Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 9
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September 9: National Day in North Korea (1948), Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991)
- 1839 - John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane dropped an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
- 1976 - Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, died.
- 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco died a day after suffering a stroke whilst driving.
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
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