Today in History
9 July
Johannes Kepler
Zachary Taylor
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| 1371 Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht | ||
| 1386 In the Swiss-Swabian wars, Leopold III and his 6,000-strong Austrian army were defeated by a force of only 1,600 Swiss pikemen at the battle of Sempach in a display of superior tactics. |
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| 1401 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad | ||
| 1441 Jan van Eyck, Flemish artist who was famous for his painting of the altarpiece in the cathedral in Ghent, died. | ||
| 1517 Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen | ||
| 1536 French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada | ||
| 1540 England's King Henry VIII 6-mo marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled | ||
| 1553 Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades | ||
| 1595 Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe | ||
| 1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion | Johannes Kepler |
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| 1672 Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand | ||
| 1686 The League of Augsburg was formed with the alliance of the Holy Roman Emperor, Spain, Sweden and Saxony against the French King Louis XIV. | ||
| 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion | ||
| 1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British | ||
| 1755 In the Seven Years War, a force of British and Virginians under Gen. Braddock were heavily defeated by a combined French and Indian attack at the Monogahela River near Fort Duquesne. Braddock himself died in the battle. | ||
| 1766 English premier Rockingham resigns | ||
| 1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY) | ||
| 1780 Denmark declares neutrality | ||
| 1810 Holland was annexed by Napoleon after Louis Napoleon, his brother, abdicated from the throne. | ||
| 1815 1st natural gas well in US is discovered | ||
| 1815 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France | ||
| 1816 Argentina's independence from Spain was declared at the Congress of Tucuman. | ||
| 1835 St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France | ||
| 1842 Notary Stamp Law passes | ||
| 1850 Zachary Taylor, U.S. president since 1848, died. |
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| 1852 Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die | ||
| 1863 Union troops enter Port Hudson | ||
| 1869 Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented | ||
| 1872 Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me | ||
| 1877 The first Wimbledon tennis championships were held. | ||
| 1879 Italian modernist composer Ottorino Respighi was born; he was best known for his songs and descriptive symphonic works "Pini di Roma" and "Fontane di Roma." | ||
| 1900 Australia accepts its constitution | ||
| 1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude | ||
| 1915 In World War I, South African forces under Louis Botha forced the surrender of German forces in South West Africa. | ||
| 1916 Edward Heath, British politician and statesman, was born; he was prime minister from 1970-74 and took Britain into the then-European Economic Community. | ||
| 1916 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany | ||
| 1917 British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804 | ||
| 1918 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn | ||
| 1918 Congress of the United States of America creates Distinguished Service Medal | ||
| 1922 Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and later film actor playing "Tarzan," became the first man to swim 100 meters in under a minute when he clocked 58.6 seconds on this day. | ||
| 1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander | ||
| 1932 King Camp Gillette, U.S. inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, died. | ||
| 1940 RAF bombs Germany |
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| 1942 Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family & 4 other Jews | ||
| 1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje | ||
| 1943 British air raid sinks U-435 | ||
| 1944 Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) | ||
| 1944 In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell | ||
| 1944 After fierce bombing raids and a month of fighting, the British and the Canadians finally captured most of the town of Caen in France. | ||
| 1947 Spain votes for Franco monarchy | ||
| 1951 Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany | ||
| 1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC) | Zachary Taylor |
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| 1960 In a speech, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warned the United States against intervention in Cuba and said Soviet forces would support the Cuban people. | ||
| 1963 Federation of Malaysia forms | ||
| 1971 Henry Kissinger visits China PR | ||
| 1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe | ||
| 1980 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil | ||
| 1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster | ||
| 1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153 | ||
| 1984 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm | ||
| 1985 South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong | ||
| 1987 Col Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence | ||
| 1990 Leaders of the world's seven largest industrial nations began an economic summit in Houston with a call by U.S. President George Bush to create "a new world of freedom." | ||
| 1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics | ||
| 1993 British scientists using DNA genetic fingerprinting tests, identified the bones of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and members of his family. | ||
| 1996 Thousands of flag-waving children gave Nelson Mandela a hero's welcome to Britain, cheering and chanting his name as the South African president's state visit was launched in a blaze of royal pomp and ceremony. | ||
| 1996 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his first visit to Washington to outline his views linking peace in the Middle East to Israel's security needs. | ||
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