9 September

The **9t o September** is the 252t day o the year (253t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 113 days bidin.

## Events

* 1000 - King Olaf Tryggvason o Norawa commits suicide efter the Battle o Svolder.
* 1087 - William the Conqueror, the first Norman King o Ingland, dees.
* 1513 - King James IV o Scotland is kilt at the Battle o Flodden Field naur Branxton, Northumberland, in a decisive Inglis victory an heavy Scots defeat.
* 1543 - Mary, Queen o Scots is crouned in Stirlin.
* 1850 - Californie becomes the 31nt state o the Unitit States.
* 1976 - Mao Zedong, leader o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, dies agit 82.
* 1991 - Tajikistan gains unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
* 2004 - A bomb attack is carried oot at the Australie Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesie.
* 2015 - Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reignin monarch o the Unitit Kinrick, overtakin Queen Victoria.
* 2018 - Twa new Sunday newspapers are published in Scotland - The Sunday National an The Herald on Sunday.

## Births

* 214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 254)
* 384 - Honorius, Wastren Roman Emperor (d. 423)
* 1585 - Cardinal Richelieu, French clergyman, nobleman an statesman (d. 1642)
* 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physeecian an pheesicist (d. 1798)
* 1754 - William Bligh, Inglis naval officer (d. 1817)
* 1758 - Alexander Nasmyth, Scots penter (d. 1840)
* 1798 - Cosmo Innes, Scots advocate, juidge, historian an antiquary (d. 1874)
* 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Roushie novelist (d. 1910)
* 1831 - William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6t Duke o Buccleuch, Scots politeecian an peer (d. 1914)
* 1839 - Maria Swanenburg, Dutch serial killer (d. 1915)
* 1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9nt Preses o Italy (d. 2012)
* 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German pheesicist (d. 2017)
* 1923 - Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
* 1939 - Reuven Rivlin, 10t Preses o Israel
* 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
* 1944 - Christine Grahame, Scots politeecian
* 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6t Preses o Indonesie
* 1960 - Hugh Grant, Inglis actor
* 1964 - Mike Ashley, Inglis billionaire retail entrepreneur
* 1964 - John Hughes, Scots fitbawer an coach
* 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor an comedian
* 1968 - Julia Sawalha, Inglis actress
* 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian sangster
* 1977 - Stuart Price, Inglis DJ, record producer an sangwriter
* 1985 - Luka Modrić, Croatian fitbawer
* 1987 - Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
* 1987
** Jon McLaughlin, Scots fitbawer
** Afrojack (Nick van de Wall), Dutch DJ, record producer an remixer
* 1993 - Stuart Carswell, Scots fitbawer
* 1999 - Bilal Hassani, French-Moroccan sangster-sangwriter

## Daiths

* 1000 - Olaf Tryggvason, Keeng o Norawa (b. 963)
* 1087 - William the Conqueror, Norman Keeng o Ingland (b. 1028)
* 1513 - Daiths at the Battle o Flodden Field: 
**King James IV o Scotland (b. 1473)
**Archibald Campbell, 2nt Yerl o Argyll, Scots nobleman an politeecian (b. 1465)
**Adam Hepburn, 2nt Yerl o Boddle, Scots nobleman
**John Maxwell, 4t Laird Maxwell, Scots nobleman
**Matthew Stewart, 2nt Yerl o Lennox, Scots nobleman (b. 1460)
* 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French airtist (b. 1864)
* 1946 - Violet Jacob, Scots writer (b. 1863)
* 1963 - Duncan Walker, Scots fitbawer (b. 1899)
* 1976 - Mao Zedong, leader o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (b. 1893)
* 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scots poet (b. 1892)
* 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
* 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
* 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-American theoretical pheesicist (b. 1908)

## Halidays
* Admission Day (Californie)
* Independence Day (Tajikistan)
* Naitional Day o North Korea
* Human Richts Day (Colombie)