A birthday on the globe
9 July on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 9 July, the English Wikipedia lists 74 events and 210 births. 43 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; five more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 9 July
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in July 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 9 July the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 22.4° north. In London, the day lasts about 16 hours 25 minutes.
Beyond 68° north the Sun no longer sets; beyond 68° south it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Britain & Ireland · All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
1877
The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
On the map: All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish, Romanian and Chinese.
Britain & Ireland · Buckingham Palace
1982
A British man named Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom when she was asleep.
On the map: Buckingham Palace.
Europe · Toulouse
455
The elderly noble Avitus is proclaimed Roman emperor by Gothic king Theoderic II in Toulouse.
On the map: Toulouse.
Europe · Charles Bridge
1357
Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
On the map: Charles Bridge.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish, Romanian and Chinese.
Europe · Versailles, Yvelines
1789
In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
On the map: Versailles, Yvelines.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Asia · Constantinople
381
The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
On the map: Constantinople.
Latin America · Argentine Declaration of Independence
1816
Argentina declares independence from Spain.
On the map: the coordinates Wikidata gives for the article “Argentine Declaration of Independence”.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Latin America · Acto de Chacarillas
1977
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
On the map: the coordinates Wikidata gives for the article “Acto de Chacarillas”.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
North America · Chicago Coliseum
1896
William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
On the map: Chicago Coliseum.
North America · Ferus Gallery
1962
In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
On the map: Ferus Gallery.
9 July
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Chinese and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Chinese · Arena Cidade da Copa
2014
In the semi-final against Brazil at the 20th FIFA World Cup, the German footballer Miroslav Klose scores in the 23rd minute, thereby becoming the World Cup's all-time top scorer with 16 goals. He is also the only player in history to appear and score in the semi-finals of four consecutive World Cups.
On the map: Arena Cidade da Copa.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Chinese.
9 July
Born on 9 July#
The English Wikipedia lists 210 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 59 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 9 July
1956
Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Place of birth: Concord.
Born on 9 July
1894
Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Place of birth: Kronstadt.
Born on 9 July
1964
Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
Place of birth: San Francisco.
Born on 9 July
1926
Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Place of birth: Chicago.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1937
David Hockney, English painter and photographer (died 2026)
Born in Britain and Ireland
1764
Ann Ward, English author and poet (died 1823)
Place of birth: Holborn.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1901
Barbara Cartland, English author (died 2000)
Place of birth: Edgbaston.
9 July
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
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All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
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Below: 9 July through the years.
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Everything Wikipedia lists for 9 July
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 26 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 118
Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Hadrian - 381
The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
Asia · ConstantinopleWikipedia: First Council of Constantinople - 455
The elderly noble Avitus is proclaimed Roman emperor by Gothic king Theoderic II in Toulouse.
Europe · ToulouseWikipedia: Toulouse - 491
Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
Europe · RavennaWikipedia: Odoacer - 551
A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affects the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.
Asia · 551 Beirut earthquakeWikipedia: 551 Beirut earthquake - 660
Silla forces under general Kim Yu-sin defeat the army of Baekje at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
Asia · NonsanWikipedia: Battle of Hwangsanbeol - 869
The 8.4–9.0 Mw Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.
Oceans · 869 Jōgan earthquakeWikipedia: 869 Jōgan earthquake - 969
The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt.
Africa · FustatWikipedia: Fatimid conquest of Egypt - 1357
Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
Europe · Charles BridgeWikipedia: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor - 1386
The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Duchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
Europe · Battle of SempachWikipedia: Battle of Sempach - 1401
Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Timur - 1540
King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Henry VIII - 1572
Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs, in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
Europe · GorinchemWikipedia: Martyrs of Gorkum - 1609
Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Bohemia - 1640
The Virginia Governor's Council made John Punch the first legally recognized slave in England's North American colonies.
North America · Thirteen ColoniesWikipedia: Virginia Governor's Council - 1701
A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
Europe · Battle of CarpiWikipedia: Battle of Carpi - 1735
Safavid Iran captures Ganja from the Ottoman Empire after defeating them in the battle of Yeghevārd.
Asia · YeghvardWikipedia: Battle of Yeghevārd - 1745
French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
Europe · Battle of MelleWikipedia: Battle of Melle - 1755
The 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.
North America · Battle of the MonongahelaWikipedia: Battle of the Monongahela - 1762
Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Catherine the Great - 1763
The Mozart family grand tour of Europe begins, lifting the profile of son Wolfgang Amadeus.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Mozart family grand tour - 1776
George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
North America · United States Declaration of IndependenceWikipedia: United States Declaration of Independence - 1789
In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
Europe · Versailles, YvelinesWikipedia: Versailles, Yvelines - 1790
The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
Europe · Battle of SvensksundWikipedia: Battle of Svensksund - 1793
The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Act Against Slavery - 1795
Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.
no place on the mapWikipedia: American Revolution - 1807
The second Treaty of Tilsit is signed between France and Prussia, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
Europe · Treaties of TilsitWikipedia: Treaties of Tilsit - 1810
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Napoleon - 1811
Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.
North America · Sacajawea State ParkWikipedia: Washington - 1815
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - 1816
Argentina declares independence from Spain.
Latin America · Argentine Declaration of IndependenceWikipedia: Argentine Declaration of Independence - 1821
Four hundred and seventy prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
Asia · CyprusWikipedia: Greek War of Independence - 1850
Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
Asia · TabrizWikipedia: Báb - 1850
U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Zachary Taylor - 1863
American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends in a Union victory and, along with the fall of Vicksburg five days earlier, gives the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.
North America · Siege of Port HudsonWikipedia: American Civil War - 1868
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - 1875
The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
Asia · Ottoman EmpireWikipedia: Herzegovina uprising - 1877
The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
Britain & Ireland · All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet ClubWikipedia: 1877 Wimbledon Championship - 1893
Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Daniel Hale Williams - 1896
William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
North America · Chicago ColiseumWikipedia: Cross of Gold speech - 1900
The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Federation of Australia - 1900
The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
Asia · TaiyuanWikipedia: Taiyuan massacre - 1918
In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
North America · Nashville, TennesseeWikipedia: Great Train Wreck of 1918 - 1922
Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Johnny Weissmuller - 1926
Chiang Kai-shek accepts the post of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, marking the beginning of the Northern Expedition to unite China under the rule of the Nationalist government.
Asia · Republic of ChinaWikipedia: Northern Expedition - 1932
The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Constitutionalist Revolution - 1937
The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
North America · 1937 Fox vault fireWikipedia: 1937 Fox vault fire - 1943
World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to the downfall of Mussolini and forcing Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
Europe · Battle of KurskWikipedia: Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy - 1944
World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government.
Oceania · Battle of SaipanWikipedia: Battle of Saipan - 1944
World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali–Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
Europe · Battle of Tali–IhantalaWikipedia: Continuation War - 1955
The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Russell–Einstein Manifesto - 1956
The 7.7 Mw Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
Europe · 1956 Amorgos earthquakeWikipedia: 1956 Amorgos earthquake - 1958
A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
North America · 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunamiWikipedia: 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami - 1961
Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which is later suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
Europe · GreeceWikipedia: Greek junta - 1962
In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
North America · Ferus GalleryWikipedia: Campbell's Soup Cans - 1962
Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear explosion at orbital altitudes.
Oceans · Starfish PrimeWikipedia: Starfish Prime - 1977
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
Latin America · Acto de ChacarillasWikipedia: Acto de Chacarillas - 1979
A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Renault - 1981
Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong, which featured the debut of Mario, one of the most famous characters in video-game history.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Nintendo - 1982
A British man named Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom when she was asleep.
Britain & Ireland · Buckingham PalaceWikipedia: Michael Fagan - 1982
Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
North America · Pan Am Flight 759Wikipedia: Pan Am Flight 759 - 1986
The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 - 1993
The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
no place on the mapWikipedia: 1982 Northwest Territories division plebiscite - 1995
The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
Asia · Navaly church bombingWikipedia: Navaly church bombing - 1997
An explosion aboard a Brazilian airline TAM Fokker 100 launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into a 2,400 meters free fall.
Latin America · TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 283Wikipedia: LATAM Airlines Brasil - 1999
Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
Asia · University of TehranWikipedia: 1999 Iranian student protests - 2002
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
no place on the mapWikipedia: African Union - 2004
The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence is released by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, casting doubt on the rationale for the Iraq War.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence - 2006
Italy win their fourth World Cup title, defeating France 5–3 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time.
Europe · Berlin Olympic StadiumWikipedia: 2006 FIFA World Cup final - 2006
One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
Asia · S7 Airlines Flight 778Wikipedia: S7 Airlines Flight 778 - 2008
Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran - 2011
A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country.
Asia · Kuala LumpurWikipedia: Bersih 2.0 rally - 2011
South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
no place on the mapWikipedia: South Sudan - 2025
Earth completes its shortest recorded day due to a slight acceleration in rotation, with July 9 lasting approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds less than 24 hours.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Earth's rotation
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Chinese and were translated for this page.
- 2014
In the semi-final against Brazil at the 20th FIFA World Cup, the German footballer Miroslav Klose scores in the 23rd minute, thereby becoming the World Cup's all-time top scorer with 16 goals. He is also the only player in history to appear and score in the semi-finals of four consecutive World Cups.
Latin America · Arena Cidade da CopaTranslated from the list on Wikipedia in ChineseWikipedia: 2014年国际足联世界杯
Who was born on 9 July
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 210 are shown.
- 1956
Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
ConcordWikipedia: Tom Hanks - 1950
Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine
YenakiieveWikipedia: Viktor Yanukovych - 1894
Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
KronstadtWikipedia: Pyotr Kapitsa - 1932
Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2021)
St. Luke's HospitalWikipedia: Donald Rumsfeld - 1964
Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
San FranciscoWikipedia: Courtney Love - 1916
Edward Heath, English colonel and politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1970-74 (died 2005)
BroadstairsWikipedia: Edward Heath - 1929
Hassan II of Morocco (died 1999)
RabatWikipedia: Hassan II - 1578
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1637)
- 1926
Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
ChicagoWikipedia: Ben Roy Mottelson - 1985
Ashley Young, English footballer
StevenageWikipedia: Ashley Young - 1858
Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (died 1942)
MindenWikipedia: Franz Boas - 1834
Jan Neruda, Czech journalist and poet (died 1891)
PragueWikipedia: Jan Neruda - 1937
David Hockney, English painter and photographer (died 2026)
- 1947
O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor (died 2024)
San FranciscoWikipedia: O. J. Simpson - 1764
Ann Ward, English author and poet (died 1823)
HolbornWikipedia: Ann Radcliffe - 1901
Barbara Cartland, English author (died 2000)
EdgbastonWikipedia: Barbara Cartland - 1911
John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and author (died 2008)
- 1955
Lindsey Graham, American lawyer and politician (died 2026)
CentralWikipedia: Lindsey Graham - 1933
Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (died 2015)
WillesdenWikipedia: Oliver Sacks - 1964
Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and coach (died 2023)
CremonaWikipedia: Gianluca Vialli - 1935
Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer and activist (died 2009)
San Miguel de TucumánWikipedia: Mercedes Sosa - 1990
Rafael, Brazilian footballer
PetrópolisWikipedia: Rafael - 1951
Chris Cooper, American actor
Kansas CityWikipedia: Chris Cooper - 1975
Jack White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
DetroitWikipedia: Jack White - 1946
Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (died 1980)
ForfarWikipedia: Bon Scott - 1945
Dean Koontz, American author and screenwriter
EverettWikipedia: Dean Koontz - 1775
Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (died 1818)
- 1914
Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany (died 1999)
SchönebergWikipedia: Willi Stoph - 1938
Brian Dennehy, American actor (died 2020)
BridgeportWikipedia: Brian Dennehy - 1968
Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer and manager
- 1879
Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (died 1936)
BolognaWikipedia: Ottorino Respighi - 1925
Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1964)
BengaluruWikipedia: Guru Dutt - 1957
Kelly McGillis, American actress
Newport BeachWikipedia: Kelly McGillis - 1982
Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
ToyohashiWikipedia: Sakon Yamamoto - 1991
Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
GarlandWikipedia: Mitchel Musso - 1819
Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine (died 1867)
SpencerWikipedia: Elias Howe - 1971
Marc Andreessen, American software developer, co-founded Netscape
Cedar FallsWikipedia: Marc Andreessen - 1654
Emperor Reigen of Japan (died 1732)
- 1935
Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Finance (died 2005)
HeerenveenWikipedia: Wim Duisenberg - 1942
Richard Roundtree, American actor (died 2023)
New RochelleWikipedia: Richard Roundtree - 1959
Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler and actor
TrentonWikipedia: Kevin Nash - 1966
Pamela Adlon, American actress and voice artist
AlbanyWikipedia: Pamela Adlon - 1955
Jimmy Smits, American actor and producer
BrooklynWikipedia: Jimmy Smits - 1986
Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
14th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Sébastien Bassong - 1809
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (died 1885)
- 1879
Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934)
OliveiraWikipedia: Carlos Chagas - 1928
Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist (died 2023)
Val de Santo DomingoWikipedia: Federico Bahamontes - 1975
Shelton Benjamin, American wrestler
OrangeburgWikipedia: Shelton Benjamin - 1993
DeAndre Yedlin, American footballer
SeattleWikipedia: DeAndre Yedlin - 1249
Emperor Kameyama of Japan (died 1305)
- 1947
Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (died 2008)
- 1976
Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer
ChicagoWikipedia: Fred Savage - 1955
Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager
LiverpoolWikipedia: Steve Coppell - 2003
Conor Bradley, Northern Irish footballer
CastledergWikipedia: Conor Bradley - 1950
Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
- 1999
Claire Corlett, American voice actress
- 1981
Lee Chun-soo, South Korean footballer
IncheonWikipedia: Lee Chun-soo - 1987
Rebecca Sugar, American animator, composer, and screenwriter
Silver SpringWikipedia: Rebecca Sugar - 1511
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (died 1571)
Lauenburg/ElbeWikipedia: Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg - 1526
Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (died 1545)
What is celebrated on 9 July
- Arbor Day (Cambodia)
- Christian Feast Day: Amandina of Schakkebroek (one of Martyrs of Southern Hunan)
- Christian Feast Day: Blessed Marija Petković
- Christian Feast Day: Everilda
- Christian Feast Day: Blessed Giovanna Scopelli
- Christian Feast Day: Gregorio Grassi (one of Martyrs of Shanxi)
- Christian Feast Day: Martyr Saints of China
- Christian Feast Day: Martyrs of Gorkum
- Christian Feast Day: Our Lady of Itatí
- Christian Feast Day: Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation
- Christian Feast Day: Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
- Christian Feast Day: Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
- Christian Feast Day: Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)
- Christian Feast Day: Veronica Giuliani
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Where the events come from
Each edition of this page uses the day’s list from Wikipedia in its own language: Romanian, English, Spanish, Chinese. The lists are written by volunteers and differ from one edition to the next; the text of each event is Wikipedia’s, with a link to the article. A row that appears twice in a list is shown once. The lists have not been checked event by event: they are Wikipedia’s, mistakes included.
For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
How an event gets onto the map
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Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.