A bit of September 9th history…
1000 - Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age
1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America - from the United Colonies(pictured)
1945 - 1st “bug” in a computer program discovered, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the log
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time
1957 - US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1971 - John Lennon releases his “Imagine” album (pictured below)
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
2001 - At 01:46:40 UTC the time on the Unix clock in milliseconds passes 1 billion since Jan 1, 1970, which Unix systems recognize as zero-time
2008 - The iTunes music store reached 100 million applications downloaded
2009 - The iTunes music store reached 1.8 billion applications downloaded
2019 - Scientists reveal evidence of humans’ earliest milk consumption 6,000 years ago from the dental plaque of teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain
A bit of September 9th history… 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Baltic...