Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 9

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 * 337 – After disposing of all relatives who possibly held a claim to the throne, Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans became Roman co-emperors.
 * 1320 – Byzantine forces defeated Achaean troops at the Battle of Saint George, taking control of the Arcadia region of Greece.
 * 1493 – Ottoman wars in Europe: A large Croatian army intercepted Ottoman forces returning to the Sanjak of Bosnia, but was defeated.
 * 1739 – The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina.
 * 1791 – The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it Washington, D.C., in honor of the first president.
 * 1892 – At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite to be discovered by visual observation.
 * 1939 – World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army troops began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland.
 * 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, destroying both aeroplanes and killing all 83 occupants of both aircraft.
 * 1999 – The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
 * 2001 - Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11th attacks in the United States.
 * 2010 – A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded and "shot a fireball more than 1000 ft in the air", killing eight people.


 * Born/died this day: | Eleanor de' Medici |d|1611|Joseph Leidy |b|1823| Augustin Pyramus de Candolle |d|1841| Mary Hunter Austin |b|1868| Frank Chance |b|1877| Louise Lehzen |d|1870| Colonel Sanders |b|1890|  Gan Eng Seng |d|1899| Chaim Topol |b|1935| Michelle Williams |b|1980 Jacques Lacan |d|1981 Neil Davis |d|1985| Edward Teller |d|2003