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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.
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 mi² or about 100 km²) 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 - Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the 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 - Days of student protests begins after 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 & politician
- 1858 - 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, politician
- 1925 - Peter Ludwig, entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Susan Cabot, actress
- 1927 - 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, actor
- 1942 - Richard Roundtree, actor
- 1943 - John Casper, US astronaut
- 1945 - Dean R. Koontz, fiction author
- 1946 - Bon Scott, singer: AC/DC (d. 1980)
- 1947 - O. J. Simpson, football player, actor
- 1952 - John Tesh, composer
- 1955 - Jimmy Smits, actor
- 1980 - Leighton O'Connor, inventor author/poet
- 1956 - Tom Hanks, actor
- 1956 - Marc Almond, singer
- 1957 - Kelly McGillis, actress
- 1965 - Frank Bello, bassist in the Anthrax rock band
- 1965 - Courtney Love, musician
- 1971 - Marc Andreessen, software developer - co-author of Mosaic and cofounder of Netscape
- 1973 - Kelly Holcomb, American football quarterback
- 1975 - Jack White, musician with The White Stripes
- 1976 - Fred Savage, actor
- 1976 - Shelton Benjamin, professional wrestler
- 1978 - Linda Park, actress
Deaths
- 1386 - Duke Leopold III of Austria in the Battle of Sempach
- 1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman
- 1850 - 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, chemist
- 1856 - 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 jurist
- 1951 - 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, author
- 1985 - Jimmy Kinnon ('Jimmy K.'), founder of Narcotics Anonymous
- 1992 - Eric Sevareid, reporter
- 1996 - Melvin Belli, attorney
- 2002 - Laurence Janifer, science fiction writer
- 2002 - Rod Steiger, actor
- 2003 - Winston Graham, author
- 2004 - Paula Danziger, author
- 2004 - 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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