September 9: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?
(Page last edited 10/12/2017)
- In 1379, the Treaty of Neuberg was concluded, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg brothers, Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- In 1753, the first steam engine arrives in the colonies, New Jersey, from England.
- In 1850, California is admitted into the Union as the thirty-first state.
- In 1904, mounted police are first used in NYC.
- In 1942, the first bombing of the continental United States by an enemy aircraft takes place in Mount Emily, Oregon during World War II.
- In 1945, the first "bug" in a computer program is discovered by Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and naval officer. The moth she found was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log.
- In 1956, Elvis Presley appears on national television on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time.
- In 1957, President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction.
- In 1968, Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win the US Tennis Open.
- Famous Birthdays: Leo Tolstoy (Russia, novelist - War & Peace, Anna Karenina), Nino Bibbia (bobsled -Olympic-gold-1948) , [Chaim] Topol (actor - Fiddler on the Roof) , Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, ( colonel/cosmonaut -Soyuz TM-12), Ai Otsuka ( Japanese singer and songwriter)
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