About July 9
July 9, 2024 is the 191st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 175 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 204 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 9
- 1540 –King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
- 1789 –In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
- 1793 –The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
- 1807 –The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
- 1811 –Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
- 1821 –470 prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence
- 1850 –U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
- 1868 –The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
- 1900 –Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
- 1918 –Great train wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
- 1922 –Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
- 1932 –The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
- 1943 –World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
- 1961 –Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
- 1962 –Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
- 1986 –The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
- 1995 –The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
- 2006 –At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
- 2011 –South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
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