September 9
1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from "United Colonies" to the "United States of America".
1850 - California became the 31st state.
1893 - President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first (and to date, the only) president's child to be born in the White House.
1919 - Nearly 1,100 members of Boston's 1,500-member police force went on strike. (The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge with replacement officers.)
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1932 - The steamboat Observation exploded in New York's East River, killing 72 people.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights and which also established a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice.
1971 - Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 - Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
2001 - Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 - The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
2009 - Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's address to Congress on health care.
2011 - New Yorkers and Washingtonians shrugged off talk of a new terror threat as intelligence officials scrambled to nail down information on a possible al-Qaida strike timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
2015 - Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch in British history, serving as sovereign for 23,226 days (about 63 years and 7 months), according to Buckingham Palace, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother.
2015 - New York became the first U.S. city to require salt warnings on chain-restaurant menus.
2016 - Defying the White House, Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation giving the families of victims of the September 11 attacks the right to sue Saudi Arabia. (Obama vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode his veto.)
2016 - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City, described half of Republican Donald Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables,” a characterization for which she ended up expressing regret.
Birthdays
22 - Ronni Hawk (actress)
22 - Inka Williams (model)
24 - Katerina Rozmajzl (model)
30 - Hunter Hayes (country singer)
30 - Lauren Daigle (singer)
30 - Kelsey Asbille (actress)
30 - Kelsey Chow (actress)
31 - Haley Reinhart (singer)
36 - JR Smith (basketball player)
38 - Zoe Kazan (actress)
40 - Julie Gonzalo (actress)
41 - Michelle Williams (actress)
44 - Maria Rita (singer)
46 - Michael Buble (singer)
50 - Henry Thomas (actor)
50 - Eric Stonestreet (actor)
51 - Gizelle Bryant (reality star)
52 - Rachel Hunter (model)
53 - Julia Sawalha (actress)
55 - Adam Sandler (actor/comedian)
55 - David Bennett (actor)
56 - Constance Marie (actress)
56 - Charles Esten (actor/comedian)
61 - Hugh Grant (actor)
69 - Angela Cartwright (actress)
70 - Tom Wopat (actor)
72 - Joe Theismann (football player)
76 - Dee Dee Sharp (singer)
79 - Inez Foxx (singer)
86 - Topol (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 9
1904 - The Boston Herald again refers to the New York American League franchise as "Yankees" when it reports "Yankees take 2." (The Yankee name was not official for the team until 1913.)
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits the 534th and final home run of his career.
1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.
1960 - In the first regular-season American Football League (AFL) game, the Denver Broncos defeated the Boston Patriots, 13-10.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs; it was the eighth perfect game in MLB history and Koufax's fourth career no-hitter.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings announced his retirement from the NHL.
1972 - Two-time defending national champion and top-ranked Nebraska opens the season on the road with a 20-17 loss to UCLA.
1978 - #10 Nebraska defeats California 36-26.
1979 - At age 16, Tracy Austin became the youngest player to ever win a U.S. Open women's tennis championship.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record with 15,517.
1987 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros recorded his 4,500th career strikeout.
1989 - #4 Nebraska opens the season with a 48-17 win over Northern Illinois.
1991 - Boxer Mike Tyson was indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant. (Tyson was convicted and ended up serving three years of a six-year prison sentence.)
1992 - Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers became the 17th player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats Michigan State 50-10.
1998 - The New York Yankees officially clinched the American League East title. It was the earliest in AL history. The Yankees ended the season 20 1/2 games ahead of second-place Boston.
2000 - #1 Nebraska defeats #23 Notre Dame 27-24 in overtime.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit three home runs in a game to give him 63 for the season.
2002 - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record.
2006 - #21 Nebraska defeats Nicholls State 56-7.
2016 - Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
2017 - Oregon defeats Nebraska 42-35.
1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from "United Colonies" to the "United States of America".
1850 - California became the 31st state.
1893 - President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first (and to date, the only) president's child to be born in the White House.
1919 - Nearly 1,100 members of Boston's 1,500-member police force went on strike. (The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge with replacement officers.)
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1932 - The steamboat Observation exploded in New York's East River, killing 72 people.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights and which also established a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice.
1971 - Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 - Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
2001 - Afghanistan's military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 - The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
2009 - Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's address to Congress on health care.
2011 - New Yorkers and Washingtonians shrugged off talk of a new terror threat as intelligence officials scrambled to nail down information on a possible al-Qaida strike timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
2015 - Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch in British history, serving as sovereign for 23,226 days (about 63 years and 7 months), according to Buckingham Palace, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother.
2015 - New York became the first U.S. city to require salt warnings on chain-restaurant menus.
2016 - Defying the White House, Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation giving the families of victims of the September 11 attacks the right to sue Saudi Arabia. (Obama vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode his veto.)
2016 - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking at an LGBT fundraiser in New York City, described half of Republican Donald Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables,” a characterization for which she ended up expressing regret.
Birthdays
22 - Ronni Hawk (actress)
22 - Inka Williams (model)
24 - Katerina Rozmajzl (model)
30 - Hunter Hayes (country singer)
30 - Lauren Daigle (singer)
30 - Kelsey Asbille (actress)
30 - Kelsey Chow (actress)
31 - Haley Reinhart (singer)
36 - JR Smith (basketball player)
38 - Zoe Kazan (actress)
40 - Julie Gonzalo (actress)
41 - Michelle Williams (actress)
44 - Maria Rita (singer)
46 - Michael Buble (singer)
50 - Henry Thomas (actor)
50 - Eric Stonestreet (actor)
51 - Gizelle Bryant (reality star)
52 - Rachel Hunter (model)
53 - Julia Sawalha (actress)
55 - Adam Sandler (actor/comedian)
55 - David Bennett (actor)
56 - Constance Marie (actress)
56 - Charles Esten (actor/comedian)
61 - Hugh Grant (actor)
69 - Angela Cartwright (actress)
70 - Tom Wopat (actor)
72 - Joe Theismann (football player)
76 - Dee Dee Sharp (singer)
79 - Inez Foxx (singer)
86 - Topol (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 9
1904 - The Boston Herald again refers to the New York American League franchise as "Yankees" when it reports "Yankees take 2." (The Yankee name was not official for the team until 1913.)
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits the 534th and final home run of his career.
1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.
1960 - In the first regular-season American Football League (AFL) game, the Denver Broncos defeated the Boston Patriots, 13-10.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs; it was the eighth perfect game in MLB history and Koufax's fourth career no-hitter.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings announced his retirement from the NHL.
1972 - Two-time defending national champion and top-ranked Nebraska opens the season on the road with a 20-17 loss to UCLA.
1978 - #10 Nebraska defeats California 36-26.
1979 - At age 16, Tracy Austin became the youngest player to ever win a U.S. Open women's tennis championship.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record with 15,517.
1987 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros recorded his 4,500th career strikeout.
1989 - #4 Nebraska opens the season with a 48-17 win over Northern Illinois.
1991 - Boxer Mike Tyson was indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant. (Tyson was convicted and ended up serving three years of a six-year prison sentence.)
1992 - Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers became the 17th player in major league history to record 3,000 career hits.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats Michigan State 50-10.
1998 - The New York Yankees officially clinched the American League East title. It was the earliest in AL history. The Yankees ended the season 20 1/2 games ahead of second-place Boston.
2000 - #1 Nebraska defeats #23 Notre Dame 27-24 in overtime.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit three home runs in a game to give him 63 for the season.
2002 - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record.
2006 - #21 Nebraska defeats Nicholls State 56-7.
2016 - Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson were inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
2017 - Oregon defeats Nebraska 42-35.
