September 9: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. In 1379, the Treaty of Neuberg was concluded, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg brothers, Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
2. 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
3. In 1753, the first steam engine arrives in the colonies, New Jersey, from England.
4. In 1850, California is admitted into the Union as the thirty-first state.
5. In 1904, mounted police are first used in NYC.
6. In 1942, the first bombing of the continental United States by an enemy aircraft takes place in Mount Emily, Oregon during World War II.
7. 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.
8. In 1956, Elvis Presley appears on national television on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time.
9. In 1957, President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction.
10. In 1968, Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win the US Tennis Open.
11. 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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