June 9Birthdays & History

On this day: June 9 in history

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1. 411 BCThe Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.Europe
2. 53The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.Europe
3. 68Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.Europe
4. 721Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.Europe
5. 747Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.Middle East
6. 1311Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.Europe
7. 1523The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.Europe
8. 1534Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.Europe
9. 1732James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.North America
10. 1772The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.EuropeNorth America
11. 1798Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.Europe
12. 1815End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.North AmericaEurope
13. 1856Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.North America
14. 1861The Beyoglu Protocol turns the district of Mount Lebanon into an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire and grants the Christians more power over the Druze.Middle East
15. 1862American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.North America
16. 1863American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater.North America
17. 1885Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.EuropeAsia
18. 1900Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.AsiaEurope
19. 1915William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.North America
20. 1922Åland's Regional Assembly convenes for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.Europe
21. 1923Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.Europe
22. 1928Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.North AmericaOceania
23. 1930A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.North America
24. 1944World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.Europe
25. 1944World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.Europe
26. 1948Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.Europe
27. 1953The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.North America
28. 1954Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"North America
29. 1957First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.Asia
30. 1958Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24.Europe
31. 1959The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.North America
32. 1965The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.Asia
33. 1965Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.Asia
34. 1967Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.Middle East
35. 1968U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.North America
36. 1972Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.North America
37. 1973In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.North America
38. 1978The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.North America
39. 1979The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.Oceania
40. 1995Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.Oceania
41. 1999Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.Europe
42. 2008Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.Africa
43. 2009An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.Asia
44. 2010At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.Asia

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