Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 9

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• Amalthea
  Amalthea
• Flag of Tajikistan
  Flag of Tajikistan
• Flag of North Korea
  Flag of North Korea
• California state flag
  California state flag
• Bust of Constantius II
  Bust of Constantius II
• James IV of Scotland
  James IV of Scotland
• Dubai Metro train
  Dubai Metro train
• Anne of Brittany
  Anne of Brittany
• Explosion damage in San Bruno, California
  Explosion damage in San Bruno, California
• Elizabeth II in 2015
  Elizabeth II in 2015
• Ludwigsburg Palace courtyard
  Ludwigsburg Palace courtyard

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Day of the Foundation of the Republic in North Korea (1948);	refimprove section
Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)	refimprove
National Grandparents Day (2012) in the United States	refimprove
1488 – Anne became Duchess of Brittany, a central figure in the struggle for influence that led to the union of Brittany and France.	unreferenced/refimprove sections
1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: [[James IV of Scotland|Template:Nowrap of Scotland]] was killed at the Battle of Flodden in Northumberland while leading an invasion of England.	James: unreferenced section (Ancestry); Battle: refimprove section
1839 – John Herschel took the first photograph on glass.	refimprove section
1850 – As per the conditions of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted into the United States as a free state, despite the fact that Southern California was south of the parallel 36°30' north.	refimprove section
1944 – With the help of the advancing forces of the Soviet Red Army, the Bulgarian government of Konstantin Muraviev was overthrown and replaced with a government of the Fatherland Front.	refimprove
1965 – Hurricane Betsy made its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., leaving 76 dead and becoming the first hurricane to cause over Template:Nowrap (unadjusted) in damage.	outdated, refimprove section
1968 – The remainder of the area donated to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris County, New Jersey, was dedicated and it became the United States' first refuge to receive wilderness designation.	refimprove
1969 – The Official Languages Act of Canada came into force, giving both French and English equal status throughout the Canadian national government.	refimprove section
1971 – Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, US, taking 33 guards hostage, before police were able to retake the prison four days later.	irrelevant material
1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan Army massacred at least 184 Tamil refugees in the Batticaloa District.	needs more footnotes
2004 – A car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing at least nine people and injuring over 150 others.	globalize
2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula and the world's longest fully automated metro network, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 PM.	outdated
Yusuf al-Qaradawi |b|1926|	BLP with lots of CN
Burgess Meredith|d|1997|	Five CN tags

Eligible

• AD 9 – Germanic Wars: An alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius engaged Roman forces at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, defeating three legions within a few days.
• 337 – After disposing of all relatives who possibly held a claim to the throne, Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans became Roman co-emperors.
• 1141 – Yelü Dashi, the Liao general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeated Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan, near Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan.
• 1320 – Byzantine forces defeated Achaean troops at the Battle of Saint George, taking control of the Arcadia region of Greece.
• 1493 – Ottoman wars in Europe: A large Croatian army intercepted Ottoman forces returning to the Sanjak of Bosnia, but was defeated.
• 1791 – The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it Washington, D.C., in honor of the first president.
• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval engagement between French and British fleets off the coast of Sumatra ended inconclusively.
• 1892 – At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite to be discovered by visual observation.
• 1939 – World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army troops began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland.
• 1954 – A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck near Chlef, killing over 1,200 people and forcing the Algerian government to implement comprehensive reforms in building codes.
• 1957 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
• 1962 – French president Charles de Gaulle delivered his "speech to the German youth" to 20,000 people in the courtyard of Ludwigsburg Palace (pictured).
• 1971 – Imagine, the second solo album by John Lennon (pictured), was released.
• 1999 – The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
• 2010 – A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded and "shot a fireball more than Template:Convert in the air", killing eight people.

• Born/died this day: | Honorius |b|384| Eleanor de' Medici |d|1611| Joseph Leidy |b|1823| Leo Tolstoy |b|1828| Augustin Pyramus de Candolle |d|1841| Mary Hunter Austin |b|1868| Louise Lehzen |d|1870| James Clark |d|1885| Frank Chance |b|1877| Colonel Sanders |b|1890| Gan Eng Seng |d|1899| Soňa Červená |b|1925| Chaim Topol |b|1935| Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono |b|1949| Michelle Williams |b|1980| Jacques Lacan |d|1981| Neil Davis |d|1985| Edward Teller |d|2003| James Earl Jones |d|2024|

Notes

• Residence Act appears on July 16, so Washington DC should not appear in the same year
• Invasion of Poland appears on September 1, so Battle of Hel should not appear in the same year
• Los Angeles appears on September 4, so California should not appear in the same year

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• 1570 – Ottoman–Venetian War: After a 40-day siege, the Cypriot city of Nicosia fell to the Ottomans, leading to a massacre of more than 20,000 citizens.
• 1739 – The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a [[Piper PA-28 Cherokee|Piper Template:Nowrap Cherokee]] flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 occupants of and destroying both aircraft.
• 2001 – Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States.
• 2015 – Elizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.