On This Day:
Friday September 9, 2011
This is the 252nd day of the year, with 113 days
remaining in 2011.
Fact of the Day: Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional while
playing for Baltimore in the International League, a
minor-league team sold later that season to the Boston Red
Sox. He also pitched a one-hit shutout that day (September
5, 1914). In 1918, however, because of his powerful hitting,
he began to play the outfield in order to bat in every game.
Holidays
Italy:
Salerno Day (Allied landing).
Japan:
Chrysanthemum Day.
Tajikistan:
Independence Day (from USSR 1991).
California:
Admission Day.
France:
Pffiferdaj (Day of the Flutes).
North
Korea: National holiday in Democratic People's
Republic of (North).
Belize:
National Day, St George's Caye Day.
Events
337 -
Constantine's
three sons, already Caesars, added the title of Augustus. Constantine
II and Constans
share the west while Constantius
II takes control of the east.
1543
- Mary Stuart became the infant Queen of Scotland.
1776
- Second
Continental Congress made the term "United
States" official, replacing "United
Colonies."
1834
- Parliament
passed the Municipal
Corporations Act in England.
1839
- John
Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.
1850
- California
became the 31st state of the Union.
1893
- Frances
Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover
Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White
House.
1908
- Orville
Wright made the first one-hour airplane flight at Fort
Myer, Virginia.
1926
- National
Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)
was formed by the Radio
Corporation of America.
1942
- Rare attack on U.S. mainland by Japanese occurred; they
dropped incendiaries on Oregon
in hopes of starting forest fires.
1956
- Elvis
Presley's first American appearance, on "The
Ed Sullivan Show."
1957
- President Dwight
D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights
bill to pass Congress
since Reconstruction.
1965
- France
left NATO
in protest of the U.S.'s domination of the organization.
1971
- Attica
Correctional Facility prisoners rioted and seized
control of the maximum-security prison (near Buffalo,
New
York). The siege ended up claiming 43 lives.
1993
- The Palestine
Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel
as a legitimate state.
2003
- The Boston
Roman
Catholic Archdiocese
agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy
sex
abuse cases.
2004
- A car
bomb explodes outside the Australian
embassy
in South
Jakarta, killing 10 people and wounding more than 150
others.
Births
1585
- Cardinal Duc
Armand Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, Louis
XIII's chief minister.
1754
- William
Bligh, captain of HMS
Bounty.
1828
- Leo
Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist who wrote "War
and Peace" and "Anna
Karenina" and social reformer.
1887
- Alfred
Landon (R-Kansas),
presidential candidate.
1890
- Colonel Harland
Sanders, American businessman, creator of Kentucky
Fried Chicken.
1900
- James
Hilton, British novelist who wrote "Lost
Horizon" and "Goodbye
Mr. Chips."
1919
- Jimmy
"The Greek" Snyder, American sportscaster.
1925
- Cliff
Robertson, American actor.
1941
- Otis
Redding, American singer/songwriter.
1946
- Billy
Preston, American pianist/singer.
1960
- Hugh
Grant, British actor.
1966
- Adam
Sandler, American comedian and actor.
Deaths
1087
- William
I (William The Conqueror), king of England
and duke of Normandy.
1513
- James
IV king of Scotland.
1976
- Communist
Chinese leader (Chairman) Mao
Tse-tung, revolutionary who took China
in 1949 and started the Cultural
Revolution in 1965.
1978
- Jack
Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder.
1997
- Burgess
Meredith, American stage, television, and film actor
and director.
2003
- Edward
Teller (born Teller Ede), Hungarian-born
American theoretical
physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen
bomb."
2006
- William
B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing
executive.
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