What happened on July 9th?

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Year What happened?
1401 Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000 Learn more..
  139 years
1540 Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves. Learn more..
  174 years
1714 Longitude Act gained royal assent offering £20,000 to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude Learn more..
  76 years
1790 Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet Learn more..
  66 years
1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, was born Learn more..
  21 years
1877 First tennis championships at Wimbledon Learn more..
  148 years
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