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June 9, 1534 - Jacques Cartier
became the first to sail into the river he named the Saint Lawrence River.
June 9, 1732 – James Oglethorpe was
granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
June 9, 1772 - Off the coast of
Rhode Island,the HMS Gaspee ran aground while chasing the packet boat Hannah.
The ship was an armed British customs schooner. The next morning the ship was
attacked and burned.
June 9, 1790 - John Barry
copyrighted the “Philadelphia Spelling Book,” making it the first American book
to be copyrighted.
June 9, 1815 - Alabama author
Johnson Jones Hooper was born in Wilmington, N.C.
June 9, 1822 - Charles Graham received the first patent for
false teeth.
June 9, 1856 – Five hundred Mormons
left Iowa City, Iowa, and headed west for Salt Lake City carrying all their
possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
June 9, 1860 – The first dime
novel, “Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter” by Ann S. Stephens, was
published. It was the first of 321 novels published by Beadle & Adams in
their series Beadle’s Dime Novels.
June 9, 1861 - Mary Ann
"Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals.
June 9, 1862 – During the Civil
War, Stonewall Jackson concluded his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with
a victory in the Battle of Port Republic. His tactics during the campaign are
now studied by militaries around the world.
June 9, 1863 - In Virginia, the Battle of Brandy Station
occurred. It was the largest cavalry battle of the war. Confederate General
J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry held the field after being attacked by Union troops
under General Alfred Pleasonton.
June 9, 1864-March 25, 1865 – The Siege of Petersburg, Va.
took place during the Civil War. William Haskins of the Conecuh Guards was
killed at Petersburg, and 3rd Sgt. Louis Stahl of the Conecuh Guards wounded
there in October 1864 at Petersburg. Stahl had his arm resected, survived war
and moved to Marlin, Texas. Lewis Lavon Peacock also claimed to have been wounded
at Petersburg.
June 9, 1865 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson moved into the
White House, nearly two months after the death of Abraham Lincoln.
June 9, 1870 – In Higham, Kent, England, novelist Charles
Dickens suffered a stroke, fell off his chair at the dinner table and died at
the age of 58.
June 9, 1891 – Song-writer Cole Porter was born in Peru,
Indiana.
June 9, 1892 – Canadian-English captain and explorer William
Grant Stairs, 28, died from malaria and was buried in the European Cemetery in
Chinde, Mozambique at the mouth of the Zambezi River. He played a leading role
in two of the most controversial expeditions in the history of the colonisation
of Africa, the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and the
Stairs Expedition to Katanga.
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June 9, 1914 - Honus Wagner became the second player in
major league history to record 3,000 hits.
June 9, 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigned as Woodrow
Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States'
handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
June 9, 1924 – Lamar W. Matkin purchased The Evergreen
Courant in Evergreen, Ala.
June 9, 1926 – The Electrik-Maid Bake Shop opened in
Evergreen, Ala. under the management of J.O. Stapp.
June 9, 1934 – Donald Duck made his debut in “The Wise Little
Hen.”
June 9, 1943 - The famed “Tuskegee Airmen” were involved in their first air battle with German fighter planes in the skies over North Africa. These flyers from the 99th Fighter Squadron were among those trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field, the center for pilot training of African Americans during World War II.
June 9, 1944 - A foxhound named Lena in Pennsylvania gave birth to a record litter- 23 puppies.
June 9, 1946 - Mel Ott of the New York Giants became the
first manager to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader.
June 9, 1946 - Ted Williams
hit the longest home run inside Fenway Park. The ball traveled 502 feet and
landed in Seat 21 in Row 37 of Section 42. It is marked now by an iconic red
seat.
June 9, 1956 – Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell was born in
Miami, Fla.
June 9, 1957 – The First ascent of Broad Peak was achieved
by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl.
June 9, 1963 – Actor Johnny Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky.
June 9, 1966 - Minnesota set a Major League Baseball record
when they hit six home runs in one inning.
June 9, 1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a
national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F.
Kennedy.
June 9, 1969 – Thomas Charles Littles of Brooklyn, Ala.
arrived in Vietnam. He would later be fatally wounded.
June 9, 1977 – Oakey Streak Methodist Church near
Greenville, Ala. was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
June 9, 1994 - Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes of TLC set
fire to her boyfriend's house. Her boyfriend was Andre Rison of the Atlanta
Falcons.
June 9, 1996 - Frank Thomas of the Chicago White Sox hit his
200th career home run.
June 9, 1996 - Ryan Hancock became the first California
Angel pitcher to get a hit in 24 years. Nolan Ryan was the previous pitcher to
get a hit for the Angels in 1972.
June 9, 1998 – Mark Childress’ fifth novel, “Gone for Good,”
was released by Knopf.
June 9, 1998 – David C. Fleming, who taught vocational
agribusiness at Evergreen High School for 30 years, was inducted into the
Future Farmers of America Wall of Honor during the FFA state convention at the
Montgomery Civic Center.
June 9, 2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it
had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr.
June 9, 2003 - Alabama author Robert O. Bowen died in
Anchorage, Alaska.
June 9, 2005 – Police arrested Jordan Van der Sloot, 17,
Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, on suspicion of kidnapping and
murdering Natalee Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala.
June 9, 2008 - Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds hit
his 600th career home run. Only Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays
and Sammy Sosa had more runs at the time.
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