September 9 - Opening Day

Opening Day

This Day In History

9

Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

1543

Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1776

The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.

1839

John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

1926

The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.

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.

1956

Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1995

The debut of the Sony Playstation.

2001

At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.

Famous Birthdays

1585

Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)

1754

William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)

1828

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)

1890

Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)

1894

Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)

1903

Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)

1919

Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)

1923

Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)

1935

Chaim Topol, Israeli actor

1941

Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)

1949

Garry Maddox, American baseball player

1951

Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
1954
Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1960
Hugh Grant, English actor