09 July History
- 118 - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, makes his entry into the city.
- 455 - Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, becomes Emperor of the West.
- 1553 - Maurice of Saxony is mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
- 1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of worship.
- 1755 - General Edward Braddock is killed by French and Indian troops.
- 1789 - In Versailles, the French National Assembly declares itself the Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare a French constitution.
- 1790 - The Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
- 1850 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
- 1861 - Confederate cavalry led by John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky.
- 1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
- 1942 - Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- 1943 - American and British forces make an amphibious landing on Sicily.
- 1971 - The United States turns over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.
09 July Birthdays
- 1764 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist.
- 1819 - Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine.
- 1858 - Franz Boas, anthropologist.
- 1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, biographer and historian.
- 1894 - Dorothy Thompson, journalist, writer and radio commentator.
- 1908 - Minor White, abstract photographer.
- 1926 - Mathilde Krim, geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation.
- 1933 - Oliver Sachs, neurologist and author (Awakenings).
- 1936 - June Jordan, poet and author.
- 1937 - David Hockney, painter.