09-09-2005, 05:07 AM
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September 9th
1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.
1737 ~ Birthday of Luigi Galvani, Italian Physician and Physicist.
1754 ~ Birthday of William Bligh, British naval officer.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress officially named their new country the United States.
1824 ~ Birthday of Anton Bruckner, Austrian Composer.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).
1839 ~ John Herschel took the first astronomical glass plate photograph.
1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug.
1956 ~ Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
2001 ~ Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
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