Today is Thursday, September 9, the 252nd day of 2010. There are 113 days left in the year.
1776 _ Continental Congress renames ``United Colonies," ``United States"
1839 _ John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
1841 _ Great Lakes steamer ``Erie" sinks off Silver Creek, N.Y., kills 300
1943 _ Italy surrenders to the Allies
1945 _ Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
1948 _ People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1956 _ Elvis Presley appears on national TV for first time (Ed Sullivan)
1965 _ Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1971 _ John Lennon releases the ``Imagine" album
1990 _ Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait