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July 9

July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Recorded this date

Events

• 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the western Roman Empire.
• 1540 - Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
• 1749 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
• 1755 - French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
• 1789 - In Versailles, the National Constituent Assembly is formed by the French National Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
• 1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
• 1793 - Act Against Slavery passes in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
• 1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain
• 1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
• 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
• 1900 - Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
• 1918 - Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101.
• 1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
• 1942 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
• 1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
• 1944 - World War II: British and Canadian forces capture Caen.
• 1945 - A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.
• 1968 - Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
• 1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 on board and eight on the ground.
• 1991 - International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec.
• 1997 - Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.

Births

• 1764 - Ann Radcliffe, writer (d. 1823)
• 1819 - Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1867)
• 1900 - Ida Ehre, actress (d. 1989)
• 1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland, romance novelist, step-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 2000)
• 1908 - Paul Brown
• 1916 - Edward Heath, politician
• 1925 - Peter Ludwig, entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1996)
• 1927 - Susan Cabot, actress
• 1927 - Ed Ames, actor
• 1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (d. 1999)
• 1937 - David Hockney, artist (Pop art)
• 1938 - Brian Dennehy, actor
• 1942 - Richard Roundtree, actor
• 1943 - Jon Casper, US astronaut
• 1946 - Bon Scott, singer: AC/DC (d. 1980)
• 1947 - O. J. Simpson, football player, actor
• 1952 - John Tesh, composer
• 1956 - Tom Hanks, actor
• 1956 - Marc Almond, singer
• 1958 - Jimmy Smits, actor
• 1965 - Frank Bello, bassist in the Anthrax rock band
• 1965 - Courtney Love, musician
• 1976 - Fred Savage, actor

Deaths

• 1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman
• 1850 - Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad, also known as the Báb, founder of the Babi Faith
• 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th US president (b. 1784)
• 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, chemist
• 1937 - Oliver Law, first African American commander of US troops, killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War.
• 1974 - Earl Warren, former governor of California, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress, author
• 1992 - Eric Sevareid, reporter
• 1996 - Melvin Belli, attorney
• 2002 - Rod Steiger, actor

Holidays and observances

• Argentina - Independence Day
• Palau - Constitution Day
• Bahá'í Faith:Holy Day - Martyrdom of the Báb

Recorded this date

• 1908 "It's The Pretty Things You Say" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder)
  - Amy Butler
• 1912 "Border Ballad" (Cowen)
  - Peter Dawson
• 1912 "The Lowland Sea" (Branscombe)
  - Peter Dawson
• 1912 "When The Ebbtide Flows" (Gordon)
  - Peter Dawson
• 1920 "Dark Grows The Sky" (w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson)
  - Jose Collins with Daly's Theatre Orchestra
• 1920 "To Gain A Brief Advantage" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  - Violet Essex w. chorus (Peter Dawson, George Baker, Robert Radford & Edna Thornton) with O/George W. Byng
• 1920 "When The Foeman Bares His Steel" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  - Peter Dawson, Violet Essex & George Baker with O/George W. Byng
• 1923 "Along The Road To Gundagai" (w.m. Jack O'Hagan)
  - Leonard Hubbard
• 1926 "Baby Face" (w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst)
  - Ben Selvin & his Orchestra
• 1927 "Me And My Shadow" (w.m. Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose & Al Jolson)
  - piano Lee Sims
• 1929 "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" (w.m. Carson Robison & Frank Luther)
  - Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
• 1929 "The King Of Borneo" (w.m. Frank Crumit)
  - Len Maurice (as Art Leonard) with
• 1929 "Young Tom O' Devon" (w. Harold Simpson m. Robert C. Kennedy Russell,)
  - Peter Dawson
• 1929 "Glorious Devon" (Boulton & German)
  - Peter Dawson with O/George W. Byng
• 1929 "A Jovial Monk Am I" (w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran)
  - Peter Dawson with O/George W. Byng
• 1929 "Moanin' Low" (w. Howard Dietz m. Ralph Rainger)
  - Libby Holman with The Cotton Pickers
• 1929 "He's A Good Man To Have Around" (w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager)
  - Libby Holman with The Cotton Pickers
• 1929 "Ain't Misbehavin'" (w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats"Waller & Harry Brooks)
  - Lew Conrad with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
• 1929 "Burnin' The Iceberg" (m. Jelly Roll Morton)
  - Jelly-Roll Morton & his Red Hot Peppers
• 1937 "The Two Grenadiers" (w. Heinrich Heine m. Robert Schumann)
  - Peter Dawson
• 1937 "If Music Be The Food Of Love" (Travers)
  - Peter Dawson

• 1937 "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Aileen Stanley with O/Ronnie Munro
• 1937 "Smilin' Through" (w.m. Arthur A. Penn)
  - Richard Tauber with O/Walter Goehr
• 1938 "A-tisket, A-tasket" (trad (w.m. Ella Fitzgerald & Al Feldman))
  - Edythe Wright with Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven
• 1940 "Meet The Sun Halfway" (w. Johnny Burke m. James V. Monaco)
  - Sam Browne with Louis Levy & his Orchestra
• 1940 "I Haven't Time To Be A Millionaire" (w. Johnny Burke m. James V. Monaco)
  - Sam Browne with Louis Levy & his orchestra
• 1940 "Frasquita Serenade" (m. Franz Lehar)
  - John Kirby & his Band
• 1942 "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" (w. Edward Madden m. Gus Edwards)
  - Bing Crosby with Capt. Eddie Dunstedter & The West Coast American Air Force Training Center Orchestra
• 1942 "But Not For Me" (w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin)
  - Bing Crosby with Capt. Eddie Dunstedter & The West Coast American Air Force Training Center Orchestra
• 1942 "Taboo" (w. S. K. (Bob) Russell m. Margarita Lecuona)
  - Tommy Ryan, Don Cornell & Glee Club with Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye
• 1944 "Tenement Symphony" (w. Sid Kuller & Ray Golden m. Hal Borne)
  - Sally Douglas with Geraldo & his Orchestra
• 1946 "Just Squeeze Me" (w. Lee Gaines m. Duke Ellington)
  - Ray Nance with Duke Ellington
• 1948 "October Twilight" (w. Guy Wood m. Henry Hadley)
  - Archie Lewis with Geraldo & his Orchestra
• 1954 "Shaun, Shaun, The Leprechaun"
  - Rosemary Clooney & The Quartones with O/Sid Feller
• 1954 "The Little Shoemaker" (w.(Eng) John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons (Fr) Avril Lamarque m. Rudi Revil)
  - Rosemary Clooney & The Quartones with O/Sid Feller
• 1954 "(Let's Give) A Christmas Present To Santa Claus"
  - Rosemary Clooney & The Quartones with O/Sid Feller
• 1957 "My Special Angel" (w.m. Jimmy Duncan)
  - Bobby Helms w. Anita Kerr Singers
• 1962 "Blowin' In The Wind" (w.m. Bob Dylan)
  - Bob Dylan

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