Historical Events on July 9

●  1875, 9th July: Bombay Stock Exchange, the country’s first stock exchange, was established.

● 1877, 9th July: The inaugural Wimbledon Championships began.

● 1893, 9th July: The first successful open-heartsurgery took place on Chicago’s South Side by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. The patient was James Cornish, a young man with a knife wound to the chest from a barroom brawl.

● 1951, 9th July: India’s first Five Year Plan was published.

● 1969, 9th July: Tiger was declared the national animal of India.

● 2011, 9th July: Partition of African country Sudan. The southern part separated from Sudan became Southern Sudan.


Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on July 9.

●  1903: Ghulam Ahmad Parwez, a pioneer of Quranist doctrine from pre-Independence India and later Pakistan.

● 1925: Guru Dutt, an Indian film director, producer, and actor.

● 1930: Kailasam Balachander, an Indian filmmaker and playwright.

● 1938: Sanjeev Kumar, an Indian film actor.

● 1956: Tom Hanks, an American actor, and filmmaker.

● 1970: Anuradha Sriram, an Indian Carnatic and playback singer.


Death Anniversaries of famous people on July 9.

●  1856: Amedeo Avogadro, an Italian scientist.

● 1932: King Camp Gillette, an American businessman. He invented a best-selling version of the safety razor.

● 1997: C. Ramaswamy Mudaliar, also known simply as C. Ramaswamy, was an Indian businessman, and politician.

● 2005: Rafiq Zakaria, an Indian politician and Islamic religious cleric.

● 2020: Ranjan Ghoshal, an Indian theatre director, and musician.

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