1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
People that were born on September 9th:
384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor
1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur
1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter
1984 – Me :)
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