1875: Bombay Stock Exchange, the country’s first stock exchange, was established.
1877: The inaugural Wimbledon Championships began.
1893: 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: India’s first Five Year Plan was published.
1969: Tiger was declared the national animal of India.
2011: Partition of African country Sudan. The southern part separated from Sudan became Southern Sudan.
Famous Birthdays – 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 - 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.
