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09 September, 2007
Wikipedias 2,000,000th article in the English language version.
09 September, 2004
Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Colic to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Colic will be replaced.
09 September, 2001
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
09 September, 1994
Sachin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against Australia in Sri Lanka.
09 September, 1993
The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
09 September, 1991
Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
09 September, 1971
Attica Prison riots.
09 September, 1970
A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawsons Field in Jordan.
09 September, 1969
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.
09 September, 1966
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
09 September, 1965
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established. Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
09 September, 1956
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
09 September, 1948
The Republic Day of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
09 September, 1947
First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
09 September, 1945
Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
09 September, 1944
World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
09 September, 1943
World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
09 September, 1942
World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
09 September, 1926
The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
09 September, 1924
Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
09 September, 1923
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican Peoples Party (CHP).
09 September, 1922
Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
09 September, 1914
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
09 September, 1886
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
09 September, 1863
American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
09 September, 1850
California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texass pre-annexation debt.
09 September, 1839
John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
09 September, 1776
The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
09 September, 1739
Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
09 September, 1543
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
09 September, 1513
James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotlands involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
09 September, 1493
Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
09 September, 1379
Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
09 September, 1000
Battle of Svolder, Notable naval battle of the Viking Age.

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