On This Day

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Historical Events on July 9


1776  Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)

Engrossed copy of the United States
Declaration of Independence

1795  James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt

1815  1st natural gas well in US is discovered

1842  Notary Stamp Law passes

1846  The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress

1860  Temperature hits 115°F in Fort Scott and 112°F in Topeka, Kansas

1862  General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky

1863  John Hunt Morgan's cavalry aid into Indiana [->JUL 13]

1863  Union troops enter Port Hudson

1864  Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, confederate forces led by Lieutenant General Jubal Early


1867  An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish missionary and explorer)

Physician and Explorer
David Livingstone

1868  1st African American cabinet member in South Carolina, Francis L Cardozo as Secretary of State

1868  Tennessee and South Carolina are 1st to ratify the 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights

1869  Corncob pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented

1878  An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Missouri

1893  Daniel Hale Williams III repairs the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish, without penicillin or blood transfusion

Heart surgeon
Daniel Williams

1910  Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude

1916  1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany


1918  101 killed and 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tennessee

1918  US Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal (not to be confused with other countries' decorations of the same name)

1926  Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander in China

Chinese Military and Political Leader
Chiang Kai-shek

1934 

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS
Heinrich Himmler

1944  In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan falls

1951  US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

33rd US President
Harry Truman

1953  1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)

1955  E. Frederic Morrow is the first African American executive on US White House staff

1955  Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops the billboards chart, one of the best-selling singles ever

Father of Rock 'n' Roll
Bill Haley

1956  Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand

Radio and TV Personality
Dick Clark

1957  Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced

1968  15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Mississippi (state 24-hour record)

1970  In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn

1971  Henry Kissinger visits the People's Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China

US Secretary of State and Political Scientist
Henry Kissinger

1972  1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)

Musician and Beatle
Paul McCartney

1978  "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 performances

1978  American Nazi Party holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago

1978  Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington, D.C. for ERA

1981  Jacksons begin a 36-city tour

1982  Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London

1986  Attorney General's Commission on pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes

1987  1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime

1987  Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence

1999  Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran

2014  Typhoon Rammasun begins and kills 151 people

2017  CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Telsa's first mass market electric car - the Model 3

Entrepreneur
Elon Musk

2018  US President Donald Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality
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[b]2018  Bright pink is the world's oldest biological colour according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1bn-year-old marine shale rock from Taoudeni basin, Mauritania

2018  4 more boys are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there with 8 others and their coach for 17 days by monsoon flooding (4 boys and their coach remain)

2018  US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year

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