October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 768 Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
- 1238 James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1264 The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
- 1446 The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 1514 Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1558 Mιrida is founded in Venezuela.
- 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1595 The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
- 1604 Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
- 1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- 1708 Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1740 Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
- 1760 Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
- 1771 The 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.
- 1799 Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- 1804 Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- 1806 Prussia declares war on France.
- 1812 War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
- 1820 Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- 1824 Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- 1831 Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
- 1834 Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 1845 The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1854 Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
- 1873 A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
- 1874 General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
- 1888 The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1907 Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
- 1911 An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- 1913 Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- 1914 World War I: Siege of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
- 1919 Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 1934 Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- 1936 Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
- 1940 World War II: Battle of Britain During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
- 1941 A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- 1942 Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
- 1942 The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
- 1945 Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
- 1950 Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
- 1962 Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 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.
- 1966 Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
- 1966 Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
- 1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- 1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
- 1970 The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1983 Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
- 1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
- 1989 An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
- 1991 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill 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 derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
- 1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
- 2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
- 2003 Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
- 2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
- 2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
[edit] Births
- 1201 Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
- 1221 Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290)
- 1261 King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
- 1328 King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
- 1581 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mιziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
- 1586 Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
- 1704 Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
- 1757 King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
- 1796 Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
- 1835 Camille Saint-Saλns, French composer (d. 1921)
- 1837 Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist (d. 1902)
- 1840 Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
- 1852 Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1855 Paul Wiesner, German sailor (d. 1930)
- 1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
- 1871 Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1940)
- 1871 Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar (d. 1922)
- 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 laureate (d. 1960)
- 1886 Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1888 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
- 1888 Irving Cummings, American actor and film director (d. 1959)
- 1890 Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
- 1892 Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1892 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
- 1893 Mαrio de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
- 1900 Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
- 1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
- 1902 Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
- 1903 Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
- 1906 Lιopold Sιdar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
- 1906 J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1985)
- 1907 Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
- 1907 Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
- 1907 Horst Wessel, German Nazi and songwriter (d. 1930)
- 1908 Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
- 1908 Werner von Haeften, German officer and Hitler assassination conspirator (d. 1944)
- 1908 Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
- 1909 Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
- 1911 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
- 1914 Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1915 Clifford M. Hardin, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
- 1918 E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
- 1918 Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000)
- 1919 Belva Plain, American novelist (d. 2010)
- 1920 Jens Bjψrneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
- 1920 Yusef Lateef, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator
- 1921 Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
- 1922 Lιon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
- 1922 Fyvush Finkel, American actor
- 1923 Donald Sinden, English actor
- 1925 Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
- 1926 Daniθle Delorme, French actress
- 1928 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
- 1931 Tony Booth, British actor
- 1931 Homer Smith, American football coach (d. 2011)
- 1933 Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1933 Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1934 Jill Ker Conway, Australian-born American author
- 1934 Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
- 1935 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family
- 1937 Brian Blessed, English actor
- 1938 Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
- 1939 O. V. Wright, American soul singer (d. 1980)
- 1940 Gordon Humphrey, American politician
- 1940 John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
- 1940 Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
- 1941 Trent Lott, American politician
- 1941 Brian Lamb, American television executive
- 1941 Chucho Valdιs, Cuban musician
- 1941 Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008)
- 1943 Mike Peters, American cartoonist
- 1943 Douglas Kirby, American teenage behavior researcher
- 1943 Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer
- 1944 John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
- 1944 Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
- 1945 Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
- 1946 Tansu Ηiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
- 1947 France Gall, French singer
- 1947 William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
- 1947 Tony Zappone, American broadcaster and journalist
- 1948 Jackson Browne, American musician
- 1948 Dave Samuels, American vibraphonist
- 1950 Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1950 Brian Downing, American baseball player
- 1950 Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist
- 1952 Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
- 1953 Tony Shalhoub, American actor
- 1954 Scott Bakula, American actor
- 1954 James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
- 1954 Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
- 1954 John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
- 1955 Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer
- 1957 Don Garber, American sports commissioner
- 1957 Ini Kamoze, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1958 Michael Pare, American actor
- 1958 Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
- 1958 Mike Singletary, American football player
- 1959 Michael Cobley, English-born Scottish writer
- 1960 Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
- 1960 Maddie Blaustein, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1961 Julian Bailey, British racing driver
- 1961 Gyula Hajszαn, Hungarian footballer
- 1962 Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
- 1962 Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
- 1964 Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
- 1964 John Ralston, Canadian actor
- 1965 Jimbo Fisher, American college football coach
- 1966 Christopher Φstlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
- 1966 David Cameron, British Prime Minister
- 1967 Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
- 1967 Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1968 Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011)
- 1969 P.J. Harvey, English musician
- 1969 Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater
- 1969 Giles Martin, British record producer
- 1970 Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
- 1970 Steve Jablonsky, American music composer
- 1970 Jason Butler Harner, American actor
- 1970 Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
- 1970 Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
- 1970 Annika Sφrenstam, Swedish golfer
- 1971 Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
- 1971 Jason Jones, American filmmaker
- 1971 Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
- 1972 Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
- 1972 Audie England, American actress
- 1973 Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)
- 1973 Steven Burns, American actor and musician
- 1973 Erin Daniels, American actress
- 1973 Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
- 1973 Carlos Pavσn, Honduran footballer
- 1974 Shmuel Herzfeld, American Rabbi
- 1974 Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
- 1975 Sean Lennon, American musician
- 1975 Rale Micic, Serbian musician
- 1975 Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
- 1976 Nick Swardson, American actor
- 1976 Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer
- 1976 Sam Riegel, American voice actor, writer and director
- 1977 Brian Roberts, American baseball player
- 1977 Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer
- 1977 Yaki Kadafi, American Rapper (Outlawz) (d. 1996)
- 1978 Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
- 1978 Juan Dixon, American basketball player
- 1978 Rossa, Indonesian singer
- 1979 Alex Greenwald, American musician (Phantom Planet)
- 1979 Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor and former Gaelic footballer
- 1979 Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
- 1979 Brandon Routh, American actor
- 1979 Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
- 1980 Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
- 1980 Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1981 Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
- 1981 Darius Miles, American basketball player
- 1982 Antσnio Mendonηa, Angolan footballer
- 1982 Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
- 1983 Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
- 1983 Spencer Grammer, American actress
- 1983 Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
- 1983 Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
- 1984 Ghetto, British musician
- 1984 Djamel Mesbah, Algerian footballer
- 1986 Derek Holland, American baseball player (pitcher)
- 1986 Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
- 1987 Bill Walker, American basketball player
- 1992 Tyler James Williams, American actor
- 1993 Lauren Davis, American tennis player
- 1993 Sarah Lahbati, Filipina television actress
- 1993 Jhoana Marie Tan, Filipina television actress
- 1993 Scotty McCreery, American singer
- 1994 Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
[edit] Deaths
- 1047 Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
- 1253 Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
- 1273 Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
- 1390 King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
- 1555 Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
- 1562 Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
- 1569 Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
- 1581 Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
- 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)
- 1808 John Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777)
- 1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
- 1873 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- 1897 Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
- 1900 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- 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)
- 1937 Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
- 1940 Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
- 1941 Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
- 1943 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1946 Frank Castleman, American sportsman (b. 1877)
- 1950 George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
- 1953 Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
- 1955 Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
- 1956 Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
- 1958 Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
- 1959 Shirō Ishii, Japanese military microbiologist, head of Unit 731 (b. 1892)
- 1962 Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
- 1967 Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
- 1967 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1967 Andrι Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
- 1968 Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
- 1972 Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1974 Oskar Schindler, Sudeten German businessman (b. 1908)
- 1976 Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
- 1978 Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
- 1985 Emνlio Garrastazu Mιdici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
- 1987 Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
- 1987 Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
- 1987 William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
- 1988 Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
- 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)
- 1999 Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
- 1999 Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
- 2000 David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2000 Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
- 2001 Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
- 2001 Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
- 2002 Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2002 Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
- 2002 Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
- 2004 Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
- 2005 Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
- 2005 Stella Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1931)
- 2006 Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
- 2006 Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
- 2007 Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
- 2008 Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
- 2009 Stuart Kaminsky, American author (b. 1934)
- 2011 Pavel Karelin, Russian skijumper (b. 1989)
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