What happened on October 9? There are more than 294 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 9
October 9 is the 283rd day of the year 2024. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 41st week of the year 2024.
On this day in Melbourne, Florida 32940 sunrise occured at 07:19 AM and sunset occured at 07:00 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 112 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 9
- 768Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
- 1238James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1264The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
- 1446The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 1514Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1558Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
- 1582Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1595The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
- 1604Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1635Founder 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.
- 1701The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- 1708Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1740Dutch 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.
- 1760Seven Years’ War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
- 1771The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
- 1776Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1799Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- 1804Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- 1806Prussia declares war on France.
- 1812War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
- 1820Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- 1824Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- 1831Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
- 1834Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 1845The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1854Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 1861American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
- 1864American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1873A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
- 1874General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
- 1888The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1907Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
- 1911An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- 1913Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- 1914World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
- 1919Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 1934Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- 1936Generators 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.
- 1940World 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.
- 1941A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- 1942Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
- 1942The 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.
- 1945Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
- 1950Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
- 1962Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 1963In 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.
- 1966Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
- 1966Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
- 1967A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- 1969In 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.
- 1970The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 1981Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1983Rangoon 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.
- 1986The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- 1989An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
- 1991Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1992A 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
- 1995An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
- 1999The last flight of the SR-71.
- 2001Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
- 2003Mission: 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.
- 2006North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
- 2009First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
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Who Were Born On October 9?
- 1201Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
- 1221Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290)
- 1261King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
- 1328King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
- 1581Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
- 1586Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
- 1704Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
- 1757King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
- 1796Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
- 1835Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
- 1837Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist (d. 1902)
- 1840Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
- 1852Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1859Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
- 1871Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar (d. 1922)
- 1871Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1940)
- 1873Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
- 1873Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
- 1873Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
- 1874Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
- 1879Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- 1886Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1888Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
- 1890Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
- 1892Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1892Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
- 1893Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
- 1900Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
- 1900Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
- 1902Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
- 1903Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
- 1906Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
- 1907Horst Wessel, German Nazi and songwriter (d. 1930)
- 1907Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
- 1907Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
- 1908Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
- 1908Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
- 1908Werner von Haeften, German officer and Hitler assassination conspirator (d. 1944)
- 1909Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
- 1911Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
- 1914Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1915Clifford M. Hardin, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
- 1918E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
- 1918Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000)
- 1919Belva Plain, American novelist (d. 2010)
- 1920Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
- 1920Yusef Lateef, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator
- 1921Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
- 1922Fyvush Finkel, American actor
- 1922Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
- 1923Donald Sinden, English actor
- 1925Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
- 1926Danièle Delorme, French actress
- 1928Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
- 1931Homer Smith, American football coach (d. 2011)
- 1931Tony Booth, British actor
- 1933Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1933Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
- 1934Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
- 1934Jill Ker Conway, Australian-born American author
- 1935Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family
- 1937Brian Blessed, English actor
- 1938Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
- 1939O. V. Wright, American soul singer (d. 1980)
- 1940Gordon Humphrey, American politician
- 1940Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
- 1940John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
- 1941Brian Lamb, American television executive
- 1941Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
- 1941Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008)
- 1941Trent Lott, American politician
- 1943Douglas Kirby, American teenage behavior researcher
- 1943Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer
- 1943Mike Peters, American cartoonist
- 1944John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
- 1944Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
- 1945Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
- 1946Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
- 1947France Gall, French singer
- 1947Tony Zappone, American broadcaster and journalist
- 1947William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
- 1948Dave Samuels, American vibraphonist
- 1948Jackson Browne, American musician
- 1950Brian Downing, American baseball player
- 1950Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1950Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist
- 1952Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
- 1953Tony Shalhoub, American actor
- 1954Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
- 1954James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
- 1954John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
- 1954Scott Bakula, American actor
- 1955Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer
- 1957Don Garber, American sports commissioner
- 1957Ini Kamoze, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1958Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
- 1958Michael Pare, American actor
- 1958Mike Singletary, American football player
- 1959Michael Cobley, English-born Scottish writer
- 1960Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
- 1960Maddie Blaustein, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1961Gyula Hajszán, Hungarian footballer
- 1961Julian Bailey, British racing driver
- 1962Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
- 1962Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
- 1964Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
- 1964John Ralston, Canadian actor
- 1965Jimbo Fisher, American college football coach
- 1966Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
- 1966David Cameron, British Prime Minister
- 1967Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
- 1967Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1968Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011)
- 1969Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater
- 1969Giles Martin, British record producer
- 1969P.J. Harvey, English musician
- 1970Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
- 1970Jason Butler Harner, American actor
- 1970Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
- 1970Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
- 1970Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
- 1970Steve Jablonsky, American music composer
- 1971Jason Jones, American filmmaker
- 1971Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
- 1971Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
- 1972Audie England, American actress
- 1972Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
- 1973Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
- 1973Erin Daniels, American actress
- 1973Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
- 1973Steven Burns, American actor and musician
- 1973Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)
- 1974Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
- 1974Shmuel Herzfeld, American Rabbi
- 1975Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
- 1975Rale Micic, Serbian musician
- 1975Sean Lennon, American musician
- 1976Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer
- 1976Nick Swardson, American actor
- 1977Brian Roberts, American baseball player
- 1978Juan Dixon, American basketball player
- 1978Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
- 1978Rossa, Indonesian singer
- 1979Alex Greenwald, American musician (Phantom Planet)
- 1979Brandon Routh, American actor
- 1979Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
- 1980Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1980Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
- 1981Darius Miles, American basketball player
- 1981Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
- 1982António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
- 1982Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
- 1983Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
- 1983Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
- 1983Spencer Grammer, American actress
- 1983Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
- 1984Ghetto, British musician
- 1986Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
- 1987Bill Walker, American basketball player
- 1992Tyler James Williams, American actor
- 1993Jhoana Marie Tan, Filipina television actress
- 1993Sarah Lahbati, Filipina television actress
- 1993Scotty McCreery, American singer
- 1994Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
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Who Died On October 9?
- 1047Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
- 1253Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
- 1273Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
- 1390King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
- 1555Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
- 1562Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
- 1569Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
- 1581Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
- 1597Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
- 1691William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
- 1709Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
- 1729Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
- 1793Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
- 1797Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
- 1806Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
- 1808John Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777)
- 1831Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
- 1873George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- 1897Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
- 1900Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- 1924Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
- 1934King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
- 1934Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
- 1937Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
- 1940Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
- 1941Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
- 1943Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1950George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
- 1953Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
- 1955Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
- 1956Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
- 1958Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
- 1962Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
- 1967André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
- 1967Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1967Ernesto ‘Che’Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
- 1968Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
- 1972Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1974Oskar Schindler, Sudeten German businessman (b. 1908)
- 1976Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
- 1978Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
- 1985Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
- 1987Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
- 1987Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
- 1987William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
- 1988Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
- 1989Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
- 1995Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
- 1996Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
- 1999Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
- 1999Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
- 2000David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2000Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
- 2001Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
- 2001Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
- 2002Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
- 2002Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
- 2002Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2004Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
- 2005Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
- 2005Stella Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1931)
- 2006Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
- 2006Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
- 2007Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
- 2008Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
- 2011Pavel Karelin, Russian skijumper (b. 1989)
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