July 9<\/p>\n
1755 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, the British Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 General George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
1795 \u2013 Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.<\/p>\n
1811 \u2013 Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013 President Zachary Taylor dies of acute gastroenteritis, called Cholera Morbus<\/em> at the time, after eating raw fruit and iced milk on the 4th of July while attending holiday celebrations at the Washington Monument. He is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 The Siege of Port Hudson ends, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi River during the Civil War.<\/p>\n 1868 \u2013 The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified<\/p>\n 1875 \u2013 Due to the harsh treatment by the rulers of Bosnia, Christian Serbians in Herzegovina rise up against moslem Ottoman rule in the Balkans.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 At Provident Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Daniel Williams performs the first successful open heart surgery in the U.S on a patient who had been attacked and suffered a stab wound in the chest.<\/p>\n 1896 \u2013 William Jennings Bryan delivers a speech advocating bimetallism (Gold and<\/em><\/strong> Silver as legal specie) at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 In Nashville, Tennessee, 2 trains operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway collide head on, killing 101 people and injuring 171 more, the deadliest rail accident in U.S. history.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, setting a new world record for the distance.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 The state of S\u00e3o Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Allied forces begin the invasion of Sicily<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 American forces complete the invasion of Saipan<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a tsunami wave reaching 1,722 ft up the rim of Lituya Bay, killing 5 people.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 During Operation Fishbowl<\/em> on Johnston Island in the Pacific, a Thor rocket with the 1.4 megaton thermonuclear device Starfish Prime<\/em> on board, is launched and detonated at an altitude of 250 miles to test the effects of a nuclear explosion at orbital altitudes.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Pan Am Flight 759, a Boeing 727, crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 passengers and crew\u00a0 on board and 8 others on the ground.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Ross Perot, Rip Torn, and Freddie Jones apparently confirm that ‘Celebrity Deaths Come in Threes’ as they all pass away on the same day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 9 1755 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, the British Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh. 1776 \u2013 General George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56809"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94181,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56809\/revisions\/94181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}