What happened on 9 September?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1976 Death of Mao Zedong Mao's death ends the Cultural Revolution era and opens the way for Deng Xiaoping's reforms.
2. 1850 Compromise of 1850 Series of US laws temporarily resolving slave/free state tensions.
3. 1899 The Rennes verdict Retried before a new court-martial with the world's press watching, Dreyfus is convicted again — 'with extenuating circumstances', a verdict incoherent on its face — and promptly p
4. 1910 Amundsen turns south in secret Roald Amundsen, publicly bound for the Arctic, tells his crew at Madeira that the Fram is actually going to Antarctica — and cables Scott, already en route: 'Beg leave to inform yo
5. 1513 Battle of Flodden James IV and the flower of Scottish nobility fall to an English army, a national catastrophe.
6. 1855 The fall of Sevastopol After 349 days, the French storming of the Malakoff redoubt makes the fortress untenable, and the Russians burn their fleet, blow their magazines and march out across a bridge of b
7. 1087 William the Conqueror dies at Rouen Injured campaigning in France, the Conqueror dies at Rouen; his attendants strip the room and his bloated body bursts at the funeral. England goes to his second son William Rufus,
8. 1936 Europe agrees not to intervene Twenty-seven nations join the London Non-Intervention Committee — which Germany and Italy sign while running guns and squadrons to Franco, and which Britain and France largely hono
9. 1739 Stono Rebellion Largest slave rebellion in British colonial America; slaves in South Carolina kill ~25 whites; brutally suppressed.