TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPT 9
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.
0337 Constantine’s three sons, already Caesars, each take the title of Augustus. Constantine II and Constans share the west while Constantius II takes control of the east.
1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age.
1087 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England, dies in Rouen while conducting a war which began when the French king made fun of him for being fat.
1585 Pope Sixtus V deprives Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown.
1739 Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
1776 The term “United States” is adopted by the Continental Congress to be used instead of the “United Colonies.”
1786 George Washington calls for the abolition of slavery.
1817 Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1834 Parliament passes the Municipal Corporations Act, reforming city and town governments in England.
1850 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1850 California, in the midst of a gold rush, enters the Union as the 31st state.
1892 Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard
1893 President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president’s child to be born in the White House.
1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created – the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1926 The Radio Corporation of America creates the National Broadcasting Co.
1942 A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, makes its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon
1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
1957 The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.
1971 Attica Prison Riot; the 4-day riot leaves 39 dead.
1983 The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.
1986 Frank Reed was taken hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian kidnappers. The director of a private school in Lebanon was released 44 months later.
1990 Sri Lankan Army massacres 184 civilians of the Tamil minority in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
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.
1998 Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.
2001 Two al Qaeda assassins kill Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
2015 Queen Elizabeth becomes longest reigning British monarch
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
