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International
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Day
Joan Marie Aylward, Minister of Health and
Community Services, today recognized Thursday,
September 9, as International Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome Day in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The minister said: "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
is a community problem which is completely
preventable so we have to find ways to work
together as a community to help individuals,
families, communities and society as a whole."
Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a medical diagnosis
that describes a pattern of physical and
behavioural abnormalities that can affect
a child born to a mother who drinks alcohol
during her pregnancy. FAS is a life-long
condition. A child with FAS becomes an adult
with FAS.
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β Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes
ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions
of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle
of the Teutoburg Forest.
337 β Constantine II, Constantius II, and
Constans I succeed their father Constantine
I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided
between the three Augusti.
1000 β Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 β Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the
Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg
Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 β Battle of Krbava field, a decisive
defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against
the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
1513 β James IV of Scotland is defeated
and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field,
ending Scotland's involvement in the War
of the League of Cambrai.
1543 β Mary Stuart, at nine months old,
is crowned "Queen of Scots" in
the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1561 β The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy
at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile
French Catholics and Protestants.
1739 β Stono Rebellion, the largest slave
uprising in Britain's mainland North American
colonies prior to the American Revolution,
erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 β The Continental Congress officially
names its new union of sovereign states
the United States.
1791 β Washington, D.C., the capitol of
the United States, is named after President
George Washington.
1801 β Alexander I of Russia confirms the
privileges of Baltic provinces.
1839 β John Herschel takes the first glass
plate photograph.
1850 β California is admitted as the thirty-first
U.S. state.
1850 β 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 β Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol
comes to an end when Russian forces abandon
the city.
1863 β American Civil War: The Union Army
enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 β The Berne Convention for the Protection
of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1914 β World War I: The creation of the
Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade,
the first fully mechanized unit in the British
Army.
1922 β The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922
effectively ends with Turkish victory over
the Greeks in Smyrna.
1923 β Mustafa Kemal AtatΓΌrk, the founder
of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican
People's Party.
1924 β Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai,
Hawaii.
1926 β The U.S. National Broadcasting Company
is formed.
1939 β World War II: The Battle of Hel begins,
the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army
resistance during the German invasion of
Poland.
1939 β Burmese national hero U Ottama dies
in prison after a hunger strike to protest
Britain's colonial government.
1940 β George Stibitz pioneers the first
remote operation of a computer.
1942 β World War II: A Japanese floatplane
drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
1943 β World War II: The Allies land at
Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 β World War II: The Fatherland Front
takes power in Bulgaria through a military
coup in the capital and armed rebellion
in the country. A new pro-Soviet government
is established.
1945 β Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally
surrenders to China.
1947 β First actual case of a computer bug
being found: a moth lodges in a relay of
a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 β Kim Il-sung declares the establishment
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1956 β Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan
Show for the first time.
1965 β The United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development is established.
1965 β Hurricane Betsy makes its second
landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving
76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10β12 billion
in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the
first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted
damages.
1966 β The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle
Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 β Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9
collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and
crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
1969 β In Canada, the Official Languages
Act comes into force, making the French
language equal to the English language throughout
the Federal government.
1970 β A British airliner is hijacked by
the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in
Jordan.
1971 β The four-day Attica Prison riot begins,
which eventually results in 39 dead, most
killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1972 β In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National
Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration
and mapping team discovers a link between
the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems,
making it the longest known cave passageway
in the world.
1990 β 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre
of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan
Army in the eastern Batticaloa District
of Sri Lanka.
1991 β Tajikstan gains independence from
the Soviet Union.
1993 β The Palestine Liberation Organization
officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate
state.
1995 β The debut of the Sony Playstation.
1999 β The beginning of the Y2K bug, the
debut of the Dreamcast, and the 1999 MTV
Video Music Awards.
2001 β Ahmed 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 β PΓ€rnu methanol tragedy occurs in
PΓ€rnu County, Estonia.
2001 β At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix
billenium is reached, marking the beginning
of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
2004 β 2004 Australian embassy bombing:
A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy
in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2009 β At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai
Metro, the first urban train network in
the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
2010 β A natural gas pipeline explosion
in San Bruno, California, creates a "wall
of fire" more than 1,000 feet (300
m) high.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
CiarΓ‘n of Clonmacnoise
Peter Claver
Synaxis of Ss. Joachim and Anna, an Afterfeast.
(Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches)
September 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku (Japan)
Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial
Violence (Slovakia)
Festivity of Our Lady of Arantzazu (OΓ±ati)
Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates
the proclamation of Democratic Peopleβs
Republic of Korea in 1948.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991.
Izmir Independence Day, celebrates Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk's capture of Izmir, Turkey,
from Greece in 1922. (Turkey)
Statehood Day (California)
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