Today In History. What Happened This Day In History A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history. Today in History September 9 337 : Constantines three sons, already Caesars, each take the title of Augustus. Constantine II and Constans share the west while Constantius II takes control of the east. 1087 : William the Conquerer, Duke of Normandy and King of England, dies in Rouen while conducting a war which began when the French king made fun of him for being fat. 1513 : King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by English at Flodden. 1585 : Pope Sixtus V deprives Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown. 1776 : The term United States is adopted by the Continental Congress to be used instead of the United Colonies. 1786 : George Washington calls for the abolition of slavery. 1791 : French Royalists take control of Arles and barricade themselves inside the town. 1834 : Parliament passes the Municipal Corporations Act, reforming city and town governments in England. 1850 : California, in the midst of a gold rush, enters the Union as the 31st state. 1863 : The Union Army of the Cumberland passes through Chattanooga as they chase after the retreating Confederates. The Union troops will soon be repulsed at the Battle of Chickamauga. 1886 : The Berne International Copyright Convention takes place. 1911 : An airmail route opens between London and Windsor. 1915 : A German zeppelin bombs London for the first time, causing little damage. 1926 : The Radio Corporation of America creates the National Broadcasting Co. 1942 : A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, makes its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. 1943 : Allied troops land at Salerno, Italy and encounter strong resistance from German troops. 1948 : Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. 1956 : Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; cameras focus on his upper torso and legs to avoid showing his pelvis gyrations, which many Americans—including Ed Sullivan—thought unfit for a family show. 1965 : US Department of Housing and Urban Development established. 1965 : Hurricane Betsy, the first hurricane to exceed $1 billion in damages (unadjusted), makes its second landfall, near New Orleans. 1969 : Canadas Official Languages Act takes effect, making French equal to English as a language within the nations government. 1970 : U.S. Marines launch Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day search for North Vietnamese troops near DaNang. 1971 : Attica Prison Riot; the 4-day riot leaves 39 dead. 1976 : Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung dies in Beijing at age 82. 1990 : Sri Lankan Army massacres 184 civilians of the Tamil minority in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka. 1991 : Tajikstan declares independence from USSR. 1993 : The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. 2001 : Two al Qaeda assassins kill Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. 2001 : A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. Born on September 9 1585 : Duc Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, French cardinal and statesman who helped build France into a world power under the leadership of King Louis XIII. 1828 : Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina). 1887 : Alfred M. Landon, Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. 1890 : Colonel Harland Sanders, originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food restaurants. 1900 : James Hilton, British novelist who authored Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips and created the imaginary world of Shangri-La. 1905 : Joseph E. Levine, film producer, founder of Embassy Pictures Corporation, an independent studio and distributor of films such as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Graduate, A Bridge Too Far, and The Lion in Winter. 1908 : Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese commander and pilot who led the second wave of the air attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941; posthumously promoted to admiral in 1945. 1922 : Bernard Bailyn, historian, author; received Pulitzer Prize for History (1968, 1987), and National Humanities Medal (2010). 1922 : Hoyt Curtin, composer and music producer; primary musical director for Hanna-Barbera animation studio (The Flintstones, Top Cat, The Smurfs).
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