118 | Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, makes his entry into the city. | |
455 | Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, becomes Emperor of the West. | |
1553 | Maurice of Saxony is mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. | |
1609 | Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of worship. | |
1755 | General Edward Braddock is killed by French and Indian troops. | |
1789 | In Versailles, the French National Assembly declares itself the Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare a French constitution. | |
1790 | The Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea. | |
1850 | U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore. | |
1861 | Confederate cavalry led by John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky. | |
1900 | The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government. | |
1942 | Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. | |
1943 | American and British forces make an amphibious landing on Sicily. | |
1971 | The United States turns over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units. | |
Born on July 9 | ||
1764 | Ann Radcliffe, English novelist. | |
1819 | Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine. | |
1858 | Franz Boas, anthropologist. | |
1887 | Samuel Eliot Morison, biographer and historian. | |
1894 | Dorothy Thompson, journalist, writer and radio commentator. | |
1908 | Minor White, abstract photographer. | |
1926 | Mathilde Krim, geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation. | |
1933 | Oliver Sachs, neurologist and author (Awakenings). | |
1936 | June Jordan, poet and author. | |
1937 | David Hockney, painter. |