September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.
Notable Events on September 9
- 1513: Battle of Flodden Field: English forces under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, defeat a Scottish army led by King James IV, who is killed in the battle, along with many Scottish nobles.
- 1776: Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence, which had been adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
- 1813: Battle of Lake Erie: American forces under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeat a British squadron in Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1850: California becomes the 31st state of the United States.
- 1893: First World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas.
- 1948: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is proclaimed in Pyongyang.
- 1975: Soyuz 19 spacecraft docks with the Salyut 4 space station, marking the first manned international space mission.
- 1991: Soviet Union recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 2001: Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, is assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives.
- 2015: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British monarch, surpassing her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
Notable People Born on September 9
- 1779: William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
- 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1860: Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)
- 1890: Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (d. 1935)
- 1908: C.L.R. James, Trinidadian writer and activist (d. 1989)
- 1911: Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
- 1922: Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (d. 1988)
- 1934: Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1941: Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1962: Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter
Notable People Died on September 9
- 1513: James IV, King of Scotland (b. 1473)
- 1898: Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1941: Hans Spemann, German embryologist (b. 1869)
- 1976: Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (b. 1893)
- 1997: Burgie, American inventor of the brassiere (b. 1909)
- 2003: Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
- 2012: Henry Hill, American gangster (b. 1943)
- 2017: Hugh Hefner, American publisher (b. 1926)
- 2020: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1933)
- 2022: Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1926)
Holidays and Observances on September 9
- International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day
- National Ants on a Log Day
- National Bout Time Day
- National Teddy Bear Day
- National Wiener Schnitzel Day
- Portugal: Republic Day
Birthstone and Flower for September 9
- Birthstone: Sapphire (blue)
- Flower: Aster