On this day in history - Today, September, 9

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

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

  Manuel Noriega, former military ruler of Panama, was released after 17 years of imprisonment in the

• 2001 Unix Billennium is Celebrated

  Unix time or Unix epoch, POSIX time or Unix timestamp, is a time system that measures the number of

• 1991 Tajikistan Declares its Independence from the Soviet Union

  The Central Asian country had been conquered by Russia in the late 19th century. In 1929, the Tajik

• 1948 Kim Il-sung Establishes North Korea

  After the Second World War, the Korean peninsula had been divided across the 38th parallel. The nort