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July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 175 days remaining.
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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 )
Holidays and observances July 8 - July 10 - June 9 - August 9 -- listing of all days
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July 9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1557 words)
July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. July 8 - July 10 - June 9 - August 9 -- listing of all days This page was last modified 22:20, 13 September 2006.
July 9th in Baseball History | BaseballLibrary.com (3300 words)
The uniform Lou Gehrig wore when he made his famous "luckiest man on earth" speech on July 4, 1939 is sold for $451,541 at auction. Ila Borders becomes the first female pitcher in history to start a minor league baseball game, as she hurls the first five innings, surrendering five hits and three runs, while registering two walks and two strikeouts, for the Duluth–Superior Dukes in their 8–3 loss to the Sioux Falls Canaries in the Northern League. Both teams score 3 in the 9th inning, but Minnie Minoso's running catch with the bases loaded chokes off the NL's last-half rally.
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