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September 9
1543 - Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling Castle, nine months after she was born.
1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from the United Colonies to the United States of America.
1850 - California became the 31st state.
1893 - President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first presidential child to be born in the White House.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1942 - During World War II, a Japanese plane launched from a submarine off the Oregon coast dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt at igniting a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the U.S. mainland by a foreign power.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1971 - Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 - Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
2001 - Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 - The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
2009 - Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina) shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on health care.
2010 - A natural gas pipeline explosion killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, California.
2010 - Iran said it would free Sarah Shourd, one of three American hikers held for more than 13 months on spying accusations, as an act of clemency to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced in August 2011 to eight years in prison, but were released the following month.)
2013 - Four days of vehicular gridlock began near the George Washington Bridge when two of three approach lanes from Fort Lee, New Jersey, were blocked off; the traffic jam was later blamed on loyalists to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the refusal of Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich to endorse Christie for re-election. (Two political insiders were convicted for their roles in the closure; a unanimous Supreme Court later threw out the convictions. Christie denied any prior knowledge of the lane closures, but the episode helped derail his 2016 presidential bid.)
2014 - Apple unveiled its long-anticipated smartwatch as well as the next generation of its popular iPhone.
2015 - Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history, serving as sovereign for 23,226 days (about 63 years and 7 months), according to Buckingham Palace, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great grandmother.
2015 - New York City became the first U.S. city to require salt warnings on chain-restaurant menus.
2016 - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City, described half of Republican Donald Trump's supporters as "a basket of deplorables," a characterization for which she would end up expressing regret.
2019 - Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped South Korean crew members alive from a cargo ship, more than a day after the ship overturned as it left a port in Brunswick, Georgia.
2019 - The acting chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the agency had likely violated its scientific integrity rules by publicly chastising a weather office that had contradicted Trump concerning a hurricane threat to Alabama.
Birthdays
21 - Ronni Hawk (actress)
21 - Inka Williams (model)
23 - Katerina Rozmajzl (model)
29 - Hunter Hayes (country singer)
29 - Kelsey Chow (actress)
29 - Lauren Daigle (singer)
30 - Haley Reinhart (singer)
33 - Natalia Guerrero (actress)
35 - JR Smith (basketball player)
37 - Zoe Kazan (actress)
39 - Julie Gonzalo (actress)
40 - Michelle Williams (actress)
43 - Maria Rita (singer)
45 - Michael Buble (singer)
48 - Goran Visnjic (actor)
49 - Henry Thomas (actor)
49 - Eric Stonestreet (actor)
50 - Gizelle Bryant (reality star)
51 - Rachel Hunter (model)
52 - Julia Sawalha (actress)
54 - Adam Sandler (actor/comedian)
54 - David Bennett (actor)
55 - Constance Marie (actress)
55 - Charles Esten (actor/comedian)
60 - Hugh Grant (actor)
68 - Angela Cartwright (actress)
69 - Tom Wopat (actor)
71 - Joe Theismann (football player)
75 - Dee Dee Sharp (singer)
78 - Inez Foxx (singer)
85 - Topol (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 9
1904 - The Boston Herald again refers to the American League New York baseball team as "Yankees." (The New York Highlanders would not become the "Yankees" until 1913.)
1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.
1958 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates ties a major league record with three triples in one game.
1960 - The Denver Broncos defeat the Boston Patriots 13-10 in the AFL's first regular season game.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs, the eighth perfect game in major league history; the game was also Koufax's fourth career no-hitter.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings announced his retirement from hockey.
1972 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, the Soviet Union defeats the United States 51-50 in a controversial men's basketball game; with the U.S. leading 50-49, the final three seconds were replayed three times until the Soviets finally win.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined career yardage record with 15,517 yards.
1987 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros recorded his 4,500th career strikeout.
1991 - Boxer Mike Tyson was indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant. (Tyson was convicted and ended up serving three years of a six-year prison sentence.)
1992 - Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers became the 17th player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1998 - The New York Yankees clinched the American League East Division title earlier than anyone in league history. (The Yankees would end the regular season 20 1/2 games ahead of the second-place Boston Red Sox.)
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit three home runs in a game, giving him 63 for the season.
2002 - Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record.
2006 - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova wins her first U.S. Open title.
2018 - The Green Bay Packers start their 100th season with a 24-23 comeback win over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; it was the first time in franchise history the team had come back from a 17+ point deficit (20-3) after three quarters.
1543 - Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots at Stirling Castle, nine months after she was born.
1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from the United Colonies to the United States of America.
1850 - California became the 31st state.
1893 - President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first presidential child to be born in the White House.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1942 - During World War II, a Japanese plane launched from a submarine off the Oregon coast dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt at igniting a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the U.S. mainland by a foreign power.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1971 - Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 - Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
2001 - Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 - The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
2009 - Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina) shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on health care.
2010 - A natural gas pipeline explosion killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, California.
2010 - Iran said it would free Sarah Shourd, one of three American hikers held for more than 13 months on spying accusations, as an act of clemency to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced in August 2011 to eight years in prison, but were released the following month.)
2013 - Four days of vehicular gridlock began near the George Washington Bridge when two of three approach lanes from Fort Lee, New Jersey, were blocked off; the traffic jam was later blamed on loyalists to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the refusal of Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich to endorse Christie for re-election. (Two political insiders were convicted for their roles in the closure; a unanimous Supreme Court later threw out the convictions. Christie denied any prior knowledge of the lane closures, but the episode helped derail his 2016 presidential bid.)
2014 - Apple unveiled its long-anticipated smartwatch as well as the next generation of its popular iPhone.
2015 - Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history, serving as sovereign for 23,226 days (about 63 years and 7 months), according to Buckingham Palace, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great grandmother.
2015 - New York City became the first U.S. city to require salt warnings on chain-restaurant menus.
2016 - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City, described half of Republican Donald Trump's supporters as "a basket of deplorables," a characterization for which she would end up expressing regret.
2019 - Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped South Korean crew members alive from a cargo ship, more than a day after the ship overturned as it left a port in Brunswick, Georgia.
2019 - The acting chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the agency had likely violated its scientific integrity rules by publicly chastising a weather office that had contradicted Trump concerning a hurricane threat to Alabama.
Birthdays
21 - Ronni Hawk (actress)
21 - Inka Williams (model)
23 - Katerina Rozmajzl (model)
29 - Hunter Hayes (country singer)
29 - Kelsey Chow (actress)
29 - Lauren Daigle (singer)
30 - Haley Reinhart (singer)
33 - Natalia Guerrero (actress)
35 - JR Smith (basketball player)
37 - Zoe Kazan (actress)
39 - Julie Gonzalo (actress)
40 - Michelle Williams (actress)
43 - Maria Rita (singer)
45 - Michael Buble (singer)
48 - Goran Visnjic (actor)
49 - Henry Thomas (actor)
49 - Eric Stonestreet (actor)
50 - Gizelle Bryant (reality star)
51 - Rachel Hunter (model)
52 - Julia Sawalha (actress)
54 - Adam Sandler (actor/comedian)
54 - David Bennett (actor)
55 - Constance Marie (actress)
55 - Charles Esten (actor/comedian)
60 - Hugh Grant (actor)
68 - Angela Cartwright (actress)
69 - Tom Wopat (actor)
71 - Joe Theismann (football player)
75 - Dee Dee Sharp (singer)
78 - Inez Foxx (singer)
85 - Topol (actor)
============================================
Today in Sports History - September 9
1904 - The Boston Herald again refers to the American League New York baseball team as "Yankees." (The New York Highlanders would not become the "Yankees" until 1913.)
1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.
1958 - Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates ties a major league record with three triples in one game.
1960 - The Denver Broncos defeat the Boston Patriots 13-10 in the AFL's first regular season game.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs, the eighth perfect game in major league history; the game was also Koufax's fourth career no-hitter.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings announced his retirement from hockey.
1972 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, the Soviet Union defeats the United States 51-50 in a controversial men's basketball game; with the U.S. leading 50-49, the final three seconds were replayed three times until the Soviets finally win.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined career yardage record with 15,517 yards.
1987 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros recorded his 4,500th career strikeout.
1991 - Boxer Mike Tyson was indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant. (Tyson was convicted and ended up serving three years of a six-year prison sentence.)
1992 - Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers became the 17th player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1998 - The New York Yankees clinched the American League East Division title earlier than anyone in league history. (The Yankees would end the regular season 20 1/2 games ahead of the second-place Boston Red Sox.)
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit three home runs in a game, giving him 63 for the season.
2002 - Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record.
2006 - Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova wins her first U.S. Open title.
2018 - The Green Bay Packers start their 100th season with a 24-23 comeback win over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; it was the first time in franchise history the team had come back from a 17+ point deficit (20-3) after three quarters.
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