Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 9
This is a list of selected September 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Day of the Foundation of the Republic in North Korea (1948); | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991) | refimprove |
| National Grandparents Day (2012) in the United States | refimprove |
| AD 9 – Germanic Wars: An alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius engaged Roman forces led by Publius Quinctilius Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, defeating three of the legions within the next few days. | refimprove sections |
| 1488 – Anne became Duchess of Brittany, a central figure in the struggle for influence that led to the union of Brittany and France. | unreferenced/refimprove sections |
| 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: James IV of Scotland was killed at the Battle of Flodden in Northumberland while leading an invasion of England. | James: unreferenced section (Ancestry); Battle: refimprove section |
| 1839 – John Herschel took the first photograph on glass. | refimprove section |
| 1850 – As per the conditions of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted into the United States as a free state, despite the fact that Southern California was south of the parallel 36°30' north. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – With the help of the advancing forces of the Soviet Red Army, the Bulgarian government of Konstantin Muraviev was overthrown and replaced with a government of the Fatherland Front. | refimprove |
| 1965 – Hurricane Betsy made its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., leaving 76 dead and becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion (unadjusted) in damage. | outdated, refimprove section |
| 1968 – The remainder of the area donated to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris County, New Jersey, was dedicated and it became the United States' first refuge to receive wilderness designation. | refimprove |
| 1969 – The Official Languages Act of Canada came into force, giving both French and English equal status throughout the Canadian national government. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, US, taking 33 guards hostage, before police were able to retake the prison four days later. | irrelevant material |
| 1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan Army massacred at least 184 Tamil refugees in the Batticaloa District. | needs more footnotes |
| 2004 – A car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing at least nine people and injuring over 150 others. | globalize |
| 2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula and the world's longest fully automated metro network, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 PM. | outdated |
| Michelle Williams |b|1980 | TFA for 2020 |
Eligible
- 337 – After disposing of all relatives who possibly held a claim to the throne, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans became Roman co-emperors.
- 1493 – Ottoman wars in Europe: At the Battle of Krbava Field, a large Croatian army intercepted an Ottoman force returning to the Sanjak of Bosnia, but was defeated.
- 1739 – The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1791 – The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it in honor of the first president: Washington, D.C.
- 1892 – At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite discovered by visual observation.
- 1939 – World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army forces began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, destroying both aeroplanes and killing all 83 occupants of both aircraft.
- 1971 – John Lennon's solo album Imagine was released.
- 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
- Born/died this day: | Joseph Leidy |b|1823| Augustin Pyramus de Candolle |d|1841| Frank Chance |b|1877| Colonel Sanders |b|1890| Chaim Topol |b|1935| Neil Davis |d|1985| Edward Teller |d|2003
Notes
- Residence Act appears on July 16, so Washington DC should not appear in the same year
- Invasion of Poland appears on September 1, so Battle of Hel should not appear in the same year
- Los Angeles appears on September 4, so California should not appear in the same year
Explosion damage in San Bruno, California
- 1141 – Yelü Dashi, the Liao general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeated Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan near Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan.
- 1320 – Byzantine forces defeated Achaean troops at the Battle of Saint George, taking control of the Arcadia region of Greece.
- 1954 – An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw struck near Chlef, Algeria, leaving at least 1,243 people dead, and forcing the government to implement comprehensive reforms in building codes.
- 2010 – A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded (damage pictured) and "shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet (300 m) in the air", killing eight people.
- Thomas Hutchinson (b. 1711)
- Louise Lehzen (d. 1870)
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi (b. 1926)
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