THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― SEPTEMBER 9

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

NATIONAL TEDDY BEAR DAY  

9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Arminius was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci and a former officer in the Roman military

533 – A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.

1493 – Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.

1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States of America.

1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.

1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard.

1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.

1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. ― From EDN Network

1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.

1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.

2001 – The Unix billennium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.

2012 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.

2015 – Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.

TODAY'S BIRTHS

1585 – Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (d. 1642)

1887 – Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansa, unsuccessfully challenged FDR for president in 1936 (d. 1987)

1890 – Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (d. 1980)

1926 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (d. 2014)

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.