October 9

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 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
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 is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke 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.
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.
1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
1820 - Guayaquil declared independence from Spain.
1831 - Capo d'Istria was assassinated.
1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat 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 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 transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, 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 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).
1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1983 - Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survived but the blast killed 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, whilst 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also died in the blast.
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 UFO in Voronezh.
1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the 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 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 - 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 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 - 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 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)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, The National Poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, 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 Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, 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, 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 musician
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
1947 - France Gall, French singer
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, American sports commissioner
1958 - Michael Pare, American actor
1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 - Bobby Flay, American 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, 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, American actor and musician
1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1975 - Sean Lennon, English musician
1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
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
1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian child 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 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 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 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)
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)

Holidays

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 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)
Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

BBC: On This Day

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Events

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