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London, Sep 8 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events which occurred on September 9 since 1900: 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died. French painter and lithographer, he recorded characters from Parisian cabaret and nightlife.

1914 - In World War One, the chief of the German general staff, Helmuth von Moltke, called off the German advance after the British and French counter-attacked, ending the first Battle of the Marne.

German casualties were estimated at 800,000.

1942 - In a rare raid on the US mainland, a Japanese plane dropped incendiaries on Oregon.

1944 - A day after Soviet troops entered the country, internal Communist elements in Bulgaria seized power in a coup, Kimon Giorgiev replacing Konstantin Muraviev as prime minister.

1948 - After the withdrawal of Soviet forces from North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was proclaimed with Pyongyang as its capital.

1975 - Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum in the US 1976 - Chairman Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary leader died. He proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949 in Beijing. His ideas were set out in the ''Little Red Book'' studied by tens of millions during China's Cultural Revolution.

1990 - In Liberia, President Samuel Doe was captured by a rebel group led by Prince Yormie Johnson who then declared himself in charge of the country.

1991 - The Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan declared independence from Moscow.

1996 - Hutu rebels murdered the Roman Catholic archbishop of Burundi, Joachim Ruhuna, in an ambush.

1997 - Former president FW de Klerk, who freed South Africa from the scourge of his National Party's apartheid policies, retired from parliament.

1999 - A huge explosion destroyed a riverside apartment block in the southeast of Moscow killing 94 people.

2001 - Ahmad Shah Masood, the guerrilla commander leading the fight against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, was mortally wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in his office in the far north of Afghanistan. He died on September 14.

2002 - In India, the Rajdhani Express, heading to New Delhi from the eastern city of Calcutta, left the rails on a bridge near Rafiganj in Bihar state killing at least 126 and injuring 200.

2003 - Argentina defaulted on a $3 billion debt to the IMF, the biggest single missed payment in the IMF's history and likely to further isolate the precarious economy.

2003 - Edward Teller, pioneer in molecular physics dubbed the ''father of the H-bomb'', died. He was 95.

2003 - The Archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay up to 85 million dollars to settle lawsuits filed by hundreds of people who said they were sexually abused by clergy.

**2005 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak won a fifth six-year term in office with 88.6 per cent of votes cast in the country's first multi-candidate presidential election with a turnout of only 23 percent.

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