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July 9 in history

By admin 25 Jul 2018


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1401: Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000.

1850: American President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk.

1746: First French landing in India at Pondicherry.

1875: The Bombay Stock Exchange established, with its construction under the shade of a large banyan tree.

1893: Daniel Williams performs first successful open heart surgery without anesthesia.

1938: Bollywood Actor Sanjeev Kumar is born.

1947: Queen Elizabeth got engaged to Lt. Philip Mountbatten.

1956: Hollywood actor Tom Hanks is born.

1969: Canada makes English and French official languages.

1969: India declares Royal Bengal Tiger as its national animal.

1986: New Zealand legalizes homosexuality.


JULY 8

1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sets sail for India, becoming the first white man to reach India by sea.

1777: Vermont becomes the first US state to abolish slavery by introducing new constitution.

1852: The Great Fire of Montreal destroys 11,000 houses.

1858: The Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 finally ends, with Lord Canning officially declaring that peace had been established.

1892: The Great Fire of St John’s destroys 60 percent of the city, leaving 10,000 people homeless.

1965: Bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 in British Columbia kills all 52 people on board.

1974: Pierre Trudeau regains majority, with the Liberals winning 141 of 264 seats, followed by Conservatives with 95 seats, NDP 16, Social Credit 11 and others 1.

2003: British Columbia, after Ontario, allows same-sex marriages.

2013: Toronto suffers its worst-ever rainstorm that dumped a record 126 mm of rain, causing flooding, power outages, traffic chaos and $850 million in damages.


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