What Happened on Jul 9

Battle Of The Monongahela

The Battle of the Monongahela took place on 9 July 1755 in the vicinity of present-day Braddock, Pennsylvania, ten miles upstream from Pittsburgh... Read more

National Constituent Assembly formed

The National Constituent Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale constituante) was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789, during the first... Read more

Jozsef Szen Is Born

József Szén (9 July 1805, Pest, Hungary – 13 January 1857) was a Hungarian chess master. He obtained a law degree and later became the municipal... Read more

David Thompson's Party Camps On The Snake River

George Vancouver explored Puget Sound in 1792. Vancouver claimed it for Great Britain on 4 June 1792, naming it for one of his officers, Lieutenant... Read more

John Drake Sloat's Forces Raise An American Flag In Yerba Buena

Commodore John Drake Sloat, upon hearing of imminent war and the revolt in Sonoma, ordered his naval and marine forces to occupy Yerba Buena... Read more

Rowfant Railway Station Is Opened

Rowfant was a railway station on the Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line which closed in 1967, a casualty of the Beeching Axe. The... Read more

Rose O'Neale Greenhow Passes Secret Messages for Confederacy

Espionage during the Civil War The Greenhows had eight children: First came Florence, Gertrude and Leila. Then came four children who would... Read more

Battle of Monocacy - "The Battle that Saved Washington"

Description: After marching north through the Shenandoah Valley from Lynchburg, the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early side-stepped the... Read more

Bell Telephone Company Organized

The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized on July 9, 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner... Read more

Babe Ruth sold to the Boston Red Sox

On July 7, 1914, Dunn offered to trade Ruth, along with Ernie Shore and Ben Egan, to Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Dunn asked $10,000... Read more

German Southwest Africa Surrenders to British-Boer Forces

British-Boer Forces, 20,000 General Louis Botha, Commander-in-Chief General Lukin General Myburgh General Mackenzie General Smuts Colonel Van... Read more

Destruction of HMS Vanguard

The eighth HMS Vanguard was the victim of an internal explosion. Her magazine was detonated by unstable cordite and within seconds the battleship... Read more

Great Train Wreck of 1918

Because somebody blundered, at least 121 persons were killed and fifty-seven injured shortly after 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when Nashville,... Read more

Ronald Reagan Appears as Pat Dunn in "Cowboy from Brooklyn"

Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American film. Ronald Reagan starred in the film. Plot Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified... Read more

Allied Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky) Begins

The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis (Italy... Read more

The first official Quarry Men performance

The first "official" public, albeit unsuccessful, performance by The Quarry Men - they failed to impress when they auditioned before the promoter... Read more

Andy Warhol's first one-man art exhibition

His first one-man art-gallery exhibition as a fine artist was on July 9, 1962, in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles. The exhibition marked the West... Read more

United Airlines Flight 823 Crashes, Killing 39

A United Air Lines Viscount turbo-prop with 39 aboard crashed and burned at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the East Tennessee foothills of the Smokies near... Read more

153 Dead in Pan Am Flight 759 Crash

Pan Am Flight 759, operated by a Boeing 727-235, N4737 Clipper Defiance, was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Miami to Las Vegas, with... Read more

Tron is released

Tron is a 1982 science fiction film by Disney. It stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his program counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu),... Read more

Mitchel Musso Is Born

Mitchel Tate Musso (born July 9, 1991) is an American actor and musician. Musso is perhaps best known for his role as Oliver Oken in the Emmy... Read more

President George W. Bush Awards Nelson Mandela Presidential Medal of Freedom

On July 9 2002 U.S. President George W. Bush presented Nelson Mandela with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House.... Read more

Red Hot Chili Peppers release By the Way

By the Way is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on July 9, 2002, on Warner Bros. Records.... Read more

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl released

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure film, based on the the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme... Read more

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy released

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 comedy film written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The film is a tongue-in-cheek take on the... Read more