History for September 9

History for September 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Colonel Harland Sanders 1890, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1923, Cliff Robertson 1925 


Otis Redding 1941, Joe Theismann 1949, Tom Wopat 1951 


Angela Cartwright 1952, Hugh Grant 1960, Adam Sandler 1966 


490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle. 


1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies." 



1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa. 


1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record. 


1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite. 


1948 - North Korea became the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. 


1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower. 


1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title. 


1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees. 


1995 - Amtrak's Broadway Limited service made its final run between New York City, NY and Chicago, IL. 


1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.