What happend on 9th September

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1943

World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1942

World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.

1926

The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.

1923

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).

1922

Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. The largest part of the city of Smyrna (on the Minor Asia coast, now Izmir) is burned. Non-Turkic population flees.

1914

World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

1886

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.

1870

Redmond, Washington, founded

1863

American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1850

The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.