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On This Day In History for July 9, 2025

This is the 190th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 175 days remaining in 2025.

• It was on this date in 1763, that The Mozart family started their grand tour of Europe, lifting the profile of their son Wolfgang Amadeus.


• 132 years ago today, Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performed the first successful open-heart surgery in the United States without anesthesia.


• Also on July 9, 1937, The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation were destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.


• It was also this date in 1955 that The Russell-Einstein Manifesto called for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.


• It was on this date in 1958, that A 7.8 magnitude strike-slip earthquake in Alaska caused a landslide that produced a megatsunami. The run-up from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.


• July 9, 1962, Starfish Prime tested the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• American inventor, the man who invented the sewing machine, Elias Howe, born on this date in 1819.


• Italian composer and conductor Ottorino Respighi was born 146 years ago today.


• John Archibald Wheeler, the American physicist and author was born 114 years ago today.


• Dutch mathematician and academic, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn was born 107 years ago today.


• Kathleen Booth, the British computer scientist and mathematician was born 103 years ago today.


• American computer scientist and graphic artist, Janice Lourie is 95 today.


• American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Tom Hanks, born on this date in 1956.


• American software developer, co-founded Netscape, Marc Andreessen is 54 today.


• American actor, director, and producer, Fred Savage, born on this date in 1976.

Listener Birthdays

• 10 – KHD a.k.a. The Devin


• 11 – Steven Truax (rednecktech)


• 12 – Shadowbird712 of Shadowbird Studios (http://shadowbirdsrandomcrap.blogspot.com/) (Sorry for the cheap plug, y’all)


• 12 – François Pominville nickname: Bookaroo (Year: 11110110001, Canada)


• 13 – Ben Ragunton of TGGeeks

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 9, 2025

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