History for July 9 - On-This-Day.com
Ann Radcliffe 1764, Elias Howe 1819, Lee Hazlewood 1929
O.J. Simpson 1947 - Football player, actor, Tom Hanks 1956 - Actor, Fred Savage 1976 - Actor ("The Wonder Years")
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.
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