So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

September 9th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku (Japan)
- Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence (Slovakia)
- Festivity of Our Lady of Arantzazu (Oñati)
- Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates the proclamation of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991.
- Izmir Independence Day, celebrates Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's capture of Izmir, Turkey, from Greece in 1922. (Turkey)
- Statehood Day (California)

September 9th


- 2004 - 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- 2001 - Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
- 1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 - 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 1971 - The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
- 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1948 - Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- 1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
- 1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
- 1922 - Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
- 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1801 - Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
- 1791 - Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 9 - Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

September 9th


- 2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain
- 1992 - Damian McGinty, Irish Singer
- 1988 - Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
- 1988 - Dario D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
- 1987 - Joshua Herdman, English actor
- 1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
- 1986 - Michael Bowden, American baseball player
- 1986 - Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986 - Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
- 1985 - Yung Berg, American rapper
- 1985 - Luka Modri?, Croatian footballer
- 1985 - J. R. Smith, American basketball player
- 1984 - Farrah Gray, American author
- 1984 - Brad Guzan, American footballer
- 1984 - James Hildreth, English cricketer
- 1983 - Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
- 1983 - Katy Steele, Australian Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter for Little Birdy
- 1983 - Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
- 1983 - Kyle Davies, American baseball player
- 1983 - Kristine Hermosa, Filipina actress
- 1983 - Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
- 1982 - John Kuhn, American football player
- 1982 - Graham Onions, English cricketer
- 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress
- 1982 - Rômulo Eugênio Togni, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
- 1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
- 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress
- 1979 - Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer
- 1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
- 1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
- 1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
- 1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
- 1977 - Chae Jung An, South Korean actress and singer
- 1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
- 1977 - Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
- 1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
- 1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
- 1976 - Emma de Caunes, French film actress
- 1976 - Joey Newman, American film composer
- 1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
- 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, Borknagar)
- 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian/Italian singer and actor
- 1974 - Vikram Batra, Indian soldier (d. 1999)
- 1974 - Divine Brown, Canadian singer
- 1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
- 1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
- 1974 - Marcos Curiel, American guitarist (P.O.D.), Songwriter, Producer.
- 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
- 1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
- 1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player
- 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
- 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
- 1972 - Goran Visnjic, Croatian actor
- 1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
- 1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
- 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
- 1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer
- 1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
- 1968 - Clive Mendonca, English footballer
- 1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress
- 1967 - B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
- 1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
- 1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
- 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
- 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966 - Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player
- 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
- 1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player
- 1965 - Constance Marie, American actress
- 1965 - Todd Zeile, American baseball player
- 1963 - Alexandros Alexiou, Greek footballer
- 1963 - Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
- 1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor
- 1960 - Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey head coach
- 1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
- 1959 - Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
- 1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
- 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
- 1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
- 1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
- 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
- 1952 - Angela Cartwright, American actress
- 1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
- 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
- 1951 - Robert Desiderio, American actor
- 1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
- 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
- 1949 - John Curry, British figure skater
- 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player
- 1949 - Daniel Pipes, American writer and political commentator
- 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
- 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
- 1948 - Pamela Des Barres, American groupie and author
- 1947 - David Rosenboom, American composer
- 1946 - Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
- 1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
- 1946 - Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
- 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
- 1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
- 1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
- 1942 - Danny Kalb, American musician, (Blues Project)
- 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
- 1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
- 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1938 - Jay Ward, American baseball player
- 1935 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
- 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress
- 1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
- 1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
- 1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
- 1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
- 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1924 - Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
- 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
- 1923 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
- 1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
- 1922 - Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
- 1920 - Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2008)
- 1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1919 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
- 1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
- 1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic
- 1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
- 1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
- 1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
- 1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
- 1905 - Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher (d. 1981)
- 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1904 - Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
- 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
- 1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1894 - Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian politician and trade unionist (d. 1950)
- 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
- 1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
- 1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
- 1890 - Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- 1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
- 1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
- 1863 - Herbert Henry Ball, Ontario Politician and King's Printer (d. 1943)
- 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
- 1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
- 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
- 1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1777 - James Carr, U.S. Congressman (d. 1818)
- 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
- 1754 - William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
- 1721 - Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (d. 1808)
- 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
- 1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
- 1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
- 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
- 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
- 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
- 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
- 214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)