Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 9
September 9: Republic Day in North Korea (1948), Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991).
- 1000: King Olaf I of Norway fell overboard during the Battle of Svolder and disappeared in the Baltic Sea.
- 1513: King James IV of Scotland (pictured right) was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland while leading an invasion of England.
- 1850: As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted into the United States as a free state.
- 1971: The Attica Prison riots broke out at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States.
- 2001: Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
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