9 July
Notable Births
Conor Bradley
b. 2003
Northern Irish footballer (born 2003)
Claire Corlett
b. 1999
Canadian actress (born 1999)
Mitch Larkin
b. 1993
Australian swimmer
DeAndre Yedlin
b. 1993
American soccer player (born 1993)
Mitchel Musso
b. 1991
American actor and singer (born 1991)
Earl Bamber
b. 1990
New Zealand racing driver
Fabio (footballer, born 1990)
b. 1990
Brazilian former footballer (born 1990)
Rafael (footballer, born 1990)
b. 1990
Brazilian former footballer (born 1990)
Raul Rusescu
b. 1988
Romanian footballer (born 1988)
Gert Jõeäär
b. 1987
Estonian cyclist (born 1987)
Rebecca Sugar
b. 1987
American animator and musician (born 1987)
Sébastien Bassong
b. 1986
Cameroonian professional footballer (born 1986)
Simon Dumont
b. 1986
American freestyle skier
Kiely Williams
b. 1986
American singer
Paweł Korzeniowski
b. 1985
Polish swimmer (born 1985)
Ashley Young
b. 1985
English footballer (born 1985)
Chris Campoli
b. 1984
Canadian ice hockey player
Jacob Hoggard
b. 1984
Canadian singer-songwriter
LA Tenorio
b. 1984
Filipino basketball player and coach (born 1984)
O. J. Simpson
b. 1947
American football player and actor (1947–2024)
Notable Deaths
Ian Blair
d. 2025
British police officer (1953–2025)
Glen Michael
d. 2025
British television presenter and entertainer (1926–2025)
Joe Bonsall
d. 2024
American singer (1948–2024)
Diana Hill (scientist)
d. 2024
New Zealand biochemist (1943–2024)
Jim Inhofe
d. 2024
American politician (1934–2024)
Maxine Singer
d. 2024
American biologist (1931–2024)
Jerzy Stuhr
d. 2024
Polish actor (1947–2024)
William Dannemeyer
d. 2019
American politician (1929–2019)
Ross Perot
d. 2019
American businessman and politician (1930–2019)
Fernando de la Rúa
d. 2019
President of Argentina from 1999 to 2001
Rip Torn
d. 2019
American actor (1931–2019)
Freddie Jones
d. 2019
English actor (1927–2019)
Christian Audigier
d. 2015
French fashion designer (1958–2015)
Saud bin Faisal Al Saud
d. 2015
Saudi royal and foreign minister (1940–2015)
David Azrieli
d. 2014
Israeli-Canadian entrepreneur (1922–2014)
Eileen Ford
d. 2014
American model agency executive (1922–2014)
John Spinks (musician)
d. 2014
British musician (1953–2014)
Markus Büchel
d. 2013
Prime Minister of Liechtenstein in 1993
Kiril of Varna
d. 2013
Earl Warren
d. 1974
Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969
On This Day in History
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2025
Earth completes its shortest recorded day due to a slight acceleration in rotation, with July 9 lasting approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds less than 24 hours.
Earth's rotation
2011
South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
South Sudan
2011
A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country.
Bersih 2.0 rally
2006
One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
S7 Airlines Flight 778
2006
Italy win their fourth World Cup title, defeating France 5–3 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time.
Italy national football team
2004
The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence is released by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, casting doubt on the rationale for the Iraq War.
Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence
2002
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
African Union
1999
Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
1999 Iranian student protests
1997
An explosion aboard a Brazilian airline TAM Fokker 100 launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into a 2,400 meters free fall.
LATAM Airlines Brasil
1995
The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
Navaly church bombing
1993
The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
Parliament of Canada
1986
The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
New Zealand Parliament
1982
Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
Pan Am Flight 759
1979
A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
Renault
1977
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
Military dictatorship of Chile
1962
Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear explosion at orbital altitudes.
Starfish Prime
1961
Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which is later suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
Greece
1958
A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami
1956
The 7.7 Mw Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
1956 Amorgos earthquake
1955
The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
Russell–Einstein Manifesto