SomeFacts | September 9

On this day - September 9

337 — Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their ...

1000 — Battle of Svolder during the Viking Age.

1141 — Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara ...

1320 — In the Battle of Saint George, the Byzantines under Andronikos ...

1488 — Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central ...

1493 — Christopher Columbus, with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on ...

1493 — Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in ...

1499 — The citizens of Lisbon celebrate the triumphal return of the ...

1513 — James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of ...

1543 — Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of ...

1561 — The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an ...

1588 — Thomas Cavendish in his ship Desire enters Plymouth and ...

1739 — Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's ...

1776 — The Continental Congress officially names its union of states ...

1791 — Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named ...

1796 — Grenelle camp affair, a failed uprising by supporters of ...

1801 — Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic ...

1839 — John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

1845 — Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.

1850 — California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.

1850 — The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's ...

1855 — Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when ...

1863 — American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, ...

1892 — Amalthea becomes the last moon to be discovered without the ...

1914 — World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine ...

1922 — The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory ...

1923 — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, ...

1924 — Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

1936 — The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque ...

1939 — Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger ...

1939 — World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended ...

1940 — Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.

1940 — George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a ...

1942 — World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on ...

1943 — World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1944 — World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria ...

1945 — Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally ...

1947 — First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a ...

1948 — Kim Il Sung is appointed as premier of the Democratic ...

1954 — The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a ...

1956 — Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first ...

1965 — Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, ...

1965 — The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

1966 — The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed ...

1969 — Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper ...

1969 — In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making ...

1970 — A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the ...

1971 — The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting ...

1972 — In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research ...

1976 — Two Aeroflot flights collide in mid-air over Anapa, Soviet ...

1988 — Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes in Khu Khot, Thailand, ...

1990 — Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the ...

1991 — Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.

1993 — Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation ...

1994 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on ...

2001 — Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is ...

2006 — Space Shuttle Program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on ...

2009 — The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian ...

2012 — A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 ...

2012 — The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign ...

2014 — The album Songs of Innocence by U2 is digitally released at no ...

2015 — Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of the ...

2016 — The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and ...

2025 — Several Russian drones incur on Polish airspace and are ...

2025 — Six people are killed when Israel carries out an airstrike on ...