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June 9
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June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (161st in
leap years), with 205 days remaining.
Events
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68 -
Roman Emperor Nero commits
suicide, imploring his secretary
Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a
Roman senate Senate-imposed death by flogging.
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1311 -
Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in
Siena Italy.
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1534 -
Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the
St. Lawrence River.
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1732 -
James Oglethorpe is granted a
royal charter for the colony of
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia.
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1772 - British vessel ''
Gaspee'' is burned off of
Rhode Island.
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1790 - ''Philadelphia Spelling Book'' by John Barry becomes the first
book to be
copyrighted in the
United States.
*
1815 - End of the
Congress of Vienna: new
European political situation is set.
*
1856 - 500
Mormons leave
Iowa City, Iowa and head west for
Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
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1860 - ''
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter'' becomes the first
dime novel to be published.
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1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Brandy Station,
Virginia.
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1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from
Hackensack, New Jersey Hackensack,
New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a
Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from
Manhattan,
New York to
San Francisco,
California.
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1915 - U.S. Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the
RMS Lusitania RMS ''Lusitania'' sinking.
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1922 - First ringing of the
Yale Memorial Carillon Harkness Memorial Chime at
Yale University.
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1923 -
Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a
coup.
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1930 -
Chicago Tribune reporter
Jake Lingle is killed at the
Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the
Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000
USD gambling debt owed to
Al Capone.
*
1934 -
Donald Duck debuts in
The Wise Little Hen.
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1935 -
Ho-Umezu Agreement:
China, under
Kuomintang KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
*
1944 - World War II: The
Soviet Union invades
East Karelia and the
Finnish Karelia previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by
Finland.
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1953 -
Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in
Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
*
1954 -
McCarthyism:
Joseph Welch, special counsel for the
United States Army, lashes out at
United States Senate Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether
Communism has infiltrated the Army.
*
1957 - First ascent of
Broad Peak (12th highest
mountain).
*
1959 - The
USS George Washington (SSBN-598) USS ''George Washington'' is launched as the first
submarine to carry
ballistic missiles.
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1973 -
Secretariat (racehorse) Secretariat wins the
Triple Crown.
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1978 -
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the
Priesthood (Mormonism) priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
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1980 - Comedian
Richard Pryor attempts to commit suicide by dousing himself with
rum and setting it ablaze during a
cocaine binge.
*
1985 -
Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in
Lebanon (he was not released until
1991).
*
1986 - The
Rogers Commission Report Rogers Commission releases its report on the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
*
1991 - The congress of the
Italy Italian political party party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the
Communist Refoundation Party.
*
1999 -
Kosovo War:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
NATO sign a
peace treaty.
*
2006 -
Germany invites the
World to
World Cup 2006 slogan
A time to make friends
Births
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1508 -
Primož Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformet (d.
1586)
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1580 -
Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d.
1655)
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1588 -
Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d.
1666)
*
1595 - King
Wladislaus IV of Poland (d.
1648)
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1640 -
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1705)
*
1661 - Tsar
Feodor III of Russia (d.
1682)
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1672 - Tsar
Peter I of Russia (d.
1725)
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1686 -
Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d.
1747)
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1768 -
Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d.
1835)
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1810 -
Otto Nicolai, German composer (d.
1849)
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1812 -
Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d.
1910)
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1843 -
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1914)
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1845 -
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d.
1914)
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1849 -
Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d.
1927)
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1851 -
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d.
1921)
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1865 -
Albéric Magnard, French composer (d.
1914)
* 1865 -
Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d.
1931)
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1875 -
Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1968)
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1882 -
Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d.
1963)
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1890 -
Leslie Banks, British actor (d.
1952)
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1891 -
Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d.
1964)
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1900 -
Fred Waring, American bandleader (d.
1984)
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1915 -
Les Paul, influential American guitarist
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1916 -
Robert McNamara,
United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
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1922 -
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d.
1941)
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1931 -
Jackie Mason, American comedian
* 1931 -
Joe Santos, American actor
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1937 -
Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
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1939 -
Ileana Cotrubas, Romanian soprano
* 1939 -
Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
*
1941 -
Jon Lord, organist in
Deep Purple
*
1947 -
Kiran Bedi, The First Lady
Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer
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1952 -
Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
*
1956 -
Patricia Cornwell, American author
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1961 -
Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
* 1961 -
Aaron Sorkin, American director, producer, and writer
*
1963 -
Johnny Depp, American actor
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1964 -
Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
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1973 -
Tedy Bruschi, American football player
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1975 -
Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
*
1977 -
Roopa Mishra, the first
Oriya lady to top the Civils Services Examination of India and also the first married lady in
India to achieve this feat in 2004.
*
1978 -
Matthew Bellamy, British
singer,
guitarist,
pianist,
composer of the band
Muse (band).
* 1978 -
Miroslav Klose, German footballer
*
1981 -
Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
*
1993 -
Danielle Chuchran, American child actress
Deaths
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62 -
Claudia Octavia, wife of
Nero (b.
40)
*
68 -
Nero,
List of Roman Emperors Roman Emperor (b.
37)
*
373 -
Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
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597 -
Columba St. Columba, Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland (b.
521)
*
630 - King
Shahrbaraz of Persia
*
1361 -
Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b.
1291)
*
1563 -
William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b.
1506)
*
1572 -
Jeanne d'Albret,
Queen of Navarre (b.
1528)
*
1583 -
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
*
1656 -
Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b.
1572)
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1716 -
Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
*
1717 -
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b.
1648)
*
1870 -
Charles Dickens, English author (b.
1812)
*
1875 -
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b.
1795)
*
1892 -
William Stairs, Canadian explorer (b.
1863)
*
1946 -
Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b.
1925)
*
1952 -
Adolf Busch, German composer (b.
1891)
*
1958 -
Robert Donat, English actor (b.
1905)
*
1959 -
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1876)
*
1961 -
Camille Guérin, French scientist (b.
1872)
*
1964 -
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b.
1879)
*
1974 -
Miguel Ã?ngel Asturias, Guatemalan writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
*
1989 -
George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1903)
*
1991 -
Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b.
1903)
*
1993 -
Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b.
1921)
*
1994 -
Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
2004 -
Rosey Brown, American football player (b.
1932)
Holidays and observances
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Catholicism -
Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints).
*
Roman Empire - third day of the
Vestalia in honor of
Vesta (mythology) Vesta
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United States - Race Unity Day
*
United States - Children's Day
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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''The New York Times'': On This Day
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On This Day in Canada
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