September 9 is the 253rd day of the year.
National Hug Your Boss Day
National “I Love Food” Day!
National Wiener Schnitzel Day A Wiener Schnitzel is a veal cutlet coated in bread and then pan-fried. This renowned dish is considered an Austrian delicacy in its beautiful capital, Vienna.
Teddy Bear Day: From Holiday Insights
During the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt was in office as President of the United States. He was a hunter. While hunting in Mississippi in 1902, he refused to shoot a small bear. The Washington Post picked up on this story, and made a cartoon of the event. Toy store owners, Morris and Rose Michtom, wrote to President Roosevelt for permission to call their stuffed animals “Teddy Bears”. Teddy bears became wildly popular. Their company went on to become the Ideal Toy Company, one of the largest toy companies in the world.
1754 William Bligh was born. He became captain of the English ship, Bounty, and while sailing to Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees, the most famous mutiny in history took place.
On this date in 1776 the Continental Congress officially named its new union of sovereign states the United States.
In 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, was named after President George Washington.
Birthday of Count Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828), Russian novelist famous for “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”
The Compromise of 1850 provisions included:
- Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico, as well as its claims north of the Missouri Compromise Line. It retained the Texas Panhandle and the federal government took over the state’s public debt.
- California was admitted as a free state with its current boundaries.
- The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under the principle of popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders. In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture and their settlers were uninterested in slavery.
- The slave trade (but not slavery altogether) was banned in the District of Columbia.
- A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted.
California Admission Day, on September 9, 1850 becoming the thirty-first state
- Capital: Sacramento
- Nickname: Golden State
- Bird: California Valley Quail
- Flower: Golden poppy
- Tree: California Redwood
- Motto: Eureka! I Have Found It
See our page California for more interesting facts and trivia about California.
1890 Harland Sanders was born near Henryville, Indiana. Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant chain.
September 10, 1898: 
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria was stabbed to death by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni at Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died. French artist who documented Parisian night life in the 1890s with his insightful posters. For examples of his art, see Wikiart.
From Today in Science
NBC
In 1926, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), shortly after the acquistion (May 1926) of the radio network operations of AT&T, which had decided to withdraw from radio. The new NBC network was publicized with full-page ads in many publications. The new network’s debut broadcast was transmitted on 15 Nov 1926. The network assets bought from AT&T with stations in major cities of several states became the NBC-Red network (a designation reflecting its origin when the inter-city circuit charts were marked with telephone links between network radio stations in red pencil. The smaller existing network of the buyer became NBC-Blue.
1995 Orville Redenbacher died. Founder of gourmet popcorn company.