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On This Day: Friday, September 9, 2005

This is the 252nd day of the year, with 113 days remaining in 2005.

Holidays

Italy: Salerno Day (Allied landing).
Japan: Chrysanthemum Day.
Tajikistan: Independence Day (from USSR 1991).
California: Admission Day.
France: Pffiferdaj (Day of the Flutes).
North Korea: National holiday in Democratic People's Republic of (North).
Belize: National Day, St George's Caye Day.

Events

1776 - Second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1839 - John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.
1850 - California became the 31st state of the Union.
1908 - Orville Wright made the first one-hour airplane flight at Fort Myer, Virginia.
1926 - National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) was formed by the Radio Corporation of America.
1942 - Rare attack on U.S. mainland by Japanese occurred; they dropped incendiaries on Oregon in hopes of starting forest fires.
1956 - Elvis Presley's first American appearance, on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 - France left NATO in protest of the U.S.'s domination of the organization.


Births

1754 - William Bligh, captain of HMS Bounty.
1828 - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist who wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" and social reformer.
1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American businessman, creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1919 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American sportscaster.
1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor.
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer/songwriter.
1946 - Billy Preston, American pianist/singer.
1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor.
1966 - Adam Sandler, American comedian and actor.
1967 - Faith Hill, American country singer.