Today in History
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Birthdays
1585 Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France
1754 William Bligh, nasty ship's captain
1789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, codiscover of Hyperion
1850 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi
1925 Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly)
Events
Admission Day, a California Holiday.
1513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
1776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
1850 California becomes the 31st state.
1867 Luxembourg gains independence.
1892 E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter.
1926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1942 First bombing of the continental US, at Mount Emily Oregon by a Japanese plane launched from a submarine.
1975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
1982 "Conestoga I", the world's first private rocket, is launched.
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