September 9
1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from the 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 president's child to be born in the White House.
1919 - Some 1,100 members of Boston's 1,500-man 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.
1942 - During World War II, a Japanese plane launched from a submarine off the coast of Oregon dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt at igniting a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the U.S. mainland by a foreign power.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korean (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 the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights; it 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 siege that ended up claiming 43 lives.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.
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 her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
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.
2021 - President Joe Biden announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to curb the surging COVID-19 delta variant; all employers with more than 100 workers would have to require them to be vaccinated or tested for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. Biden also signed an executive order requiring vaccination for all employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government.
Birthdays
23 - Ronni Hawk (actress)
23 - Inka Williams (model)
25 - Katerina Rozmajzl (model)
27 - Leah Kate (singer)
31 - Hunter Hayes (singer)
31 - Kelsey Chow (actress)
31 - Lauren Daigle (singer)
31 - Kelsey Asbille (actress)
32 - Haley Reinhart (singer)
35 - Natalia Guerrero (actress)
37 - JR Smith (basketball player)
39 - Zoe Kazan (actress)
41 - Julie Gonzalo (actress)
42 - Michelle Williams (actress)
45 - Maria Rita (singer)
47 - Michael Buble (singer)
51 - Henry Thomas (actor)
51 - Eric Stonestreet (actor)
53 - Rachel Hunter (model)
54 - Julia Sawalha (actress)
56 - Adam Sandler (actor)
56 - David Bennett (actor)
57 - Charles Esten (comedian)
57 - Constance Marie (actress)
62 - Hugh Grant (actor)
70 - Angela Cartwright (actress)
71 - Tom Wopat (actor)
73 - Joe Theismann (football player)
77 - Dee Dee Sharp (singer)
80 - Inez Foxx (singer)
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Today in Sports History - September 9
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits the 534th and final home run of his career.
1960 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Boston Patriots 13-10 in the first American Football League regular season game.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL).
1972 - In what many regard as the most controversial game in international basketball history, the Soviet Union defeats the United States 51-50; the U.S. led 50-49, yet the final three seconds of the game was replayed three times until the Soviets finally won.
1972 - #1 Nebraska opens the season with a 20-17 loss to UCLA, snapping a 23-game win streak.
1978 - #10 Nebraska defeats California 36-26.
1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title.
1984 - Running back Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 career yards.
1987 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) got his 4,500th strike out.
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 reach 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 to move him past 60 on 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.
2012 - Shannon Eastin became the first woman to officiate an NFL regular-season game, serving as a line judge in the St. Louis Rams-Detroit Lions game. (Detroit beat St. Louis 27-23.)
2017 - Oregon defeats Nebraska 42-35.
2018 - The Green Bay Packers open their 100th season with a historic 24-23 comeback win over their longtime rivals, the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field.
2021 - Tom Brady becomes the first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games as he guides the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win over the Dallas Cowboys.
1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation from the 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 president's child to be born in the White House.
1919 - Some 1,100 members of Boston's 1,500-man 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.
1942 - During World War II, a Japanese plane launched from a submarine off the coast of Oregon dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt at igniting a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the U.S. mainland by a foreign power.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korean (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 the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights; it 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 siege that ended up claiming 43 lives.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.
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 her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
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.
2021 - President Joe Biden announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to curb the surging COVID-19 delta variant; all employers with more than 100 workers would have to require them to be vaccinated or tested for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. Biden also signed an executive order requiring vaccination for all employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government.
Birthdays
23 - Ronni Hawk (actress)
23 - Inka Williams (model)
25 - Katerina Rozmajzl (model)
27 - Leah Kate (singer)
31 - Hunter Hayes (singer)
31 - Kelsey Chow (actress)
31 - Lauren Daigle (singer)
31 - Kelsey Asbille (actress)
32 - Haley Reinhart (singer)
35 - Natalia Guerrero (actress)
37 - JR Smith (basketball player)
39 - Zoe Kazan (actress)
41 - Julie Gonzalo (actress)
42 - Michelle Williams (actress)
45 - Maria Rita (singer)
47 - Michael Buble (singer)
51 - Henry Thomas (actor)
51 - Eric Stonestreet (actor)
53 - Rachel Hunter (model)
54 - Julia Sawalha (actress)
56 - Adam Sandler (actor)
56 - David Bennett (actor)
57 - Charles Esten (comedian)
57 - Constance Marie (actress)
62 - Hugh Grant (actor)
70 - Angela Cartwright (actress)
71 - Tom Wopat (actor)
73 - Joe Theismann (football player)
77 - Dee Dee Sharp (singer)
80 - Inez Foxx (singer)
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Today in Sports History - September 9
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits the 534th and final home run of his career.
1960 - The Denver Broncos defeated the Boston Patriots 13-10 in the first American Football League regular season game.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL).
1972 - In what many regard as the most controversial game in international basketball history, the Soviet Union defeats the United States 51-50; the U.S. led 50-49, yet the final three seconds of the game was replayed three times until the Soviets finally won.
1972 - #1 Nebraska opens the season with a 20-17 loss to UCLA, snapping a 23-game win streak.
1978 - #10 Nebraska defeats California 36-26.
1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title.
1984 - Running back Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 career yards.
1987 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) got his 4,500th strike out.
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 reach 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 to move him past 60 on 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.
2012 - Shannon Eastin became the first woman to officiate an NFL regular-season game, serving as a line judge in the St. Louis Rams-Detroit Lions game. (Detroit beat St. Louis 27-23.)
2017 - Oregon defeats Nebraska 42-35.
2018 - The Green Bay Packers open their 100th season with a historic 24-23 comeback win over their longtime rivals, the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field.
2021 - Tom Brady becomes the first player in NFL history to start 300 regular season games as he guides the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win over the Dallas Cowboys.
