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Events on July 9

• 1357 Emperor Charles IV lays the foundation stone for the Charles Bridge in Prague.
• 1873 The German Coinage Act is passed in the German Empire. It establishes the mark, divided into 100 pfennigs, as the imperial currency.
• 1916 The merchant submarine Deutschland arrives in Baltimore after the first transatlantic crossing by a submarine.
• 1932 At the end of the Lausanne Conference, the German government under Franz von Papen succeeds in ending the reparations payments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The opposition in the Reichstag regards the outcome of the negotiations as inadequate.
• 1945 Within the Soviet occupation zone, the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg (formerly the Province of Brandenburg), Saxony and Thuringia, as well as the state of Saxony-Anhalt (formerly the Province of Saxony), are created by an order of the SMAD.
• 1954 The newly established Federal Review Office for Youth-Harmful Publications places two comics from the series Der kleine Sheriff and Jezab, der Seefahrer on the index as its first works.
• 1955 The philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell publishes in London the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, signed by him and ten other scientists, which addresses the consequences of the deployment of nuclear weapons.
• 1985 During the glycol wine scandal, the German Federal Ministry of Health warns the public that some Austrian wines have been adulterated with the antifreeze agent diethylene glycol.
• 1986 Siemens manager and nuclear physicist Karl Heinz Beckurts is killed in an RAF bomb attack in Straßlach near Munich.
• 1989 The German tennis players Steffi Graf and Boris Becker win the singles events at the Wimbledon Championships within a few hours.
• 2006 In the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Italy defeats the French national team 5:3 in the penalty shootout.
• 2024 The European carrier rocket Ariane 6 launches into space for the first time from the Guiana Space Centre at 19:00 UTC.

Born on July 9

• 1868 Gustav Noske, German politician
• 1900 Ida Ehre, Austrian-German actress and director, Holocaust survivor
• 1914 Willi Stoph, German politician
• 1932 Donald Rumsfeld, American politician
• 1942 Richard Roundtree, American film actor
• 1951 Chris Cooper, American actor
• 1960 Dr. Motte, German DJ, entrepreneur and event promoter
• 1971 Marc Andreessen, American founder of Netscape Communications Corporation
• 1974 Ross Antony, British television presenter, musical performer, musician and entertainer
• 1991 Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „9. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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