• 1904 - Feroze Khan was born (d. 2005). Pakistani field hockey player.
• 1905 - Hussain Sha was born. Indian Saint, Philosopher, Pithapuram.
• 1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce dies (b. 1840). English bishop.
• 1908 - Cesare Pavese was born (d. 1950). Italian poet and novelist.
• 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 (b. 1848). American railroad entrepreneur.
• 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female American Doctor.
  
• 1911 - John Gorton was born (d. 2002). Nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1911 - Paul Goodman was born (d. 1972). American poet and writer.
• 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 (b. 1850). American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer.
• 1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus was born (d. 1942). German actor.
• 1918 - Jimmy Snyder was born (d. 1996). American bookmaker and sports commentator.
• 1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was born. 9th President of the Italian Republic.
  
• 1919 – Gottfried Dienst was born (d. 1998). Swiss football referee.
• 1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder was born (d. 1996). American bookmaker and sports commentator.
• 1919 - Roberto Hernández Rodríguez was born. Mexican educator.
• 1920 - Aldo Parisot was born. American cellist and teacher.
• 1920 - Carlos Niemeyer was born. Brazilian film director.
• 1920 – Feng Kang was born (d. 1993). Chinese mathematician.
  
• 1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III was born (d. 1970). American philanthropist.
• 1922 - Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 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.
• 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt was born. German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1922 - Hoyt Curtin was born (d. 2000). American songwriter.
• 1922 – Manolis Glezos was born. Greek politician and writer
• 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founded the Republican People's Party (CHP).
• 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was born. American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1923 - Hermes da Fonseca dies (b. 1855). President of Brasil (1910-1914).
• 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• 1924 - Jane Greer was born (d. 2001). American actress.
• 1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen was born (d. 2003). Belgian cyclist.
  
• 1924 - Russell M. Nelson was born. LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer.
• 1925 - Cliff Robertson was born. American actor.
• 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
• 1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi was born. Prominent Egypt Muslim cleric.
• 1927 - Elvin Jones was born (d. 2004). American jazz drummer.
• 1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was born (d. 1975). American musician.
• 1929 - Claude Nougaro was born (d. 2004). French singer.
• 1930 - Frank Lucas was born. American drug lord.
• 1930 - José Águas was born. Portuguese football player bi-champion of European Cup of Champions for Benfica / Nascia José Águas. Futebolista português que representou o Benfica fazendo parte da equipa que se sagrou Campeã Europeia de clubes, por duas vezes.
• 1932 - Sylvia Miles was born. American actress.
• 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.
• 1935 - Gopal Baratham was born. Singaporean author.
• 1937 - Mikhail N Tai was born in Latvia. World chess champion, 1960-61.
• 1939 - Bruce Gray was born. Puerto Rican actor.
• 1939 - Carlos Ortiz was born. Puerto Rican boxer.
• 1939 - Ron McDole was born. American football player.
• 1940 - 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5).
• 1941 - Dennis Ritchie was born. American computer scientist.
• 1941 - Otis Redding was born (d. 1967). American singer and songwriter (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay).
• 1941 - Peter Bonetti was born. British footballer.
• 1941 - Hans Spemann dies (b. 1869). German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
• 1942 – Danny Kalb was born. American musician, (Blues Project).
• 1942 - Inez Foxx was born. American R&B singer.
• 1942 - Raul Durão was born (d. 2007). Portuguese TV presenter and journalist.
• 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
• 1943 - Art LaFleur was born. American actor.
• 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.
• 1944 - World War II: Bulgaria is liberated by Russia from Nazi control (National Day).
• 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrendered to China.
• 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp was born. American R&B singer.
• 1946 - Billy Preston was born. American musician.
• 1946 - Bruce Palmer was born (d. 2004). Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield).
• 1946 - Doug Ingle was born. American musician (Iron Butterfly).
• 1946 – Hayato Tani was born. Japanese actor.
• 1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found" - a moth lodged in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard.
• 1947 - David Rosenboom was born. American composer.
• 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
• 1948 – Pamela Des Barres was born. American groupie and author.
• 1949 – Daniel Pipes was born. American writer and political commentator.
• 1949 - Garry Maddox was born. American baseball player.
• 1949 - Joe Theismann was born. American football player and commentator.
• 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was born. Indonesian politician.
• 1951 - Alexander Downer was born. Australian politician.
• 1951 – Robert Desiderio was born. American actor.
• 1951 - Tom Wopat was born. American actor and singer.
• 1952 - Angela Cartwright was born. American actress.
• 1952 - David A. Stewart was born. English musician (Eurythmics).
• 1952 – Manuel Göttsching was born. German musician (Ash Ra Tempel).
• 1954 - Marilyn Bell was for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions to become the first person to swim across Lake Ontario.
• 1954 - Jeffrey Combs was born. American actor.
• 1955 - John Kricfalusi was born. Canadian animator.
• 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 (6-3, 6-4).
• 1956 -76th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3).
• 1956 - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms (PAIGC: Partido Africano para Independencia da Guiné e Cabo Verde).
• 1957 – Gabriele Tredozi was born. Italian engineer.
• 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born. French pianist.
• 1959 - Eric Serra was born. French composer.
• 1960 - Bob Stoops was born. American football coach.
• 1960 - Hugh Grant was born. English actor (4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Month).
• 1960 - Mario Batali was born. American chef and restaurateur.
• 1960 - Jussi Björling dies (b. 1911). Swedish tenor.
• 1961 - Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962.
• 1961 - Marco Simmons was born. DJ & Musician.
• 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).
• 1963 - Roberto Donadoni was born. Italian football player and manager.
• 1965 - François 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.
• 1965 - Hurricane 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.
• 1965 – Constance Marie was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Dan Majerle was born. American basketball player.
• 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
• 1966 – Adam Sandler was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1966 - Georg Hackl was born. German luger.
• 1967 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968.
• 1967 - Uganda declares independence from Great Britain.
• 1967 - Akshay Kumar was born. Indian actor.
• 1967 - Anna Malle was born (d. 2006). American porn star.
• 1967 - B. J. Armstrong was born. American basketball player.
• 1967 - Chris Caffery was born. American guitarist and singer.
• 1968 - Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win U.S. Tennis Open.
• 1968 - Clive Mendonca was born. English footballer.
• 1968 - Francois Botha was born. South African boxer.
• 1968 - Jon Drummond was born. American former sprinter.
• 1968 - Julia Sawalha was born. English actress.
• 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.
• 1969 - Constance Marie was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Rachel Hunter was born. New Zealand model and actress.
• 1969 - Willy Mairesse dies (b. 1928). Belgian racing driver.
• 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
• 1970 - Macy Gray was born. American singer.
• 1970 - Natalia Streignard was born. Venezuelan actress.
• 1971 - The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
• 1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album.
• 1971 - Henry Thomas was born. American actor and musician.
• 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.
• 1972 – Félix Rodríguez was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1972 – Goran Višnjić was born. Croatian actor.
• 1972 - James Farmer was born. American educator and artist.
• 1972 - Mike Hampton was born. American baseball player.
• 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky was born. British newsreader.
• 1973 - 93rd U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2)
• 1973 - Mark Parry was born. Welsh guitarist (The Manvils).
• 1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1974 - 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (3-6, 6-3, 7-5)
• 1974 - Ana Carolina was born. Brazilian musician, composer and singer.
• 1974 - Marcos Curiel was born. American guitarist of rock band (P.O.D.), songwriter, and producer.
• 1974 - Mathias Färm was born. Swedish guitarist (Millencolin).
• 1974 - Shane Crawford was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1974 - Vikram Batra was born. Officer of the Indian Army.
• 1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum.
• 1975 - Michael Bublé was born. Canadian singer and actor.
• 1976 - Aki Riihilahti was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1976 - Chace Ambrose was born. American actor and writer.
• 1976 - Emma de Caunes was born. French film actress.
• 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg was born. Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar).
• 1976 - Juan A. Baptista was born. Venezuelan actor.
• 1976 - Lúcia Moniz was born. Portuguese singer and actress.
• 1976 - Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-Tung dies (b. 1893). Chinese Communist leader.
• 1977 - Chae Jung-an was born. South Korean actress and singer.
• 1977 - Kyle Snyder was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Marcia Martins was born. Portuguese teacher of English and Camané4ever (blog) webmaster.
• 1977 - Maria Rita was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1977 - Soulja Slim was born (d. 2003). American rapper.
• 1978 - 92nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (7-5 and 6-4).
• 1978 - Kurt Ainsworth was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Mariano Puerta was born. Argentine tennis player.
• 1978 - Shane Battier was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid dies (b. 1892). Scottish poet.
• 1978 - Jack Warner dies (b. 1892). Canadian-born 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).
• 1979 - Nikki DeLoach was born. American actress and singer.
• 1979 – Wayne Carlisle was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1980 - Michelle Williams was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Todd Coffey was born. American baseball player.
• 1980 - John Howard Griffin dies (b. 1920). American writer.
• 1981 - Julie Gonzalo was born. Argentinian actress.
• 1981 - Jacques Lacan dies (b. 1901). French psicanalist.
• 1982 - Ai Otsuka was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.
• 1982 – Graham Onions was born. English Cricketer.
• 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.
• 1983 - Cleveland Taylor was born. International footballer.
• 1983 - Edwin Jackson was born. German baseball player.
• 1983 – Kim Jung-hwa was born. South Korean actress and model.
• 1983 – Kristine Hermosa was born. Filipina actress.
• 1983 - Kyle Davies was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Sam Hollenbach was born. National Football League quarterback.
• 1984 - 104th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (6-3, 6-4, 6-1).
• 1984 – Brad Guzan was born. American footballer
• 1984 - Farrah Gray was born. American author
• 1984 - James Hildreth was born. English cricketer.
• 1985 – Dani Pedrosa was born. Spanish motorcycle racer.
• 1985 - J.R. Smith was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - Luka Modrić was born. Croatian footballer.
• 1985 - Paul Flory dies (b. 1910). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1986 – Chamu Chibhabha was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.
• 1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute was born. Cameroonian basketball player.
• 1986 - Michael Bowden was born. American baseball player.
• 1987 - Alexandre Song was born. Cameroonian footballer.
• 1987 - Joshua Herdman was born. English actor.
• 1987 - Tathagat Avatar Tulsi was born. Child Prodigy in Physics.
• 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 - 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
• 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 - Melody Klaver was born. Dutch actress.
• 1990 – Alexander Men dies (b. 1930). Russian priest.
• 1990 - Doc Cramer dies (b. 1905). American baseball player.
• 1990 – Samuel Doe dies (b. 1951). Liberian politician.
• 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 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
• 1993 - Helen O'Connell dies. American singer.
• 1994 - Sachin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against Australia in Sri Lanka.
• 1994 - Patrick O'Neal dies (b. 1927). American actor.
• 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 - Marina Nuñez del Prado dies (b. 17 Out 1910). Bolivian sculptor.
• 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.
• 1996 - Bill Monroe dies (b. 1911). American bluegrass singer and composer.
• 1997 - Burgess Meredith dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1997 - Richie Ashburn dies (b. 1927). American baseball player.
• 1998 - Bill Cratty dies (b. 1951). American modern dancer and choreographer.
• 1999 - Sonic Adventure is released in America on the Sega Dreamcast.
• 1999 - Final Fantasy VIII is released in the United States.
• 1999 – Chan Parker dies (b. 1925). American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods.
• 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter dies (b. 1946). American baseball player.
• 1999 - Ruth Roman dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón was born. Granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain.
• 2000 - Julian Critchley dies (b. 1930). British politician.
• 2001 - 01:46:40 UTC - the Unix billennium.
• 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud (b. 1953), leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
• 2001 – Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
• 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 - Edward Teller dies (b. 1908). Hungarian-born physicist who is well -known as The father of the H-bomb.
• 2003 - Larry Hovis dies (b. 1936). American actor.
• 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.
• 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball dies (b. 1930). American businessman.
• 2005 - John Wayne Glover dies (b. 1932). English serial killer.
• 2005 - Tarzan Taborda dies (b. 1935). Portuguese luta livre.
• 2006 - Coronel Ubiratan is assassinated (b. 1943). Brazilian policeman.
• 2006 - Gérard Brach dies (b. 1927). French screenwriter.
• 2006 - Matt Gadsby dies (b. 1979). English footballer.
• 2006 - Richard Burmer dies (b. 1955). American composer, sound designer and electronic musician.
• 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr. dies (b. 1930). American publishing executive.
• 2007 - Roger Federer wins for the fourth time US Open in tennis
• 2007 - Hughie Thomasson dies (b. 1952). American musician.
• 2008 - Warith Deen Muhammad dies (b. 1933). American religious leader.
  
• National Day in Bulgaria (1944).
• Republic Day in North Korea (1948).
• Independence Day in Tajikistan (from URSS, 1991).
• Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku). On this day, people drank sake with chrysanthemum petals, called kiku-zake, on a hill. They went to the mountains and picked chestnuts, cooked them with rice, and ate the kuri-gohan.
• North Korea - Republic Day (1948).
• California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
• Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise.
• Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
• Macedonian Independence day. (From Yugoslavia)
• Sega Dreamcast (Ten year anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast in North America which was released 9/9/99).