On this day: 9 September
Events, births and deaths on 9 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · Israeli attack on Doha
- Events · 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland
- Deaths · Mark Norell
10 years ago2016
- Events · September 2016 North Korean nuclear test
100 years ago1926
- Births · Yusuf al-Qaradawi
- Events · Yle
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1087 · Deaths · William the Conqueror
- 1000 · Deaths · Olaf I of Norway
- 1031 · Deaths · Kang Kam-ch'an
Events · 36
- 1141(Julian date)Battle of Qatwan — 1141 battle in Central Asia
- 1320(Julian date)Battle of Saint George — 1320 Part of the Byzantine–Frankish conflicts of the Frankokratia
- 1493Battle of Krbava Field — 1493 battle of the Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War
- 1513(Julian date)Battle of Flodden — 1513 battle during the War of the League of Cambrai between England and Scotland
- 1561(Julian date)Colloquy at Poissy — 1561 conference between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots) in Poissy, France
- 1570(Julian date)Massacre in Nicosia — 16th century Ottoman mass-killing of Greeks
- 1739Stono Rebellion — slave rebellion in colony of South Carolina, 1739
- 1796Action of 8 September 1796 — Minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1850California — state of the United States of America
- 1886Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works — 1880s international copyright treaty adopted by 160+ countries
- 1923Republican People's Party — social-democratic political party in Turkey
- 1924Hanapepe massacre — Filipino sugar workers on Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi killed in 1924
- 1926Yle — Finland's national public-broadcasting company
- 1939Battle of Hel — 1939 battle during WWII
- 1940Treznea massacre — 1940 killing of Romanian civilians by Hungarian forces in Transylvania
- 1943Operation Avalanche — 1943 battle
- 19441944 Bulgarian coup d'état — September 1944 coup d'état in Bulgaria
- 1948North Korea — sovereign state in East Asia
- 1948Premier of North Korea — head of government of North Korea
- 19541954 Chlef earthquake — earthquake of the coast of Algeria
- 1957Civil Rights Act of 1957 — American civil rights law
- 1965United States Department of Housing and Urban Development — cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government
- 1969Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 — aviation accident on September 9, 1969 near Fairland, Indiana
- 1971Attica Prison riot — 1971 prisoner riot at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, USA
- 1976death of Mao Zedong — Funeral and Death of CCP Chairman Mao Zedong
- 19761976 Anapa mid-air collision — mid-air collision of Aeroflot Flight 7957 and Aeroflot Flight 31
- 1988Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 — 1988 aviation accident
- 19901990 Batticaloa massacre — killing of Tamil refugees by the Sri Lankan Army
- 1991Tajikistan — sovereign state in Central Asia
- 2001assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud — September 2001 killing of Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud
- 2010San Bruno pipeline explosion — 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion which killed 8 people
- 2012
- 20129 September 2012 Iraq attacks — terrorist attacks by Salafi jihadists
- 2016September 2016 North Korean nuclear test — September 2016 nuclear test detonation by North Korea
- 2025Israeli attack on Doha — September 2025 Israeli airstrike targeting top Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar
- 20252025 Russian drone incursion into Poland — military incident between Russia and Poland amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Births · 60
- 214Aurelian — Roman Emperor (C.E.214-275)
- 384(Julian date)Honorius — 4th and 5th-century Roman emperor
- 1585Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu — French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)
- 1737Luigi Galvani — Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
- 1754William Bligh — officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)
- 1789William Cranch Bond — American astronomer (1789-1859)
- 1828Leo Tolstoy — Russian author (1828–1910)
- 1855Houston Stewart Chamberlain — British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
- 1873Max Reinhardt — Austrian-American theater director and actor (1873-1943)
- 1878Sergio Osmeña — (1878-1961) President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946
- 1890Harland Sanders — American entrepreneur (1890-1980) who founded KFC
- 1900James Hilton — British novelist and screenwriter (1900–1954)
- 1908Cesare Pavese — Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
- 1911John Gorton — Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1911–2002)
- 1918Oscar Luigi Scalfaro — 9th President of Italy (1918–2012)
- 1922Hans Georg Dehmelt — German physicist (1922-2017)
- 1922Manolis Glezos — Greek politician (1922-2020)
- 1923Daniel Carleton Gajdusek — American medical researcher
- 1923Cliff Robertson — American actor (1923–2011)
- 1924Jane Greer — American actress (1924–2001)
- 1924Sylvia Miles — American actress (1924-2019)
- 1926Yusuf al-Qaradawi — Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar (1926-2022)
- 1927Elvin Jones — American jazz drummer (1927–2004)
- 1928Sol LeWitt — American artist (1928-2007)
- 1934Nicholas Liverpool — President of Dominica (1934-2015)
Deaths · 60
- 1000(Julian date)Olaf I of Norway — King of Norway
- 1087(Julian date)William the Conqueror — King of England from 1066 to 1087, Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 (1028–1087)
- 1191(Julian date)Conrad II, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia (1136-1191)
- 1285Kunigunda of Halych — Queen consort of Bohemia
- 1398(Julian date)Iakovos I of Cyprus — King of Cyprus and Armenia
- 1438(Julian date)Edward I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1433 to 1438
- 1487(Julian date)Chenghua Emperor — 9th Emperor of the Ming dynasty (1447-1487)
- 1488(Julian date)Francis II — Duke of Brittany (1435-1488)
- 1513(Julian date)James IV of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513 (1473-1513)
- 1569(Julian date)Pieter Brueghel the Elder — Flemish painter (1526–1569)
- 1583Humphrey Gilbert — English explorer, politician and soldier (1539-1583)
- 1596Anna Jagiellon — Queen regnant of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania
- 1611Eleanor de' Medici — Family member of the House of Medici (1567-1611)
- 1693Ihara Saikaku — Japanese writer
- 1755Johann Lorenz von Mosheim — German church historian
- 1806William Paterson — Governor of New Jersey (1745-1806)
- 1815John Singleton Copley — American painter (1738-1815)
- 1834James Weddell — British Antarctic explorer
- 1841Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle — Swiss botanist (1778–1841)
- 1875Charles Elliot — British Royal Navy admiral (1801-1875)
- 1891Jules Grévy — French statesman and lawyer (1807–1891)
- 1893Friedrich Traugott Kützing — German phycologist (1807-1893)
- 1898Stéphane Mallarmé — French Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
- 1901Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
- 1915Albert Spalding — American pitcher, manager, and business executive (1850–1915)
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