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Tuesday September 9, 2014 This is the 252nd day of the year, with 113 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: golf leaf An ounce (28 g) of gold can be beaten out to 187 square feet in extremely thin sheets called gold leaf.
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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