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October 9
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 282nd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (283rd in
Leap years). There are 83 days remaining.
Events
*
1000 -
Leif Ericson discovers
Vinland, becoming the first known
European to set foot in
North America.
*
1075 -
Dmitar Zvonimir was crowned as king of the
Medieval Croatian state Croatia.
*
1238 -
James I of Aragon conquered
Valencia and founded the
Kingdom of Valencia.
*
1446 - The
Hangul alphabet is published in
Korea.
*
1514 - marriage of
Louis XII of France and
Mary Tudor (queen consort of France) Mary Tudor
*
1582 - Due to the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in
Italy,
Poland,
Portugal and
Spain.
*
1604 -
Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the
Milky Way.
*
1635 - Founder of
Rhode Island Roger Williams (theologian) Roger Williams is banished from
Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away
Native Americans in the United States Native American land.
*
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed
Yale University) is chartered in
Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
*
1771 - The
Netherlands Dutch merchant ship
Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of
Finland.
*
1776 - Father
Francisco Palou founds
Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now
San Francisco, California.
*
1812 -
War of 1812: In a naval engagement on
Lake Erie,
United States American forces capture two
United Kingdom British ships; the
HMS Detroit and the
HMS Caledonia.
*
1820 -
Guayaquil declared independence from
Spain.
*
1831 -
John Capodistria Capo d'Istria was
assassinated.
*
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Tom's Brook -
United States Union cavalrymen in the
Shenandoah Valley defeat
Confederate States of America Confederate forces at
Tom's Brook, Virginia.
*
1871 - The
Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
*
1874 -
General Postal Union was created as a result of the
Treaty of Berne.
*
1888 - The
Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
*
1914 -
World War I:
Siege of Antwerp -
Antwerp,
Belgium falls to
Germany German troops.
*
1919 -
Black Sox scandal: The
Cincinnati Reds "win" the
World Series.
*
1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to
Hoover Dam) begin to transmit
electricity from the
Colorado River (U.S.) Colorado River 266 miles to
Los Angeles, California.
*
1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the
Germany German Luftwaffe,
St Paul's Cathedral St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
*
1942 - Statute of
Westminster Adoption Act formalizes
Australian autonomy.
*
1957 -
Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the
United States Secretary of Defense 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
*
1962 -
Uganda becomes a republic.
*
1963 - In northeast
Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the
Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
*
1967 - A day after being caught,
Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in
Bolivia.
*
1969 - In
Chicago, Illinois, the
United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the "
Chicago Eight" (trial started on
September 24).
* 1969 - Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the
Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
*
1970 - The
Khmer Republic is proclaimed in
Cambodia.
*
1986 -
United States District Court Judge
Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through
impeachment.
*
1989 - An official news agency in the
Soviet Union reports the landing of a
Unidentified flying object UFO in
Voronezh.
* 1989 - In
Leipzig,
East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and
democracy democratic reforms.
*
1991 -
Ecuador becomes a member of the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Berne Convention copyright treaty.
*
1992 - A 13
kilogram (est.)
meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in
Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980
Chevrolet Malibu.
*
1995 - An
Amtrak Sunset Limited train is
1995 Palo Verde derailment derailed by
saboteurs near
Palo Verde,
Arizona.
*
2001 - Second mailing of
anthrax letters from
Trenton,
New Jersey in the
2001 anthrax attack.
*
2002 - After losing a massive amount of ground during the summer of 2002, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 7,286.27, its lowest level in five years. The
NASDAQ also hit a six-year low of 1,114.11.
*
2004 - Democratic elections held for the first time in
Afghanistan.
* 2004 - The tri-annual federal election is held in
Australia and
Liberal Party of Australia leader,
John Howard, wins a fourth term as
Prime Minister in a landslide victory over opponent,
Mark Latham of the
Australian Labor Party.
*
2005 -
China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the new accurate height of
Everest is 8848.43 m.
* 2005 - When Tropical Depression 23 strengthened into
Hurricane Vince it made the
2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the first season to use the
V name.
* 2005 -
Tobacco smoking Smoking is fully banned on the UK rail network.
Births
*
1201 -
Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d.
1274)
*
1221 -
Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
*
1261 - King
Denis of Portugal Dinis of Portugal (d.
1325)
*
1328 - King
Peter I of Cyprus (d.
1369)
*
1581 -
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d.
1638)
*
1585 -
Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d.
1672)
*
1586 -
Leopold V of Austria (Habsburg) Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d.
1632)
*
1757 - King
Charles X of France (d.
1836)
*
1796 -
Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d.
1878)
*
1835 -
Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d.
1921)
*
1840 -
Simeon Solomon, British artist (d.
1905)
*
1852 -
Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1919)
*
1859 -
Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d.
1935)
*
1873 -
Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d.
1916)
* 1873 -
Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d.
1939)
* 1873 -
Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d.
1944)
*
1874 -
Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d.
1947)
*
1879 -
Max von Laue, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1960)
*
1886 -
Rube Marquard, baseball player (d.
1980)
*
1888 -
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d.
1938)
*
1890 -
Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d.
1944)
*
1892 -
Ivo Andric Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1975)
* 1892 -
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d.
1941)
*
1893 -
Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d.
1945)
*
1900 -
Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d.
1976)
*
1907 -
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone Quintin Hogg, British politician (d.
2001)
*
1908 -
Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d.
1982)
*
1909 -
Donald Coggan,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
2000)
*
1911 -
Joe Rosenthal, American photographer
*
1915 -
Clifford M. Hardin,
United States Secretary of Agriculture
*
1920 -
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d.
1976)
*
1923 -
Fyvush Finkel, American actor
*
1928 -
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
*
1933 -
Peter Mansfield, British physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
1936 -
Brian Blessed, English actor
*
1938 -
Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
*
1940 -
John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (
The Beatles) (d.
1980)
*
1941 -
Trent Lott, American politician
* 1941 -
Chucho Valdés, cuban music
*
1944 -
John Entwistle, British musician (
The Who) (d.
2002)
* 1944 -
Nona Hendryx, American singer (
LaBelle)
* 1944 -
Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (d.
1987)
*
1946 -
Tansu Çiller,
Prime Minister of Turkey
*
1948 -
Jackson Browne, American musician
*
1950 -
Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
*
1952 -
Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of
Ozzy Osbourne
*
1953 -
Tony Shalhoub, American actor
*
1954 -
Scott Bakula, American actor
*
1957 -
Don Garber, Sports commisioner
*
1958 -
Michael Pare, American actor
*
1962 -
Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
*
1964 -
Bobby Flay, Celebrity chef and restauranteur
*
1966 -
David Cameron, British politician
*
1967 -
Eddie Guerrero, Mexican Professional Wrestler (d.
2005)
*
1969 -
P.J. Harvey, English musician
*
1970 -
Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
* 1970 -
Savannah (film actress) Savannah, American actress (d.
1994)
* 1970 -
Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
*
1971 -
Simon Atlee, British photographer (d.
2004)
* 1971 -
Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
*
1973 -
Steven Burns, actor and musician
* 1973 -
Fabio Lione, Italian musician (
Rhapsody)
*
1975 -
Sean Lennon, English musician
*
1978 -
Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (
Westlife)
* 1978 -
Juan Dixon, American basketball player
*
1979 -
Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
*
1980 -
Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
*
1981 -
Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
* 1981 -
Darius Miles, American basketball player
*
1986 -
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
*
1994 -
Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
Deaths
*
1047 -
Pope Clement II (b.
1005)
*
1253 -
Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
*
1390 - King
John I of Castile (b.
1358)
*
1555 -
Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (b.
1493)
*
1562 -
Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (b.
1523)
*
1569 -
Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b.
1533)
*
1597 -
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b.
1537)
*
1691 -
William Sacheverell, English statesman (b.
1638)
*
1709 -
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of
Charles II of England (b.
1640)
*
1729 -
Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b.
1654)
*
1793 -
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b.
1718)
*
1797 -
Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b.
1720)
*
1806 -
Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b.
1731)
*
1831 -
John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b.
1776)
*
1924 -
Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b.
1873)
*
1934 - King
Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b.
1888)
* 1934 -
Louis Barthou,
Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b.
1862)
*
1940 -
Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to
Newfoundland and Labrador (b.
1865).
*
1941 -
Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b.
1900)
*
1943 -
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1865)
*
1955 -
Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b.
1875)
*
1956 -
Marie Doro, American actress (b.
1882)
*
1958 -
Pope Pius XII (b.
1876)
*
1962 -
Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b.
1885)
*
1967 -
Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b.
1928)
* 1967 -
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
*
1972 -
Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b.
1902)
*
1974 -
Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b.
1908)
*
1978 -
Jacques Brel, Belgian musician (b.
1929)
*
1987 -
Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b.
1908)
* 1987 -
Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b.
1903)
* 1987 -
William Murphy (scientist) William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1892)
*
1989 -
Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b.
1940)
*
1995 -
Alec Douglas-Home,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1903)
*
1996 -
Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b.
1913)
*
2000 -
David Dukes, American actor (b.
1945)
*
2001 -
Dagmar, American television personality (b.
1921)
*
2005 -
Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b.
1913)
Holidays
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints - Saint
Denis, Saint John Leonardi
* Also see
October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
South Korea -
Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of
Hangul, the native
Korean language Korean phonetic alphabet.
*
Uganda -
Independence Day (from Britain,
1962)
*
Leif Erikson Day - in
United States,
Iceland and
Norway: celebrating the first
European landing in
North America
*
Ecuador -
Guayaquil's
Independence Day (from Spain
1820) (Dia de la independencia de
Guayaquil)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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October 8 -
October 10 -
September 9 -
November 9 - more
historical anniversaries
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