9 September

1789: On 9 September 1789, William Cranch Bond was born.

Bond was an American astronomer who, with his son George Phillips Bond, discovered Hyperion - the eighth satellite of Saturn. He also discovered an inner ring of Saturn called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.

In 1815 he was sent by Harvard College to Europe to visit existing observatories and gather data preliminary to prepare for the building of an observatory at Harvard. In 1839 the observatory was founded and Bond became its first director.