WillDekkard
09-09-2010, 03:26 AM
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This Date in History - September 9th
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* 9 Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
* 1000 Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
* 1379 Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
* 1493 Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
* 1513 James 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.
* 1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
* 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 its new union of sovereign states the United States.
* 1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
* 1801 Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
* 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 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.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
* 1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
* 1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
* 1922 Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
* 1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
* 1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
* 1926 The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
* 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
* 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.
* 1948 Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
* 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
* 1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
* 1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($1012 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
* 1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
* 1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
* 1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
* 1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
* 1990 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 officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
* 2001 Ahmed 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.
* 2001 Pδrnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pδrnu County, Estonia.
* 2004 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
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This Date in History - September 9th
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* 9 Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
* 1000 Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
* 1379 Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
* 1493 Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
* 1513 James 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.
* 1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
* 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 its new union of sovereign states the United States.
* 1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
* 1801 Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
* 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 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.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
* 1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
* 1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
* 1922 Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
* 1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
* 1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
* 1926 The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
* 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
* 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.
* 1948 Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
* 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
* 1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
* 1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($1012 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
* 1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
* 1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
* 1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
* 1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
* 1990 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 officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
* 2001 Ahmed 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.
* 2001 Pδrnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pδrnu County, Estonia.
* 2004 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
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