At this time is Tuesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2025. There are 113 days left within the 12 months.
At this time in historical past:
On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized management of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility close to Buffalo, New York, taking 42 employees members hostage and demanding enhancements to inmate remedy and dwelling situations.
Additionally on this date:
In 1776, the second Continental Congress formally adopted the identify “United States of America,” changing the “United Colonies of North America.”
In 1850, California was admitted because the thirty first U.S. state.
In 1919, about 1,100 members of Boston’s 1,500-member police pressure went on strike. The strike was damaged by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge with alternative officers.
In 1948, the Folks’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was declared.
In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the primary civil rights invoice to cross Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily involved with defending voting rights. It additionally established a Civil Rights Division within the U.S. Division of Justice.
In 2022, King Charles III gave his first speech to Britain as its new monarch, vowing to hold on the “lifelong service” of his mom Queen Elizabeth II, who died a day earlier.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Singer Dee Dee Sharp is 80.
- Former NFL quarterback Joe Theismann is 76.
- Actor Angela Cartwright is 73.
- Musician-producer Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) is 73.
- Actor Hugh Grant is 65.
- Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., is 62.
- Actor Constance Marie is 60.
- Actor Adam Sandler is 59.
- Actor Julia Sawalha (suh-WAHL’-hah) is 57.
- Mannequin Rachel Hunter is 56.
- Actor Eric Stonestreet is 54.
- Actor Henry Thomas is 54.
- Actor Goran Visnjic (VEEZ’-nihch) is 53.
- Pop-jazz singer Michael Bublé (boo-BLAY’) is 50.
- Actor Michelle Williams is 45.
- Actor Zoe Kazan is 42.
- Soccer participant Luka Modrić is 40.
- Nation singer-songwriter Hunter Hayes is 34.
