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What happened in history on this day: September 9?
On September 9 in ...
- 1776 - Continental Congress renames "United Colonies" as "United States".
- 1830 - Charles Durant, first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
- 1841 - Great Lakes steamer Erie sinks off Silver Creek, New York, kills 300.
- 1850 - California becomes 31st US state.
- 1850 - Territories of New Mexico and Utah are created.
- 1862 - CSA General Robert Lee splits his army and sends General Thomas Jackson to capture Harper's Ferry.
- 1908 - Orville Wright makes first one-hour airplane flight, in Fort Myer, Virginia.
- 1913 - Association for Study of Negro Life and History organizes in Chicago.
- 1926 - National Broadcasting Company created by the Radio Corporation of America.
- 1942 - First bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily, Oregon.
- 1943 - Allied forces launch Operation Avalanche, with amphibious landings of 55,000 troops at Salerno, Italy. US 6th Corps under Ernest Dawley lands on the right, 25 miles south of Salerno. British 10th Corps under Sir Richard McCreery lands on the left, just south of Salerno.
- 1957 - Nashville, Tennessee's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School is dynamited.
- 1967 - First successful test flight of a Saturn V booster rocket.
- 1969 - Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82.
- 1971 - 1,000 convicts seize Attica, New York prison.
- 1975 - Viking 2 is launched toward orbit around Mars.
- 1977 - First TRS-80 Model I computer sold.
- 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan issues Executive Order 12532, effective October 11, establishing trade and other sanctions agsinst South Africa, including an import ban on Kruggerand gold coins. The order also directs Treasury Department to conduct feasibility study on issuing gold bullion coins, and seek legislative authority to proceed.
- 1986 - At the Palladium in Manhattan, New York, Compaq Computer introduces the Compaq Deskpro 386, the first 80386-based personal computer offered by a major computer manufacturer. The Model 40 features a 16 MHz Intel 80386 and 40 MB hard drive, for US$6449. The Model 130 has a 130 MB hard drive, for US$8799.
- 1986 - New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet United Nations employee) of spying.
- 1995 - Sony Electronics introduces the 32-bit CD-ROM game system, PlayStation, in North America. Price is US$299.
- 1998 - Kenneth Starr submits his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House of Representatives, outlining a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds.
- 1999 - Sega releases the Dreamcast video game system in the USA. Price is US$199. In the first 24 hours, Sega sells US$97 million worth of hardware and software, setting an entertainment industry record for highest-grossing day.
- 2007 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega finishes 15 years in Miami, Florida Prison for drug trafficking.
- 2010 - In San Bruno, California, a gas pipeline explosion destroys 38 homes, kills at least four people, and leaves a large crater in the ground.
Births on September 9
- 1868 - Birth of Mary Austin in Illinois, USA; feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain).
- 1875 - Birth of Charles Keck in New York City, New York, USA; American sculptor (Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Duke, Booker T. Washington, Liberty Monument, Boy with Fish, Pandora's Box, statue of Mohammed), coin designer (US 1915 Panama-Pacific gold dollar, 1927 Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1936 Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar).
- 1898 - Birth of Frank (Fordham Flash) Frisch in New York City, New York, USA; baseball player (National League Most Valuable Player 1931).
- 1899 - Birth of Neil Hamilton in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Commissioner Gordon - Batman).
- 1907 - Birth of Pinky Tomlin in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA; singer/actor (Tip - Waterfront).
- 1919 - Birth of Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos AKA Jimmy Snyder AKA Jimmy the Greek in Steubenville, Ohio, USA; gambler/sportscaster.
- 1920 - Birth of Wally Boag in Portland, Oregon, USA; performer at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue about 40,000 times from 1955 to 1982, actor in The Absent-Minded Professor, The Love Bug, voice of Jose parrot in Enchanted Tiki Room, named a Disney Legend in 1995.
- 1924 - Birth of Jane Greer in Washington DC, USA; actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown).
- 1925 - Birth of Cliff Robertson in La Jolla, California, USA; actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T.
- 1941 - Birth of Otis Redding in Georgia, USA; rocker ("Sitting on the Dock of the Bay").
- 1950 - Birth of Tom Wopat in Lodi, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Luke Duke - The Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1951 - Birth of Robert Desiderio in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Detective Kennedy - Heart of the City).
- 1969 - Birth of Scott DeFreitas in Newton, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Andy Dixon - As the World Turns).
- 1980 - Birth of Michelle Williams; American actress (Dawson's Creek, Brokeback Mountain).
Deaths on September 9
- 1985 - Death of Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910).
- 1996 - Death of Bill Monroe, American "father of bluegrass" music (born 1911).
- 1997 - Death of Baseball Hall of Famer Richie 'Whitey' Ashburn of a heart attack in New York.
- 2003 - Death of Hungarian-American physicist Edward Teller in Stanford, California, USA, "father of the hydrogen bomb", proposed the Strategic Defence Initiative.
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