1357 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, personally laid the first foundation stone for the Charles Bridge in Prague on July 9, 1357 at 5:31 am. The bridge still exists and the exact time of laying the first foundation stone is known because the palindromic number 1-3-5-7-9-7-5-3-1 (year, day, month, time) was carved into the Old Town bridge tower. The notoriously superstitious king was into astrology and numerology, and chose this date as the best time for starting the bridge construction.
1735 At the age of 26, English writer Samuel Johnson married a 46-year-old widow, Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter. They tied the knot at St Werburgh Church, Derby on July 9, 1735. The couple were devoted to each other even though according to some of Johnson's contemporaries, Tetty was a drowsy, fat drunkard, who was renowned for her girlish levity and disgusting affection. She died in 1752.
1755 The Battle of the Monongahela took place on July 9, 1755 at Braddock's Field in Braddock, Pennsylvania during which General Edward Braddock died with many of his men in a failed attack against the French. Despite suffering from a severe case of dysentery, George Washington rallied the survivors and formed a rear guard, which allowed the remnants of the force to disengage and retreat. He survived despite having two horses shot from under him and four bullets ripping through his coat.
1776 On July 9, 1776, George Washington was in New York preparing for the Battle of Long Island, when he received his copy of the Declaration of Independence with a note from John Hancock telling Washington to share the news with the troops. After Washington read the Declaration the citizens who had heard the declaration raced down Broadway toward a large statue of George III, toppled it, decapitated it, and then melted it to make bullets.
1790 On July 9, 1790, the US Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles (16 km) on each side, totaling 100 square miles (259 km2). Half of the district was in Maryland and the other half was in Virginia, and the two states ceded this land to the US government. The new capital city was named in honor of the US's first president: Washington, D.C.
1797 Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician Edmund Burke died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, on July 9, 1797 and was buried there alongside his son and brother. His wife survived him by nearly fifteen years. Burke's basic political credo – that liberty is only possible within the strict framework of law and order – ensured that since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.
1810 The Kingdom of Holland was formed in June 1806. Napoléon's brother Louis Bonaparte was installed as a puppet king. Four years later, Napoleon annexed the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire on July 9, 1810. The Netherlands remained part of the French Empire until the autumn of 1813, when Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Leipzig and the Netherlands became independent again.
1811 On July 9, 1811 British explorer David Thompson posted a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state), claiming the area for Great Britain. The notice was written in both English and French, and it stated that the land belonged to Great Britain "by right of discovery." Thompson also left a British flag with the Wallula Indians, who controlled the area.
1816 In 1810, the Argentine population rose against Spanish rule. That May, the Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires. On July 9, 1816 a congress of deputies meeting at San Miguel de Tucumán declared the country's independence and elected Don Martin Pueyrredon supreme dictator.
1819 Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, was born on July 9, 1819. Howe was working in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, cotton machinery factory when he dreamed up the idea of a machine that could sew. The idea fascinated him, and he spent all his spare time during the next five years developing a practical sewing machine. Eventually, Howe left his job to work on his invention. Howe eventually completed his first successful sewing machine in 1845.
1846 San Francisco was founded in 1776 by the Spanish conquerors. It was called "Yerba Buena" which is Spanish for "Good Herb", because mint grew there in abundance. The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush. On July 9, 1846, an American naval captain occupied the Spanish settlement of Yerba Buena. Half a year later, Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1860 On returning home from the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale threw herself into a campaign to improve British army health and living conditions. By 1859, Florence had £45,000 at her disposal from the Nightingale Fund to set up the Nightingale Training School (now called the Nightingale School of Nursing) at St Thomas' Hospital. Nightingale Training School for Nurses opened on July 9, 1860. with Mrs. Wardroper as its head. Florence paid very close attention to every detail.
1877 The inaugural Wimbledon Tennis Championship was held to raise money for repairs to The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis club's pony-drawn lawn roller. The competition started on July 9, 1877 and was solely as an amateur competition. Men's singles was the only event that took place with 22 men competing for a 12-guinea prize, plus a silver challenge cup valued at 25 guineas. Entrants had to pay a guinea (£1.05) each. The first Wimbledon Championship made a profit of £10.
1877 The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
In the first month of the Bell Telephone Company's existence, only six telephones were sold.
1887 Napkins were introduced in ancient times for wiping clean greasy and dirty hands after using them to eat, as well as the mopping the forehead and face. The use of paper napkins is documented in ancient China in the 2nd century BC but they were generally made of cloth until the late 19th century. The transition from cloth to paper napkins began on July 9, 1887, when the English company John Dickinson Stationary used paper napkins at a company party.
1932 King Camp Gillette established the Gillette Safety Razor Company in the early 19th century. Production began in 1903, when Gillette sold a total of 51 razors and 168 blades. The second year, he sold 90,884 razors and 123,648 blades, thanks in part to Gillette's low prices, automated manufacturing techniques and good advertising. Gillette was president of the company until 1931 and was a director until his death in Los Angeles, died on July 9, 1932.
1941 Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was born July 9, 1941. He was the first athlete to be disqualified at the Olympics for drug use after he drank two beers before his shooting event at the 1968 Summer Olympics to calm his nerves. His disqualification followed the introduction of anti-doping regulations by the International Olympic Committee the previous year.
1943 Clifford Whittingham Beers suffered severe episodes of depression in his twenties and was maltreated and abused during his confinement at various private and state mental institutions. As a result of indignities and violence Beers experienced, he determined to reform the mental health system. His autobiographic book, The Mind That Found Itself, created a sensation, calling for a true therapeutic approach to mental illness instead of just custodial care. He died on July 9, 1943.
1947 Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson was born July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California. Simpson originally attained stardom as a football running back at the collegiate and professional levels. After retiring from football, he began new careers in acting and football broadcasting. He was put on trial in 1994 for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. He was acquitted of the charges after a widely disputed verdict.
1956 Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California. His father was an itinerant cook and his mother, a hospital worker of Portuguese ancestry. After dropping out of college, Hanks moved from California to Ohio to join the Great Lakes Theater Festival. While there, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Hanks got his first big break starring in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies.
1958 The largest wave ever recorded by humans was a megatsunami that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958. The wave was caused by a massive landslide that displaced an estimated 40 million cubic yards (30.6 million cubic meters) of rock and debris into the bay. The landslide triggered a tsunami that reached a height of 1,720 feet (524 meters) at its peak.
 |
| Chalres Bridge by By Sergey Ashmarin |
1735 At the age of 26, English writer Samuel Johnson married a 46-year-old widow, Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter. They tied the knot at St Werburgh Church, Derby on July 9, 1735. The couple were devoted to each other even though according to some of Johnson's contemporaries, Tetty was a drowsy, fat drunkard, who was renowned for her girlish levity and disgusting affection. She died in 1752.
1755 The Battle of the Monongahela took place on July 9, 1755 at Braddock's Field in Braddock, Pennsylvania during which General Edward Braddock died with many of his men in a failed attack against the French. Despite suffering from a severe case of dysentery, George Washington rallied the survivors and formed a rear guard, which allowed the remnants of the force to disengage and retreat. He survived despite having two horses shot from under him and four bullets ripping through his coat.
 |
| Washington on horseback during the Battle of Monongahela |
1776 On July 9, 1776, George Washington was in New York preparing for the Battle of Long Island, when he received his copy of the Declaration of Independence with a note from John Hancock telling Washington to share the news with the troops. After Washington read the Declaration the citizens who had heard the declaration raced down Broadway toward a large statue of George III, toppled it, decapitated it, and then melted it to make bullets.
1790 On July 9, 1790, the US Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles (16 km) on each side, totaling 100 square miles (259 km2). Half of the district was in Maryland and the other half was in Virginia, and the two states ceded this land to the US government. The new capital city was named in honor of the US's first president: Washington, D.C.
1797 Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician Edmund Burke died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, on July 9, 1797 and was buried there alongside his son and brother. His wife survived him by nearly fifteen years. Burke's basic political credo – that liberty is only possible within the strict framework of law and order – ensured that since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.
1810 The Kingdom of Holland was formed in June 1806. Napoléon's brother Louis Bonaparte was installed as a puppet king. Four years later, Napoleon annexed the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire on July 9, 1810. The Netherlands remained part of the French Empire until the autumn of 1813, when Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Leipzig and the Netherlands became independent again.
1811 On July 9, 1811 British explorer David Thompson posted a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state), claiming the area for Great Britain. The notice was written in both English and French, and it stated that the land belonged to Great Britain "by right of discovery." Thompson also left a British flag with the Wallula Indians, who controlled the area.
1816 In 1810, the Argentine population rose against Spanish rule. That May, the Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires. On July 9, 1816 a congress of deputies meeting at San Miguel de Tucumán declared the country's independence and elected Don Martin Pueyrredon supreme dictator.
 |
| Site of the Congress of Tucumán. |
1819 Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, was born on July 9, 1819. Howe was working in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, cotton machinery factory when he dreamed up the idea of a machine that could sew. The idea fascinated him, and he spent all his spare time during the next five years developing a practical sewing machine. Eventually, Howe left his job to work on his invention. Howe eventually completed his first successful sewing machine in 1845.
1846 San Francisco was founded in 1776 by the Spanish conquerors. It was called "Yerba Buena" which is Spanish for "Good Herb", because mint grew there in abundance. The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush. On July 9, 1846, an American naval captain occupied the Spanish settlement of Yerba Buena. Half a year later, Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
 |
| View of San Francisco 1846–47 |
1860 On returning home from the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale threw herself into a campaign to improve British army health and living conditions. By 1859, Florence had £45,000 at her disposal from the Nightingale Fund to set up the Nightingale Training School (now called the Nightingale School of Nursing) at St Thomas' Hospital. Nightingale Training School for Nurses opened on July 9, 1860. with Mrs. Wardroper as its head. Florence paid very close attention to every detail.
1877 The inaugural Wimbledon Tennis Championship was held to raise money for repairs to The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis club's pony-drawn lawn roller. The competition started on July 9, 1877 and was solely as an amateur competition. Men's singles was the only event that took place with 22 men competing for a 12-guinea prize, plus a silver challenge cup valued at 25 guineas. Entrants had to pay a guinea (£1.05) each. The first Wimbledon Championship made a profit of £10.
1877 The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
In the first month of the Bell Telephone Company's existence, only six telephones were sold.
1887 Napkins were introduced in ancient times for wiping clean greasy and dirty hands after using them to eat, as well as the mopping the forehead and face. The use of paper napkins is documented in ancient China in the 2nd century BC but they were generally made of cloth until the late 19th century. The transition from cloth to paper napkins began on July 9, 1887, when the English company John Dickinson Stationary used paper napkins at a company party.
 |
| Paper napkins |
1894 Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie married actress Mary Ansell on July 9, 1894. The wedding was a small ceremony in his parents' home, in the Scottish tradition. The relationship was reportedly unconsummated, and the couple had no children. Beginning in mid 1908, Ansell had an affair with Gilbert Cannan who was employed as a secretary by Barrie. They divorced in October 1909 after Barrie discovered his wife's affair with Canaan.
1941 Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was born July 9, 1941. He was the first athlete to be disqualified at the Olympics for drug use after he drank two beers before his shooting event at the 1968 Summer Olympics to calm his nerves. His disqualification followed the introduction of anti-doping regulations by the International Olympic Committee the previous year.
 |
| Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall |
1943 Clifford Whittingham Beers suffered severe episodes of depression in his twenties and was maltreated and abused during his confinement at various private and state mental institutions. As a result of indignities and violence Beers experienced, he determined to reform the mental health system. His autobiographic book, The Mind That Found Itself, created a sensation, calling for a true therapeutic approach to mental illness instead of just custodial care. He died on July 9, 1943.
1947 Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson was born July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California. Simpson originally attained stardom as a football running back at the collegiate and professional levels. After retiring from football, he began new careers in acting and football broadcasting. He was put on trial in 1994 for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. He was acquitted of the charges after a widely disputed verdict.
1956 Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956 in Concord, California. His father was an itinerant cook and his mother, a hospital worker of Portuguese ancestry. After dropping out of college, Hanks moved from California to Ohio to join the Great Lakes Theater Festival. While there, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Hanks got his first big break starring in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies.
1958 The largest wave ever recorded by humans was a megatsunami that occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958. The wave was caused by a massive landslide that displaced an estimated 40 million cubic yards (30.6 million cubic meters) of rock and debris into the bay. The landslide triggered a tsunami that reached a height of 1,720 feet (524 meters) at its peak.
1962 The American pop-art pioneer Andy Warhol's 'Campbell's Soup Cans' exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles on July 9, 1962. The main exhibit consisted of 32 paintings of cans of every variety of Campbell's Soup. The red and white label on a Campbell's Soup can comes from the colors of the Cornell University football team.
1981 Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong on July 9, 1981 which featured the debut of Mario, one of the most famous characters in video game history. Japanese video game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto believed "donkey" meant "stupid" in English, and assumed the name Donkey Kong would convey the sense "stupid ape" to an American audience. When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, he was laughed at, but the name stuck.
2009 A second Sudanese civil war broke out between the country's Muslim north and Christian south in 1983. The situation worsened when in 1991 Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide.
It is estimated that possibly two million people, mainly Christian southerners, died over the 22 year duration of the Second Sudanese Civil War. International pressure produced a ceasefire in 2005, and then a process towards a referendum that lead to independence for South Sudan on July 9, 2011.
2022 An economic crisis in Sri Lanka caused widespread suffering. The Sri Lankans protested for months, demanding that the government resign. The protests finally boiled over on July 9, 2022 when a large crowd stormed the President's House. They forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to agree to resign.
Comments
Post a Comment