Ed Sullivan (left) and Elvis Presley (right), 1956

Today in History

• At the age of nine months, Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of Scots (1543)
• The largest pre-Revolution slave uprising in Britain’s North American colonies, the Stono Rebellion, begins (1739)
• The Continental Congress officially names itself the United States of America (1776)
• The first glass-plate photograph is taken (1839)
• California becomes a US state (1850)
• The US takes control of a third of Texas’s claimed territory in return for assuming $10 million off Texas’s pre-annexation debt (1850)
• World War II: The Japanese bomb Oregon (1942)
• The first computer bug, a moth lodging in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer, is found (1947)
• Kim Il-Sung establishes the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea (1948)
• Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show (1956)
• The Attica prison riot ends with 39 dead (1971)
• The PLO officially recognizes Israel as a state (1993)
• Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning UK monarch (2015)

Birthdays

• Aurelian, Roman emperor (214)
• Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (1466)
• Cardinal Richelieu, French politician (1585)
• Luigi Galvani, physician and physicist (1737)
• William Bligh, commander of HMS Bounty (1754)
• Leo Tolstoy, author (1828)
• Alf Landon, US presidential candidate (1878)
• Colonel Sanders, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (1890)
• Arthur Freed, film composer and producer (1894)
• James Hilton, author (1900)
• Phyllis A. Whitney, author (1903)
• Joseph E. Levine, film producer (1905)
• Cliff Robertson, actor (1923)
• Jane Greer, actress (1924)
• Elvin Jones, drummer (1927)
• Chaim Topol, actor and singer (1935)
• Joe Theismann, football player (1949)
• Tom Wopat, actor (1951)
• John Kricfalusi, animation director (1955)
• Hugh Grant, actor (1960)
• Adam Sandler, comedian and actor (1966)
• Michael Bublé, singer-songwriter (1975)
• Michelle Williams, actress (1980)
• Crazy Mary Dobson, wrestler (1993)

Deaths

• William the Conquerer, English/French monarch (1087)
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder, painter (1569)
• Toulouse-Lautrec, painter (1901)
• Albert Spalding, baseball player, founder of Spalding Sporting Goods (1915)
• John McGiver, actor (1975)
• Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (1976)
• Jack L. Warner, co-founded Warner Brothers (1978)
• Samuel Doe, Liberian president (1990)
• Helen O’Connell, singer (1993)
• Patrick O’Neal, actor (1994)
• Bill Monroe, singer-songwriter (1996)
• Burgess Meredith, actor (1997)
• Catfish Hunter, baseball player (1999)
• Edward Teller, physicist (2003)

Holidays and Observances

• Armed Forces Day (Ukraine)
• California Admission Day (California)
• Children’s Day (Costa Rica)
• Chrysanthemum Day (Japan)
• Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence (Slovakia)
• Independence Day (North Korea)
• Independence Day (Tajikistan)
• Martyr’s Day (Afghanistan)
• National Steak au Poivre Day (US)
• Remembrance for Herman the Cheruscan (The Troth)
• Wienerschnitzel Day (US)
• Wonderful Weirdos Day (Chase’s Calendar of Events)

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.