Following are some of the major events which occurred on September 9:
1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died. French painter and lithographer, he recorded characters from Parisian cabaret and nightlife.
1976 – Chairman Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary leader, died. He proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949 in Beijing. His ideas were set out in the “Little Red Book” studied by tens of millions during China’s Cultural Revolution.
1996 – Hutu rebels murdered the Roman Catholic archbishop of Burundi, Joachim Ruhuna, in an ambush.
1999 – A huge explosion destroyed a riverside apartment block in southeast Moscow killing 94 people.
2001 – Ahmad Shah Masood, the guerrilla commander leading the fight against Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, was wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in his office in the far north of Afghanistan. He died of his injuries on Sept. 14.
2002 – In India, the Rajdhani Express, heading to New Delhi from the eastern city of Calcutta, derailed on a bridge near Rafiganj in Bihar state killing at least 126 and injuring 200.
2003 – The Archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay up to $85 million to settle lawsuits filed by hundreds of people who said they were sexually abused by clergy.
2005 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak won a fifth six-year term in office with 88.6 percent of votes cast in the country’s first multi-candidate presidential election with a turnout of only 23 percent.
2009 – Dubai Metro opens, the Gulf Emirate’s first urban train network.
2015 – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth becomes longest reigning monarch of United Kingdom.
(Reuters)