9 Julie

The **9t o Julie** is the 190t day o the year (191t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 175 days ti come.

## Events

*455 &ndash; The Roman militar commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor o the Wastren Roman Empire.
*1357 &ndash; The Foondation Stane for Prague's Charles Brig is laid.
*1540 &ndash; Henry VIII o Ingland annuls his marriage tae Anne o Cleves.
*1810 &ndash; Napoleon I annexes the Netherlands.
*1816 &ndash; Argentinae declares unthirldom frae Spain.
*1850 &ndash; Millard Fillmore becomes Preses o the Unitit States on the daith o Zachary Taylor.
*1877 &ndash; The first Wimbledon Championships in tennis stairt.
*1900 &ndash; The Federation o Australie gets ryal assent.
*1903 &ndash; Joseph Stalin is exiled tae Siberie.
*1972 &ndash; In Belfast, Breetish airmy snipers kill 5 civilians in the Springhill massacre.
*1979 &ndash; Voyager 2 flies bi Jupiter.
*1981 &ndash; The Donkey Kong video game is released, featurin the character o Mario.
*1986 &ndash; Homosexuality is legalisit in New Zealand.
*1991 &ndash; Sooth Africae is readmittit tae the Olympic muivement efter bein banned durin Apartheid.
*1995 &ndash; The Navaly kirk bombin  bi the Sri Lankan air force kills 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
*2002 &ndash; The African Union replaces the Organisation o African Unity.
*2006 &ndash; A plane crash in Irkutsk, Siberie, Roushie, kills ower 120 fowk.
*2006 &ndash; Italy wins the FIFA Warld Cup for a 4t time, against Fraunce, in Berlin, Germany.
*2007 &ndash; First snaw in Buenos Aires since 1918.
*2011 &ndash; Sooth Sudan gains unthirldom an secedes frae Sudan.
*2018 &ndash; Boris Johnson demits as the Breetish Furrin Secretar an is replaced wi Jeremy Hunt.
*2018 &ndash; Ethiopie an Eritrea agree an end tae the war ower their common mairch.

## Births

*1578 &ndash; Ferdinand II, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
*1834 &ndash; Jan Neruda, Czech journalist an poet (d. 1891)
*1858 &ndash; Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist (d. 1918)
*1911 &ndash; Simon Fraser, 15t Laird Lovat, Scots commando (d. 1995)
*1914 &ndash; Willi Stoph, East German politeecian (d. 1999)
*1916 &ndash; Edward Heath, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 2005)
*1926 &ndash; Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Dens nuclear pheesicist
*1929 &ndash; Hassan II o Morocco (d. 1999)
*1930 &ndash; Yu So-chow, Cheenese actress an sangster (d. 2017)
*1932 &ndash; Donald Rumsfeld, American politeecian
*1933 &ndash; Oliver Sacks, Inglis neurologist an writer (d. 2015)
*1935 &ndash; Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian sangster an activist (d. 2009)
*1936 &ndash; Richard Wilson, Scots actor
*1937 &ndash; David Hockney, Inglis artist
*1945 &ndash; Dean Koontz, American writer
*1950 &ndash; Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian politeecian, 4t Preses o Ukraine
*1955 &ndash; Lindsey Graham, American politeecian
*1956 &ndash; Tom Hanks, American actor
*1959 &ndash; Jim Kerr, Scots muisicker
*1964 &ndash; Courtney Love, American sangster, muisicker an actress
*1976 &ndash; Fred Savage, American actor
*1985 &ndash; Ashley Young, Inglis fitbawer
*1987 &ndash; Jonny Hayes, Erse fitbawer
*1989 &ndash; Henry Pyrgos, Scots rugby union player
*1991 &ndash; Kyle Smith, Scots curler
*1996 &ndash; Scott McMann, Scots fitbawer
*1999 &ndash; Claire Corlett, Canadian actress an sangster

## Daiths
*1546 &ndash; Robert Maxwell, 5t Laird Maxwell, Scots nobleman (b. 1493)
*1746 &ndash; Philip V o Spain (b. 1683)
*1797 &ndash; Edmund Burke, Breetish-Erse statesman (b. 1729)
*1850 &ndash; Báb, Persie releegious leader, foondit Bábism (b. 1819)
*1850 &ndash; Zachary Taylor, 12nt Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1784)
*1856 &ndash; Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
*2002 &ndash; Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
*2018 &ndash; Oliver Knussen, Scots componer (b. 1952)
*2019 &ndash; Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Argentinae, Sooth Sudan)
* Constitution Day (Australie, Palau)