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Today is Monday, Sept. 9, the 253rd day of 2024. There are 113 days left in the year.
On Sept. 9, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first Black tennis player to win the U.S.
National Championships, which is now known as the U.S. Open.
In 1776, the second Continental Congress formally adopted the name “United States of America,” replacing the “United Colonies of North America.” In 1850, California was admitted as the 31st U.S.
state. In 1919, about 1,100 members of Boston’s 1,500-member police force went on strike. The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov.
Calvin Coolidge with replacement officers. In 1948, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was declared. In 1957, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights. It also established a Civil Rights Division in the U.S.
Department of Justice. In 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and living conditions. In 2022, King Charles III gave his first speech to Britain as its new monarch, vowing to carry on the “lifelong service” of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, who died a day earlier.
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