About September 9
September 9, 2024 is the 253rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 142 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 9
- 1379 –Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1513 –James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1855 –Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1923 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 1926 –The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1943 –World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944 –World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1947 –First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948 –Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 –Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- 1965 –The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1971 –The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1993 –The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 2001 –Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- 2004 –2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2009 –At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
- 2010 –A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1000 ft high.
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