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Events on the 9th of September in history

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09 Sep 0009 Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
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09 Sep 0337 Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
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09 Sep 0533 A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
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09 Sep 0701 St. Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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09 Sep 1000 Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
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09 Sep 1087 William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, (reigned until 1100).
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09 Sep 1141 Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara-Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
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09 Sep 1379 Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
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09 Sep 1488 Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
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09 Sep 1493 Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
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09 Sep 1513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
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09 Sep 1513 James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
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09 Sep 1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
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09 Sep 1556 Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria Emperor
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09 Sep 1561 Sermon of Poissy
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09 Sep 1561 The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
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09 Sep 1567 Lomaraal van Egmond and Philip van Hoorne captured
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09 Sep 1675 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
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09 Sep 1683 Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald
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09 Sep 1739 Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
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09 Sep 1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
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09 Sep 1753 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
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09 Sep 1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies, " "US"
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09 Sep 1776 The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
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09 Sep 1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
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09 Sep 1801 Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
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09 Sep 1817 Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
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09 Sep 1830 Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, New Jersey
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09 Sep 1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
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09 Sep 1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
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09 Sep 1850 California becomes 31st state
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09 Sep 1850 Territories of New Mexico and Utah created
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09 Sep 1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
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09 Sep 1850 The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
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09 Sep 1855 Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
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09 Sep 1861 Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
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09 Sep 1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
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09 Sep 1863 Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
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09 Sep 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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09 Sep 1867 Luxembourg gains independence
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09 Sep 1880 President Hayes visits San Francisco
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09 Sep 1881 Egyptian military coup under Colonel Arab "El Wahid"
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09 Sep 1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
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09 Sep 1892 E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
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09 Sep 1895 American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
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09 Sep 1898 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
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09 Sep 1899 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
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09 Sep 1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
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09 Sep 1904 Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2, " Yankee name not official till 1913
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09 Sep 1904 Mounted police 1st used in New York City
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09 Sep 1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia
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09 Sep 1908 Russia takes part of Poland
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09 Sep 1909 Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
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09 Sep 1911 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
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09 Sep 1912 J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph / 172 km/h)
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09 Sep 1913 Association for Study of Negro Life and History organizes in Chicago
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09 Sep 1914 Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
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09 Sep 1914 Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
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09 Sep 1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
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09 Sep 1918 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
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09 Sep 1922 Turkish troops conquer Smyrna / murder Greek citizens
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09 Sep 1922 William T Cosgrave replaces Irish Premier Collins
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09 Sep 1922 The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
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09 Sep 1923 Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
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09 Sep 1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
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09 Sep 1924 Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
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09 Sep 1926 National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
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09 Sep 1926 Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
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09 Sep 1926 In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
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09 Sep 1927 Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
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09 Sep 1932 Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning
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09 Sep 1932 Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended
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09 Sep 1932 Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
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09 Sep 1932 Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
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09 Sep 1933 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61)
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09 Sep 1934 Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
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09 Sep 1936 Yankees sweep Indians, New York clinches pennant on earliest date in history
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09 Sep 1936 The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
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09 Sep 1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw
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09 Sep 1939 World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
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09 Sep 1939 Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
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09 Sep 1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England
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09 Sep 1940 60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
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09 Sep 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
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09 Sep 1940 Treznea massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians kill 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts to ethnic cleansing.
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09 Sep 1942 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WWII)
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09 Sep 1942 Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia
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09 Sep 1942 Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
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09 Sep 1942 World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
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09 Sep 1943 Italy surrenders to Allies
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09 Sep 1943 Lieutenant General Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech / Prestwick
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09 Sep 1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
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09 Sep 1943 US, British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
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09 Sep 1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
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09 Sep 1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
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09 Sep 1944 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
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09 Sep 1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
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09 Sep 1944 US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
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09 Sep 1944 Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
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09 Sep 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.
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09 Sep 1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
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09 Sep 1945 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
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09 Sep 1945 Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final HR
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09 Sep 1945 Philadelphia Athletics Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0
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09 Sep 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
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09 Sep 1947 First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
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09 Sep 1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 performances
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09 Sep 1948 Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney no-hits New York Giants, 2-0
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09 Sep 1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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09 Sep 1950 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
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09 Sep 1950 Massive arrests of communists in France
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09 Sep 1951 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
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09 Sep 1951 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
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09 Sep 1953 KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1953 WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1954 Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
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09 Sep 1955 Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
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09 Sep 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
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09 Sep 1956 70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64)
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09 Sep 1956 76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63)
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09 Sep 1956 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms
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09 Sep 1956 Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan)
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09 Sep 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
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09 Sep 1957 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
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09 Sep 1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
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09 Sep 1958 Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game
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09 Sep 1958 Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
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09 Sep 1960 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
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09 Sep 1961 Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
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09 Sep 1962 76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64)
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09 Sep 1962 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
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09 Sep 1962 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
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09 Sep 1962 WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1963 Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
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09 Sep 1963 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
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09 Sep 1964 German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
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09 Sep 1965 Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
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09 Sep 1965 Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs. Cubs (1-0)
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09 Sep 1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
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09 Sep 1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
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09 Sep 1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
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09 Sep 1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition
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09 Sep 1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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09 Sep 1967 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
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09 Sep 1967 Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
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09 Sep 1967 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
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09 Sep 1968 1st US Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)
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09 Sep 1968 Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win US Tennis Open
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09 Sep 1968 Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Green Bay (42-7)
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09 Sep 1968 WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1968 WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1969 Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82
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09 Sep 1969 Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83
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09 Sep 1969 WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Sep 1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
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09 Sep 1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
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09 Sep 1970 Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
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09 Sep 1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
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09 Sep 1971 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison
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09 Sep 1971 John Lennon andYoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
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09 Sep 1971 John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
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09 Sep 1971 NHL great Gordie Howe retires
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09 Sep 1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
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09 Sep 1972 86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75)
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09 Sep 1972 Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
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09 Sep 1972 In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
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09 Sep 1973 93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62)
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09 Sep 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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09 Sep 1974 88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75)
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09 Sep 1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum
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09 Sep 1975 Viking 2 Mars probe launch
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09 Sep 1977 1st TRS-80 computer sold
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09 Sep 1977 Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Allan Trammell debut together and will play together for 19 years
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09 Sep 1978 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
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09 Sep 1978 92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64)
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09 Sep 1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs. Toronto)
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09 Sep 1978 Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
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09 Sep 1978 Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
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09 Sep 1979 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon
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09 Sep 1979 93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63)
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09 Sep 1979 99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63)
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09 Sep 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
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09 Sep 1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
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09 Sep 1981 Vernon E Jordan resigns as President of National Urban League
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09 Sep 1982 "Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin NYC for 69 performances
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09 Sep 1982 Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank in preparation for STS-5
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09 Sep 1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
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09 Sep 1983 Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
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09 Sep 1983 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
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09 Sep 1984 104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61)
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09 Sep 1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
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09 Sep 1984 California Angel Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game
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09 Sep 1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
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09 Sep 1985 Race riot in Birmingham England
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09 Sep 1986 New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
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09 Sep 1987 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline, " to cheating on his wife
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09 Sep 1987 Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
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09 Sep 1987 Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
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09 Sep 1987 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
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09 Sep 1988 Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games
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09 Sep 1988 Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu
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09 Sep 1989 103rd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61)
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09 Sep 1990 110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62)
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09 Sep 1990 Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
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09 Sep 1990 Oakland beats New York 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
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09 Sep 1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship
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09 Sep 1990 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
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09 Sep 1991 Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington
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09 Sep 1991 Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
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09 Sep 1991 Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
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09 Sep 1992 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
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09 Sep 1992 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman
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09 Sep 1992 Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits
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09 Sep 1993 Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times
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09 Sep 1993 PLO recognizes state of Israel
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09 Sep 1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns
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09 Sep 1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
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09 Sep 1994 Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit
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09 Sep 1994 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
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09 Sep 1995 "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
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09 Sep 1995 109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63)
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09 Sep 1995 Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
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09 Sep 1995 Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
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09 Sep 1995 Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
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09 Sep 1997 Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
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09 Sep 1999 Sega releases the first 128-bit video game console, the Dreamcast.
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09 Sep 2001 Ahmad 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.
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09 Sep 2001 Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
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09 Sep 2001 The Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.
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09 Sep 2009 The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
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09 Sep 2012 The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.
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09 Sep 2012 A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
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