On This Day:
Monday September 9, 2013 This is the 252nd day of the year, with 113 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: amusement parks The first American amusement park, in the modern sense, was at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago. The 1893 World's Fair was the first to have a Ferris wheel and an arcade midway, as well as various concessions. This conglomeration of attractions was the template used for amusement parks for the next half-century. In 1897, Steeplechase Park became the first of three significant amusement parks opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, using combined attractions in themed "lands" instead of the older formula with traditional rides in one area and a midway, concessions, and sideshow attractions in another.
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 337 - Constantine's three sons, already Caesars, added the title of Augustus. Constantine II and Constans share the west while Constantius II takes control of the east.
1543 - Mary Stuart became the infant Queen of Scotland.
1776 - Second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies."
1834 - Parliament passed the Municipal Corporations Act in England.
1839 - John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.
1850 - California became the 31st state of the Union.
1893 - Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.
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.
1971 - Attica Correctional Facility prisoners rioted and seized control of the maximum-security prison (near Buffalo, New York). The siege ended up claiming 43 lives.
1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
2003 - The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2004 - A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in South Jakarta, killing 10 people and wounding more than 150 others.
Births 1585 - Cardinal Duc Armand Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, Louis XIII's chief minister.
1754 - William Bligh, captain of HMS Bounty.
1828 - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist who wrote "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" and social reformer.
1887 - Alfred Landon (R-Kansas), presidential candidate.
1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American businessman, creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1900 - James Hilton, British novelist who wrote "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye Mr. Chips."
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.
Deaths 1087 - William I (William The Conqueror), king of England and duke of Normandy.
1513 - James IV king of Scotland.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader (Chairman) Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary who took China in 1949 and started the Cultural Revolution in 1965.
1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder.
1997 - Burgess Meredith, American stage, television, and film actor and director.
2003 - Edward Teller (born Teller Ede), Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive.
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