July 9: Independence Day in Argentina (1816)
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900
- 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: The French victory in the Battle of Melle enabled their subsequent capture of Ghent.
- 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis tournament, began.
- 1900 – Queen Victoria gave her royal assent to an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, ratifying the Constitution of Australia (pictured).
- 1937 – Nitrate film being stored in a 20th Century Fox facility spontaneously combusted, destroying more than 40,000 reels of negatives and film prints.
- 1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: After having advised civilians to take shelter in places of worship, the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed a church in Navaly, killing at least 125 people.
Edmund Burke (d. 1797) · Eugenia Tadolini (b. 1809) · Jessica Anderson (d. 2010)
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