9 :e September år 2023

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Today's name is: Anita, Annette. Congratulations on your name day!

This is week: 36

Day of the year is: 252 of total 365 days.

Historical events this day: (from Wikipedia)

• 9 - During the battle of the Teutoburg Forest commits Publius Quinctilius Varus suicide. The battle ends on September 11.
• 1000 – Battle of Svolder fought.
• 1087 – William the Conqueror dies.
• 1141 – ]
• 1493 – ]
• 1513 - Vid James IV's dead, he is succeeded as King of Scotland by his 1-year-old son James V.
  • Battle of Flodden.
• 1776 – Continental Congress, officially names its union of states the United States.
• 1791 – Washington, DC capital of the United States, named by president George Washington.
• 1792 - Massacres are carried out at Orleans, Versailles captures under French Revolution.^[5] Among the dead were Charles-Xavier Franqueville d'Abancourt and Louis Hercule Timoleon de Cossé-Brissac.
• 1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of the Baltic provinces.
• 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
• 1850 – California becomes the 31st state to join the American Union.^[6]
• 1855 – Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) ends when Russian forces leave the city.
• 1857 – H. Goldschmidt detects asteroid 56 Melete.
• 1860 – H. Goldschmidt detects asteroid 61 Danae.
• 1878 – Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters detects asteroid 189 Phthia.
• 1888 – Chile annexes Easter Island.^[7]
• 1892 – Amalthea (moon), the third moon of Jupiter was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
• 1900 – Kullen's lighthouse, the sixth in a row at the same location, is inaugurated. Architect is Magnus Dahlander. Inside rotates the first order Fresnel lenses.
• 1909 – Halley's comet is depicted for the first time photographically.
• 1916 – ]
• 1920 - In the hills of Centralia, Oklahoma, 4 masked bandits rob a bank and escape with $4,000 in cash and liberty bonds.^[9]
• 1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Empire formally surrenders to China.
• 1948 – Kim Il-sung explains the establishment of North Korea.
  • An evacuation is underway on the island ]
• 1954 - Earthquake in northern Algeria and around 1,600 people die and 5,000 people are injured.^[10]
• 1956 – Elvis Presley come to The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes landfall on Grand Isle, Louisiana, just west of the mouth of Mississippi River. The storm travels to the river, and causes that Mississippi River in New Orleans rises by 10 meters and causes significant flooding, leaving 76 people dead. Hurricane Betsy is the first $1 billion storm (without adjusting for inflation) (that was about $15 billion in 2008).^[9]
• 1971 - During the prisoners' riot at the Attica prison in New York, 39 prison guards and staff are taken hostage. They protest against overcrowding. The siege lasts until September 13 when authorities retake the prison but with dire consequences, including the death of ten hostages and 29 other deaths, plus nearly 100 others with serious injuries.^[9]
• 1975 – The space probe Viking 2 launched to explore the planet March.
• 1986 - The police bust one of Sweden's worst robbery gangs, The masquerade league.
• 1987 – Ingvar Carlsson visiting White House.
• 1990 - The Sri Lankan army massacres 184 Tamil civilians. Armed men go to the village ]
• 1991 - Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 – The Riksbank raises the marginal rate to 75 percent.
• 1993 – Israel admits PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
• 1994 - The space shuttle Discovery postponed on assignment STS-64.
• 2001 - The politician Ahmad Shah Massoud is murdered in Afghanistan by two al Qaedakillers claiming to be Arab journalists who want an interview.
• 2003 – Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh makes his last public appearance, at Civic Square in Stockholm.
• 2006 - The space shuttle Atlantis postponed on assignment STS-115.
• 2007 – English language Wikipedia passes 2,000,000 items.
• 2009 – Dubai Metro inaugurated.
• 2012 - A spate of attacks kills at least 108 people and injures at least 371 people in Iraq. The Islamic State is behind the attacks.^[12]
• 2013 – Storting election in Norway 2013
• 2014 - The event known as the Lockhart shootings takes place. A family with children is brutally murdered.^[13]
• 2015 – Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning monarch in Great Britain.
• 2016 - A bomb attack occurs in Baghdad, Iraq and at least 40 people die and at least 60 people are injured. The Islamic State undertakes the deed.^[14]