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

1357: Prague's Charles Brig

2006: Celebrations in Roum for Italy winnin the 2006 FIFA Warld Cup

2011: Banner o Sooth Sudan

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

Births

Oliver Sacks

Mercedes Sosa

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

Daiths

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

Halidays

Banner o Argentinae

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