Today in Military History: September 9
Events of Military significance on this day:
|   | 1513 | Battle of Flodden.  Scots utterly defeated by English under the Earl of Surrey. |  
|   | 1776 | Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States". |  
|   | 1914 | Battle of Rava Russkaya.  Russians open a 40-mile gap in Austrian lines. |  
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