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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

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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