October 9Birthdays & History

On this day: October 9 in history

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1. 768Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.Europe
2. 1238James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.Europe
3. 1410The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.Europe
4. 1594Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.EuropeAsia
5. 1604Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.World
6. 1635Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.North America
7. 1701The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.North America
8. 1708Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.Europe
9. 1740Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.EuropeAsia
10. 1760Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.Europe
11. 1779American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.North AmericaEurope
12. 1790A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.Africa
13. 1799HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.Europe
14. 1804Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.Oceania
15. 1806Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.Europe
16. 1812War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.North AmericaEurope
17. 1820Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.Europe
18. 1825Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.North AmericaEurope
19. 1831Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.Europe
20. 1834Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.Europe
21. 1847Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.Europe
22. 1861American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.North America
23. 1864American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia during Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign.North America
24. 1873A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.North America
25. 1874The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.Europe
26. 1900The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.Europe
27. 1911An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.Asia
28. 1913The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.World
29. 1914World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.Europe
30. 1918The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.Europe
31. 1919The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.North America
32. 1934An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.Europe
33. 1936Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.North America
34. 1937Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.AsiaAsia
35. 1941A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.Latin America
36. 1942Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.OceaniaEurope
37. 1950The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.Asia
38. 1962Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.Africa
39. 1963In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.Europe
40. 1966Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.Asia
41. 1967A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.Latin America
42. 1969In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".North America
43. 1970The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.Asia
44. 1980Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.Europe
45. 1981President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.Europe
46. 1983South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.Asia
47. 1984The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.Europe
48. 1986The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.Europe
49. 1986Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.North America
50. 1992The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New YorkNorth America
51. 1995An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.North America
52. 2006North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.Asia
53. 2007The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.North America
54. 2009First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.North America
55. 2012Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.Asia
56. 2016The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.Asia
57. 2019Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.Middle East
58. 2024Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.North America

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