July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 175 days remaining.
Events
455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire .1357 5:31 AM - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague 1540 - Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves .1749 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg .1755 - French and Indian War : Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.1789 - In Versailles , the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution .1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea , the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.1793 - Act Against Slavery passes in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain 1846 - By an act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac (39 mi˛ or about 100 km˛) was returned to Virginia.1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States .1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech .1900 - Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government .1918 - Great train wreck of 1918 : In Nashville, Tennessee , an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101.1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.1942 - Holocaust: Anne Frank 's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.1943 - World War II : Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily .1944 - World War II: British and Canadian forces capture Caen .1945 - A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn , the third fire in that area since 1933 .1968 - Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London 's South Bank .1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground.1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca , killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.1991 - International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec .1991 - South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion. 1992 - Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.1997 - Mike Tyson 's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield 's ear in a televised match.1999 - Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran
Births 1578 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1764 - Ann Radcliffe , writer (d. 1823 )1775 - Matthew Lewis , novelist (d. 1818 )1819 - Elias Howe , inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1867 )1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman , British Prime Minister & politician1858 - Franz Boas , German cultural anthropologist (d. 1942 )1900 - Ida Ehre, actress (d. 1989 )1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland , romance novelist, step-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 2000 )1908 - Paul Brown 1911 - Mervyn Peake , British writer and illustrator (d. 1968 )1916 - Edward Heath , politician1925 - Peter Ludwig, entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1996 )1927 - Susan Cabot , actress1927 - Ed Ames , actor 1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco , (d. 1999 )1932 - Donald Rumsfeld , Secretary of Defense of the United States , (2001 - present)1936 - June Jordan , American writer and teacher (d. 2002 )1937 - David Hockney , artist (Pop art )1938 - Brian Dennehy , actor1942 - Richard Roundtree , actor1943 - John Casper , US astronaut 1945 - Dean R. Koontz , fiction author 1946 - Bon Scott , singer: AC/DC (d. 1980 )1947 - O. J. Simpson , football player, actor1952 - John Tesh , composer1955 - Jimmy Smits , actor1980 - Leighton O'Connor, inventor author/poet1956 - Tom Hanks , actor1956 - Marc Almond , singer 1957 - Kelly McGillis , actress1965 - Frank Bello , bassist in the Anthrax rock band 1965 - Courtney Love , musician 1971 - Marc Andreessen , software developer - co-author of Mosaic and cofounder of Netscape1973 - Kelly Holcomb , American football quarterback 1975 - Jack White , musician with The White Stripes 1976 - Fred Savage , actor1976 - Shelton Benjamin , professional wrestler 1978 - Linda Park , actress
Deaths 1386 - Duke Austria in the Battle of Sempach 1797 - Edmund Burke , British philosopher and statesman1850 - Siyyid Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad, also known as the Báb , founder of the Bábi Faith 1850 - Zachary Taylor , 12th US president (b. 1784 ) 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro , chemist1856 - James Strang , Mormon splinter group leader (assassinated) 1937 - Oliver Law , first African American commander of US troops, killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War 1938 - Benjamin Cardozo , US jurist1951 - Harry Heilmann , Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1894 )1974 - Earl Warren , former governor of California , former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress, author1985 - Jimmy Kinnon ('Jimmy K.'), founder of Narcotics Anonymous 1992 - Eric Sevareid , reporter1996 - Melvin Belli , attorney2002 - Laurence Janifer , science fiction writer2002 - Rod Steiger , actor 2003 - Winston Graham , author2004 - Paula Danziger , author2004 - Paul Klebnikov , journalist 2004 - Isabel Sanford , actress (b. 1917 )
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