Today in History: July 9
Today in History: July 91887--Samuel Eliot Morison, biographer and historian. - 1755-General Edward Braddock is killed by French and Indian troops.
- 1789-In Versailles, the French National Assembly declares itself the Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare a French constitution.
- 1850-U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
- 1900-The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
- 1942-Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
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