On This Day:
Wednesday July 9, 2014 This is the 190th day of the year, with 175 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: frogs and toads In general, frogs are more active and like water more than toads -- and have webbed feet while toads have little or no webbing.
Holidays Feast day of St. Veronica de Julianis, St. Nicholas Pieck and his Companions, St. Everild, and the Martyrs of Gorcum.
Argentina: Independence Day.
Morocco: Youth Day.
Events 118 B.C.E. - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain.
1877 - The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club began its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.
1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe of Washington, Missouri.
1893 - The first successful open-heart surgery was performed, in Chicago, by noted African-American doctor Daniel Hale Williams.
1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
1944 - During World War II, American forces secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell.
1947 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Florence Blanchfield to be a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, making her the first woman to hold permanent military rank in U.S. history.
1979 - In Nicaragua, General Anastasio Somoza was overthrown by the Sandinista rebels.
Births 1802 - Thomas Davenport, American inventor of successful electric motor.
1819 - Elias Howe, American inventor of sewing machine.
1929 - Hassan II, ruler of Morocco (1961-1999).
1937 - David Hockney, English painter.
1945 - Dean Koontz, American writer.
1947 - O. J. Simpson (born Orenthal James Simpson), retired American football player, and infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.
1956 - Tom Hanks, American film actor.
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer.
1975 - Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis), American musician.
Deaths 1441 - Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter (his death is usually cited as "before July 9, 1441").
1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States of America.
1974 - Former Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (N.A.).
1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter.
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