This day in History - July 9

386 Historic Events for July 9
1863 Event Union troops enter Port Hudson
1864 Birth Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer
1864 Event Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400
1868 Event 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
1869 Event Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
1872 Event Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
1875 Death Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
1876 Event Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
1877 Event 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1878 Event An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1878 Birth H V Kaltenborn, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Who Said That?)
1879 Birth Ottorino Respighi, Bologna Italy, composer (Pines of Rome)
1879 Birth Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Strgkh
1882 Birth Richard Hageman, Dutch/US pianist/composer/conductor (Caponsacchi)
1883 Death Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67
1887 Birth Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
1891 Event Irene Coit is 1st woman admitted to Yale University
1893 Birth George Geary, cricketer (sturdy pace bowler for England 1924-34)
1893 Event Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1893 Death William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
1895 Birth Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast)
1898 Birth Marcel Delannoy, composer
1898 Birth Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist (Mary, Revolt in Congo)
1900 Birth Robert Oboussier, composer
1900 Event Australia accepts its constitution