12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for September 9, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1513 – The Battle of Flodden sees Scotland defeated and King James IV killed.
- 1543 – Mary, Queen of Scots is crowned at Stirling Castle.
- 1739 – The Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in colonial British North America, begins near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts the name “United States of America.”
- 1791 – Commissioners name the federal city “Washington” and the district “Columbia.”
- 1850 – California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.
- 1892 – E. E. Barnard discovers Jupiter’s moon Amalthea.
- 1942 – A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs in Oregon in the Lookout Air Raid.
- 1948 – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is proclaimed in the North.
- 1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1971 – The Attica Prison uprising begins in New York.
- 2015 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British monarch.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1960 – Hugh Grant, film actor (Notting Hill, Paddington 2) (65).
- 1966 – Adam Sandler, actor-comedian (SNL; Happy Gilmore) (59).
- 1967 – Akshay Kumar, Bollywood actor-producer (58).
- 1971 – Eric Stonestreet, Emmy-winning actor (Modern Family) (54).
- 1975 – Michael Bublé, Grammy-winning singer (50).
- 1985 – Luka Modrić, Ballon d’Or–winning footballer (40).
- 1991 – Kelsey Asbille, actress (Yellowstone) (34).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1087 – William the Conqueror, first Norman king of England (c.59).
- 1513 – James IV, king of Scotland, slain at Flodden (40).
- 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and poster artist (36).
- 1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader and PRC founder (82).
- 1996 – Bill Monroe, “Father of Bluegrass” music (84).
- 2003 – Edward Teller, physicist known as the hydrogen bomb (95).
- 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan resistance leader (“Lion of Panjshir”) (48).
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