Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 9

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September 9: Republic Day in North Korea (1948), Independence Day in Tajikistan (1991).

• 1000 - King Olaf I of Norway fell overboard during the Battle of Svolder and disappeared in the Baltic Sea.
• 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (pictured right) was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland while leading an invasion of England.
• 1850 - As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted into the United States as a free state.
• 2004 - A car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy, killing at least 9 people and injuring 140 others in the Jakarta embassy bombing.

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