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What happened in history on this day: June 9?
On June 9 in ...
- 1784 - John Carroll is appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions.
- 1790 - First book copyrighted under the constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book.
- 1862 - Battle of Port Republic, last of five battles in CSA General Thomas Jackson's Valley camp.
- 1863 - Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
- 1869 - Charles Elmer Hires sells his first root beer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
- 1883 - First commercial electric railway line begins operation in the USA (Chicago El).
- 1934 - The Walt Disney Silly Symphony film The Wise Little Hen is released to theaters in the USA. Donald Duck makes his film debut, with a voice supplied by Clarence Nash.
- 1943 - US Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax.
- 1946 - Nineteen guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque, Iowa, USA).
- 1953 - Tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, destroying Assumption College, killing 100.
- 1954 - Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency".
- 1959 - First ballistic missile submarine launched (George Washington, in Groton, Connecticut, USA).
- 1969 - Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice.
- 1970 - Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice.
- 1972 - 14 inches of rain in six hours bursts Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 200.
- 1975 - Fire in prison hospital kills ten prisoners and one guard (Sanford, Florida).
- 1978 - Intel introduces the 4.77MHz 8086 microprocessor. It uses 16-bit registers, a 16-bit data bus, and 29,000 transistors, using 3-micron technology. Price is US$360. It can access 1 MB of memory. Speed is 0.33 MIPS.
- 1980 - In the California - Mexico border region, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1984 - NASA launches Intelsat V, it fails.
- 1985 - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon.
- 1986 - The Rogers Commission report on space shuttle Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol.
- 1988 - US Attorney General Edwin Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to the United Kingdom.
- 1989 - Rare tornado in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA kills one.
- 2005 - At Logan Airport, almost 400 people narrowly avoid death when two jet airliners nearly collide on the runway.
Births on June 9
- 1892 - Birth of Cole Porter in Peru, Indiana, USA; songwriter-composer ("Anything Goes", "Kiss Me Kate", "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "Let's Do It").
- 1900 - Birth of Fred Waring in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, USA; choirmaster/bandleader (The Pennsylvanians), inventor (Waring blender).
- 1908 - Birth of Robert Cummings in Joplin, Missouri, USA; actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder, Twelve Angry Men (1954, Emmy award), The Bob Cummings Show, My Hero, My Living Doll).
- 1915 - Birth of Lester William Polsfuss AKA Les Paul in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; guitarist ("Mockin' Bird Hill", "How High the Moon", "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"). guitar designer (marketed by the Gibson company), built the first eight-track tape recorder, invented "sound-on-sound" recording or overdubbing.
- 1916 - Birth of Robert Strange McNamara in San Francisco, California, USA; US Secretary of Defense (1961-68), head of World Bank.
- 1926 - Birth of Mona Freeman in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress).
- 1930 - Birth of Marvin Kalb in New York City, New York, USA; educator/newscaster (CBS, NBC).
- 1933 - Birth of Dick Orkin in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA; actor/producer (Tim Conway Show, Chickenman, Tooth Fairy).
- 1934 - Birth of Jackie Wilson in Detroit, Michigan, USA; soul singer ("Night" (1960), "Lonely Teardrops"), inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987).
- 1934 - Birth of Joe Santos in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus).
- 1938 - Birth of Charles Wuorinen in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Pulitzer 1980).
- 1944 - Birth of Brigid Bazlen in Wisconsin, USA; actress (Pam - Too Young to go Steady).
- 1948 - Birth of Nathaniel Rosen in Altadena, California, USA; cellist (Tchaikovsky Gold 1978).
- 1958 - Birth of Donald Michael in Santini, Massachusetts, USA; murderer (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1963 - Birth of Johnny Depp in Queensboro, Kentucky, USA; actor (21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Caribbean).
- 1969 - Birth of Mitch McLee [Douglas Lee Mitchell] in Miles, Michigan, USA; drummer (Southgang).
Deaths on June 9
- 1981 - Death of Allen Ludden at age 63 of stomach cancer; game show host (Password TV show, GE College Bowl radio show).
- 1989 - Death of George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1903).
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