Major Events
- 1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age. He leaps to his death overboard.
- 1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)
- 1817 Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
- 1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
- 1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
- 2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
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Sep 9 in Film & TV
- 1951 1st broadcast of soap opera "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
- 1956 Elvis Presley appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the 1st time
Sep 9 in Sport
- 1972 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with US leading 50-49 the final 3 seconds is replayed 3 times until the Soviets finally win
Did You Know?
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling
Aurelian
William Bligh
Leo Tolstoy
Colonel Sanders
Cliff Robertson
Frank Lucas
Hugh Grant
Adam Sandler
Michael Bublé
Michelle Williams
Otis Redding
Dave Stewart
Fred Spofforth
Frank Chance
Frankie Frisch
Luka Modrić
Fun Fact About September 9
Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army
Famous Weddings
- 1770 Founding Father of America Robert R. Livingston (23) weds John Steven's daughter Mary Stevens
- 1951 American conductor Leonard Bernstein (33) weds Costa Rican actress Felicia Montealegre (29), at Temple Mishkan Tefila in Roxbury, Massachusetts, until her death in 1978
- 1995 American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41) at the Church of the Covenant, Boston
More September 9 Weddings
William the Conqueror
James IV
Mao Zedong
Burgess Meredith
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Edward Teller
