FRIDAY, Sept. 9, 2022

1945-Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

1956-Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan)

1965-Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

1966-John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition

1968-First U.S. Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)

1984-John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl, for the U.S. Open Tennis title

1986-NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet U.N. employee) of spying

1988-U.S. swamps New Zealand at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal

1989-Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the U.S. Open championship

1990-Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait