Today in History: July 9, 14th Amendment ratified

This day is Wednesday July the th day of There are days left in the year In the present day in history On July the th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified granting citizenship and equal protection under the laws to anyone born or naturalized in the United States including formerly enslaved people Also on this date In President Zachary Taylor died of gastrointestinal illness after consuming a large amount of cherries and iced milk on a hot day five days earlier Vice President Millard Fillmore was sworn in as president the following day Related Articles As MAGA fumes about Epstein Trump defends AG Bondi Trump reportedly was unaware of Ukraine weapons pause Musk s AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropes Antisemitism hearings put UC Berkeley Cal Poly under congressional spotlight Minnesota state Sen John Hoffman shot times by a man posing as an officer leaves the hospital In William Jennings Bryant delivered his famous Cross of Gold speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago In people were killed in a train collision in Nashville Tennessee in the deadliest US rail catastrophe in history In a fire at th Century Fox s storage facility in Little Ferry New Jersey destroyed bulk of the studio s silent films In during World War II the Allies launched Operation Husky the invasion of Sicily In during World War II American forces secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell In the engagement of Britain s Princess Elizabeth to Lt Philip Mountbatten was disclosed In the Sonny Cher single I Got You Babe was disclosed by ATCO Records In Pan Am Flight a Boeing crashed in Kenner Louisiana shortly after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport killing all people aboard and eight people on the ground In a Senate Intelligence Committee document concluded the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration had relied on to justify going to war In the largest U S -Russia spy swap since the Cold War was completed on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac as planes from New York and Moscow arrived within minutes of each other with Russian sleeper agents and four prisoners accused by Russia of spying for the West In South Sudan officially became an independent nation In President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy At present s Birthdays Artist David Hockney is Author Dean Koontz is Actor Chris Cooper is Musician and TV personality John Tesh is Country singer David Ball is Business executive TV personality Kevin O Leary TV Shark Tank is Singer Debbie Sledge Sister Sledge is Actor Jimmy Smits is US Senator Lindsey Graham is Actor Tom Hanks is Singer Marc Almond is Actor Kelly McGillis is Rock singer Jim Kerr Simple Minds is Actor-rock singer Courtney Love is Actor Pamela Adlon is Actor Scott Grimes is Actor Enrique Murciano TV Without a Trace is Musician producer Jack White is Rock singer-musician Isaac Brock Modest Mouse is Actor-director Fred Savage is Actor Linda Park TV Star Trek Enterprise is Actor Megan Parlen is Animator writer producer Rebecca Sugar is Actor Mitchel Musso is Actor Georgie Henley Film The Chronicles of Narnia is