Important Events From Today in History – 09 September

Today in History

• 2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest reigning British monarch

  She broke the record set by Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne on June 20, 1837, and reigned for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days.

• 2007 Manuel Noriega’s sentence in the United States ends

  Manuel Noriega, Panama’s former military ruler, was released after serving 17 years in prison in the United States. He was imprisoned on drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering charges.

• 2001 Unix Billennium is Celebrated

  Unix time, also known as Unix epoch, POSIX time, or Unix timestamp, is a time system that counts the seconds since midnight UTC on January 1, 1970, excluding leap seconds. On September 9, 2001, at 01:46:40 UTC, Unix time reached the billionth-second timestamp.

• 1991 Tajikistan Declares its Independence from the Soviet Union

  Russia had conquered the Central Asian country in the late 19th century. In 1929, the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was created as a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Independence in 1991 came after the collapse of the USSR.

• 1948 Kim Il-sung Establishes North Korea

  After the Second World War, the Korean peninsula had been divided across the 38th parallel. The Soviets occupied the northern part, while the Americans occupied the south. The Cold War impeded unification, and on October 9, 1948, Kim Il-sung declared the creation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the support of the USSR.