09-08-2009, 08:41 PM
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September 9th
1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress officially named their new country the United States.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).
1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug.
1967 ~ Birthday of Anna Malle, Porn Star.
1976 ~ Death of Mao Zedong, chief architect of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
1987 ~ Extradition to Belgium of twenty-five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster.
1993 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) officially recognized Israel as a legitimate state.
2001 ~ The leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
2003 ~ Death of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist, "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb".
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