SomeFacts | July 9

On this day - July 9

118 — Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's ...

381 — The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in ...

491 — Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, ...

551 — A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating ...

660 — Korean forces under general Kim Yu-sin of Silla defeat the army ...

869 — The 8.4–9.0 Mw Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around ...

969 — The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in ...

1357 — Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of ...

1386 — The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing ...

1401 — Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad.

1540 — King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth ...

1572 — Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs, in the ...

1609 — Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of ...

1701 — A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller ...

1745 — French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture ...

1755 — The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller ...

1762 — Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the ...

1763 — The Mozart family grand tour of Europe begins, lifting the ...

1776 — George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be ...

1789 — In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as ...

1790 — The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic ...

1793 — The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation ...

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

1807 — The second Treaty of Tilsit is signed between France and ...

1810 — Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First ...

1811 — Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now ...

1815 — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime ...

1816 — Argentina declares independence from Spain.

1821 — Four hundred and seventy prominent Cypriots including ...

1850 — Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.

1850 — U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and ...

1863 — American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends in a Union ...

1868 — The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...

1875 — The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which ...

1877 — The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.

1893 — Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the ...

1896 — William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech ...

1900 — The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the ...

1900 — The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.

1918 — In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with ...

1922 — Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 ...

1926 — Chiang Kai-shek accepts the post of commander-in-chief of the ...

1932 — The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal ...

1937 — The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed ...

1943 — World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to ...

1944 — World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of ...

1944 — World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the ...

1955 — The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the ...

1956 — The 7.7 Mw Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group ...

1958 — A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide ...

1961 — Greece becomes the first member state to join the European ...

1962 — Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear explosion at ...

1977 — The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event ...

1979 — A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi ...

1982 — Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all ...

1986 — The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform ...

1993 — The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the ...

1995 — The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air ...

1997 — An explosion aboard a Brazilian airline TAM Fokker 100 ...

1999 — Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and ...

2002 — The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ...

2004 — The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence is released by the ...

2006 — Italy win their fourth World Cup title, defeating France 5–3 ...

2006 — One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines ...

2011 — A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for ...

2011 — South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.

2025 — Earth completes its shortest recorded day due to a slight ...