September 9
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Today is  Air Force Appreciation Day 2006. 1737: Italian physician Luigi Galvani, after whom the word "galvanic" is named, was born. 1776: The 2nd Continental Congress replaced "United Colonies" with the "United States." 1839: John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph. 1908: Edward Teller, "father of the H-bomb," died. 1914: John Poynting, who introduced a theorem that assigns a value to the rate of flow of electromagnetic energy known as the Poynting vector, was born. 1890: Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, was born (he was not a colonel). 1926: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). 1942: Japan dropped incendiaries over Oregon in an unsuccessful attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. 1945: The first "bug" in a computer program was discovered by Grace Hopper - a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the log. 1982: The world's first private rocket, "Conestoga I", was launched.  2003: Edward Teller, "father of the H-bomb," died.