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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated September 9, unearthing stories that resonate with genealogists and history enthusiasts alike.
From local happenings to global events, we'll uncover the stories that shaped the lives of our ancestors, providing valuable insights for those on a quest to discover their roots.
So, grab your magnifying glass and step into the past as we unravel the September 9 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1947 - September 9 –A moth lodged in a relay is found to be the cause of a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, logged as "First actual case of bug being found."
The incident involving the moth in the Harvard Mark II computer is a famous early example of a computer bug. The term "bug" had been used to describe technical glitches before this incident, but this particular case helped popularize the term in the context of computer science.
The computer in question, the Harvard Mark II, was a large electromechanical computer used for calculations and other scientific tasks. During a routine operation, the computer encountered a malfunction. Upon... Read MORE...
September 9, 1947
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1845 - September 9 – Potato blight breaks out in Ireland: beginning of the Great Famine.
"The Famine began quite mysteriously in September 1845 as leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black and curled, then rotted, seemingly the result of a fog that had wafted across the fields of Ireland. The cause was actually an airborne fungus (phytophthora infestans) originally transported in the holds of ships traveling from North America to England.
Winds from southern England carried the fungus to the countryside around Dublin. The blight spread throughout the fields as fungal spores... Read MORE...
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September 9, 1845
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Mobile, Alabama, USA
On September 9, 1839, Mobile, Alabama, experienced a catastrophic event known as the Great Fire. This devastating blaze erupted and rapidly swept through the city, consuming hundreds of buildings. The fire began in the evening, fueled by strong winds and the abundance of wooden structures, which were characteristic of the period. Efforts to contain the fire were hampered by limited firefighting resources, and the inferno quickly spread, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
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September 9, 1839
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1839 - September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
On September 9, 1839, Mobile, Alabama, experienced a catastrophic event known as the Great Fire. This devastating blaze erupted and rapidly swept through the city, consuming hundreds of buildings. The fire began in the evening, fueled by strong winds and the abundance of wooden structures, which were characteristic of the period. Efforts to contain the fire were hampered by limited firefighting resources, and the inferno quickly spread, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
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September 9, 1839
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Alamonde Beef
Take a round of beef, and stuff it with half pound pork, half pound butter, the soft of half a loaf of wheat bread, boil four eggs very hard, chop them up; and sweet marjoram, sage, parsley, summersavory, and one ounce cloves...Read MORE...
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Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Destruction By Fire of Cornelius Corson's Forty-Thousand Dollar Barn-An Extravagant Building In Ashes.
A very large and costly barn on the property, a quarter of a mile north of the depot at Mount Vernon, formerly owned and occupied by Cornelius Corson, who was one of the prosperous associates of Tweed was burned to the ground yesterday morning, with all it's contents, except a few articles of small value that were saved. The property is in charge of Edward Carroll, who occupies the dwelling ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - September 9, 1878
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1878 - Incendiaries At Work. A Costly Building Burned At Mount Vernon.
Destruction By Fire of Cornelius Corson's Forty-Thousand Dollar Barn-An Extravagant Building In Ashes.
A very large and costly barn on the property, a quarter of a mile north of the depot at Mount Vernon, formerly owned and occupied by Cornelius Corson, who was one of the prosperous associates of Tweed was burned to the ground yesterday morning, with all it's contents, except a few articles of small value that were saved. The property is in charge of Edward Carroll, who occupies the dwelling ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - September 9, 1878
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Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Roswell, N. M., Sept. 8 (AP) - A mid-air collision at 4000 feet between two Army training bombers cost the lives of six airmen Tuesday, two of them aviation cadets from the Roswell Army Flying School.
The Army said two ships of a three-plane formation on a practice bombing mission collided and crashed 10 miles northwest of Roswell. One ship burned after striking the ground.
The dead, as announced by the Army:
Lieut. DAVID P. GRIFFITHS, 24, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lieut. WILLIAM P. NEWBY, 22,... Read MORE...
Albuquerque Journal - Albuquerque, New Mexico - September 9, 1942
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1942 - SIX KILLED AS TWO TRAINING PLANES CRASH AT ROSWELL. BOMBERS COLLIDE WHILE ON PRACTICE MISSION, ARMY REPORTS. ONE SHIP BURNS.
Roswell, N. M., Sept. 8 (AP) - A mid-air collision at 4000 feet between two Army training bombers cost the lives of six airmen Tuesday, two of them aviation cadets from the Roswell Army Flying School.
The Army said two ships of a three-plane formation on a practice bombing mission collided and crashed 10 miles northwest of Roswell. One ship burned after striking the ground.
The dead, as announced by the Army:
Lieut. DAVID P. GRIFFITHS, 24, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lieut. WILLIAM P. NEWBY, 22,... Read MORE...
Albuquerque Journal - Albuquerque, New Mexico - September 9, 1942
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Madison, Indiana, USA
A farmer named John BONNETT met with a severe accident on the Canaan Road, about four o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mr. BONNETT was sitting in the rear of a wagon loaded with furniture, bedding, tinware and a stove.
When a short distance beyond Johnson & Clements' starch factory, the mules attached to the wagon frighted at the rattling and noise made by the stove and tinware going over a rough part of the road and started off rapidly. The jerk threw Mr. BONNETT out of the wagon, and he... Read MORE...
Madison Daily Courier - Madison, Indiana - September 9, 1872
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1872 - PROBABLY FATAL ACCIDENT
A farmer named John BONNETT met with a severe accident on the Canaan Road, about four o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mr. BONNETT was sitting in the rear of a wagon loaded with furniture, bedding, tinware and a stove.
When a short distance beyond Johnson & Clements' starch factory, the mules attached to the wagon frighted at the rattling and noise made by the stove and tinware going over a rough part of the road and started off rapidly. The jerk threw Mr. BONNETT out of the wagon, and he... Read MORE...
Madison Daily Courier - Madison, Indiana - September 9, 1872
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San Francisco, California, USA
San Francisco, Sept. 9. (AP) - A three alarm fire his Chinatown early Thursday.
The blaze broke out in the basement of a vacant three story building on California street just above Grant. It was controlled in a half hour. Fire Chief EDWARD P. WALSH estimated damage at $20,000.
Seventy five persons in an adjoining lodging house were evacuated. WALSH said the fire may have been started by an itinerate sleeping in the vacant building, formerly a hotel. Three firemen were hurt fighting the... Read MORE...
Reno Evening Gazette - Reno, Nevada - September 9, 1949
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1949 - CHINATOWN FIRE DAMAGE $20,000.
San Francisco, Sept. 9. (AP) - A three alarm fire his Chinatown early Thursday.
The blaze broke out in the basement of a vacant three story building on California street just above Grant. It was controlled in a half hour. Fire Chief EDWARD P. WALSH estimated damage at $20,000.
Seventy five persons in an adjoining lodging house were evacuated. WALSH said the fire may have been started by an itinerate sleeping in the vacant building, formerly a hotel. Three firemen were hurt fighting the... Read MORE...
Reno Evening Gazette - Reno, Nevada - September 9, 1949
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1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Let us avoid the habitual use of threats and make the children feel that obedience is expected as a matter of course. It is unwise and unkind to prolong the unhappiness caused by any little naughtiness by suggested a punishment which must of...Read MORE...
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
Syracuse, New York, USA
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 8 — In full view of several thousand persons who but an hour before had bared their heads and paid silent tribute to Edward F. (Pop) Geers, the veteran driver who was killed last week on a Southern track. Tommy Hinds, himself a veteran of Grand Circuit racing, was thrown to his death in a collision between sulkies on the race track at the New York State Fair grounds here late today.
Hat in hand, with his head bowed, Hinds had been one of the Grand Circuit, drivers here ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - September 9, 1924
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1924 - Hinds Killed in Race After Tribute to Geers; He Is Thrown From His Sulky at Syracuse Fair
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 8 — In full view of several thousand persons who but an hour before had bared their heads and paid silent tribute to Edward F. (Pop) Geers, the veteran driver who was killed last week on a Southern track. Tommy Hinds, himself a veteran of Grand Circuit racing, was thrown to his death in a collision between sulkies on the race track at the New York State Fair grounds here late today.
Hat in hand, with his head bowed, Hinds had been one of the Grand Circuit, drivers here ... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - September 9, 1924
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Brooklyn, New York, USA (Flatlands) (Flatbush) (Coney Island)
James Jones of No. 76 Oakland street, Brooklyn, was impaled yesterday afternoon on the shaft of an express wagon while he was riding on the running board of a Third avenue trolley car in Brooklyn.
The car had reached Twenty-fifth street and was going at high speed when the horse attached to the wagon turned out into the street. Jones could not climb into the car because of its crowded condition and he was stuck in the side by the shaft.
The stick broke three ribs and penetrated his side,... Read MORE...
Daily People - New York, New York - September 9, 1904
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1904 - IMPALED ON WAGON SHAFT.
James Jones of No. 76 Oakland street, Brooklyn, was impaled yesterday afternoon on the shaft of an express wagon while he was riding on the running board of a Third avenue trolley car in Brooklyn.
The car had reached Twenty-fifth street and was going at high speed when the horse attached to the wagon turned out into the street. Jones could not climb into the car because of its crowded condition and he was stuck in the side by the shaft.
The stick broke three ribs and penetrated his side,... Read MORE...
Daily People - New York, New York - September 9, 1904
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1776 Congress renames the nation "United States of America" (September 9)
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the "United States" of America. This replaced the term "United Colonies," which had been in general use. In the Congressional declaration dated September 9, 1776, the delegates wrote, "That in all continental commissions, and other instruments, where, heretofore, the words 'United Colonies' have been used, the stile be altered for the future to the "United States."...
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1944 September 9 - The "Great Atlantic Hurricane" ravaged the east coast.
The storm killed 22 persons and caused 63 million dollars damage in the Chesapeake Bay area, then besieged New England killing 390 persons and causing another 100 million dollars damage.
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September 9, 1944
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1930 ALBION, R. I. - Edward W. Theinert, 71, Socialist gubernatorial candidate in 1896, 1911, 1914, and 1924, dies.
Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
September 9, 1930
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On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the "United States" of America. This replaced the term "United Colonies," which had been in general use. In the Congressional declaration dated September 9, 1776, the delegates wrote, "That in all continental commissions, and other instruments, where, heretofore, the words 'United Colonies' have been used, the stile be altered for the future to the "United States."...
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September 9, 1776
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1944 September 9 - The "Great Atlantic Hurricane" ravaged the east coast.
The storm killed 22 persons and caused 63 million dollars damage in the Chesapeake Bay area, then besieged New England killing 390 persons and causing another 100 million dollars damage.
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September 9, 1944
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1930 ALBION, R. I. - Edward W. Theinert, 71, Socialist gubernatorial candidate in 1896, 1911, 1914, and 1924, dies.
Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
September 9, 1930
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1877 Printers are upstanding citizens?
There are only three printers confined in Auburn, New York, prison. Among the convicts can be found twenty-seven clergymen, forty-two lawyers and thirteen doctors.
The Independent Record
Helena, Montana
September 9, 1877
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1904 BOY CRUSHED UNDER CAR.
Pinioned under the forward truck of a trolley car in Wyckoff avenue, near Temple avenue, Brooklyn, last night, George Schroeder, eight years old of No. 406 Ralph street, pluckily directed the efforts of men who worked for nearly an hour to extricate him. More than a score of men took hold of the car and lifted it from the tracks. The lad was badly cut and bruised and suffered from internal injuries. Dr. Tesiffer of the German Hospital, said his condition was precarious.
Daily People
New York, New York
September 9, 1904
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1908 THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Dynamite That Was Placed on a Steam Pipe Became Overheated.
AGAWAM, Mass., Sept. 8. - Three men were killed and six others injured by the explosion of twenty pounds of dynamite on Provin Mountain, near the place where a contracting company is building a distributing reservoir in connection with the Springfield water supply system.
The dead are Richard Plater, Antonio Mitta, and Joseph Bello, all laborers. Plater was a negro and the others were Italians. Fred Lovett, another laborer, received injuries which are expected to result in his...
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New York, New York
September 9, 1908
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There are only three printers confined in Auburn, New York, prison. Among the convicts can be found twenty-seven clergymen, forty-two lawyers and thirteen doctors.
The Independent Record
Helena, Montana
September 9, 1877
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1904 BOY CRUSHED UNDER CAR.
Pinioned under the forward truck of a trolley car in Wyckoff avenue, near Temple avenue, Brooklyn, last night, George Schroeder, eight years old of No. 406 Ralph street, pluckily directed the efforts of men who worked for nearly an hour to extricate him. More than a score of men took hold of the car and lifted it from the tracks. The lad was badly cut and bruised and suffered from internal injuries. Dr. Tesiffer of the German Hospital, said his condition was precarious.
Daily People
New York, New York
September 9, 1904
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1908 THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Dynamite That Was Placed on a Steam Pipe Became Overheated.
AGAWAM, Mass., Sept. 8. - Three men were killed and six others injured by the explosion of twenty pounds of dynamite on Provin Mountain, near the place where a contracting company is building a distributing reservoir in connection with the Springfield water supply system.
The dead are Richard Plater, Antonio Mitta, and Joseph Bello, all laborers. Plater was a negro and the others were Italians. Fred Lovett, another laborer, received injuries which are expected to result in his...
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New York, New York
September 9, 1908
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1840 A Canadian Heroine Dead
At Lotbiniere, on 27th of July, at the age of 100 years and several months, Charlotte Oullet, of the parish of St Anne de la Pocatiere. This lady was one of a member of other young girls of St Ann, who put on men's apparel and shouldered the musket to drive out a detachment of English regulars who were amusing themselves by setting fir to the barns and dwellings of the inhabitants of St Anne during the siege of Quebec in 1759.
New Hampshire Sentinel
New Hampshire
September 9, 1840
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At Lotbiniere, on 27th of July, at the age of 100 years and several months, Charlotte Oullet, of the parish of St Anne de la Pocatiere. This lady was one of a member of other young girls of St Ann, who put on men's apparel and shouldered the musket to drive out a detachment of English regulars who were amusing themselves by setting fir to the barns and dwellings of the inhabitants of St Anne during the siege of Quebec in 1759.
New Hampshire Sentinel
New Hampshire
September 9, 1840
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America - Did you know?
Los Angeles is not as “tall” as other large cities and sprawls for miles. One reason is that before 1957, there was a law against any building having more than 13 stories. They were afraid of earthquakes. City Hall, built in 1927, was the lone...Read MORE...legendsofamerica.com
Quebec - Did you know?
The Assomption (or arrow) sash is a symbolic piece of clothing central to the culture of the French-speaking population of North America. The item was widely worn for almost a century, from the end of the 18th to the end of the 19th century, before...Read MORE...Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America www.ameriquefrancaise.org
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