Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 9

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  Great train wreck of 1918
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  Thabo Mbeki

• 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: The French victory in the Battle of Melle made their subsequent capture of Ghent possible.

• 1755 – French and Indian War: The defeat in the Battle of the Monongahela brought an end to Britain's attempt to capture the strategically important Ohio Country.

• 1868 – The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, including the Citizenship Clause, the Equal Protection Clause and the Privileges or Immunities Clause among others, was ratified by the minimum required twenty-eight U.S. states.

• 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, opened.

• 1896 – Politician William Jennings Bryan made his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism, considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.

• 1943 – World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily, a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.

• 1962 – The United States conducted the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test, the largest man-made nuclear explosion in outer space.

• 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.

• 1999 – Six days of student protests began after Iranian police attacked a University of Tehran dormitory following a peaceful student demonstration against the closure of the reformist newspaper Salam.

July 9: Independence DayinArgentina (1816) and South Sudan (2011)

• 455 – Roman military commander Avitus was proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

• 869 – An earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the area around Sendai, Japan, leaving sand deposits up to 2.5 miles (4 km) inland.

• 1850 – Following Zachary Taylor's death, Millard Fillmore (pictured) became President of the United States, the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office.

• 1962 – In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus GalleryinLos Angeles.

• 2008 – Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear programme, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise.