Notable Historical Events on April 9th
April 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
193 |
Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans). |
475 |
Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. |
715 |
Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1241 |
Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans |
1388 |
Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army |
1413 |
Henry V is crowned King of England. |
1440 |
Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark. |
1454 |
Milan and Venice sign peace of Lodi |
1474 |
Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians |
1483 |
Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England. He was never crowned, and disappeared, presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower") |
1538 |
Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union |
1555 |
Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II |
1609 |
Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact |
1621 |
Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends |
1667 |
1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris) |
1682 |
Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France |
1691 |
French troops occupy Mons |
1731 |
British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain |
1768 |
John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies |
1783 |
Tippu Sahib drives out British from Bednore, India |
1808 |
Mayor Wolters offers French King Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace |
1814 |
Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance of the Netherlands |
1816 |
African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila) |
1829 |
Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 |
1833 |
1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH) |
1838 |
UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square, London |
1864 |
Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities |
1864 |
Union surgeon Mary Edwards Walker is captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy during US Civil War. |
1865 |
US Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant |
1866 |
Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1869 |
Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada |
1870 |
American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves |
1872 |
Samuel R Percy patents dried milk |
1894 |
1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz |
1906 |
3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS) |
1909 |
The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States |
1912 |
1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard) |
1913 |
Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0 |
1914 |
"World, the Flesh & the Devil", 1st color film, shown in London |
1914 |
Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico |
1914 |
US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people |
1916 |
The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection |
1917 |
Battle of Arras begins |
1917 |
Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops |
1918 |
Latvia proclaims independence |
1923 |
Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" premieres in Dublin |
1925 |
Babe Ruth rushed to hospital |
1927 |
Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences |
1928 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed" premieres in Pasadena |
1928 |
Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil" |
1928 |
Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss |
1928 |
Turkey passes separation of church & state |
1931 |
Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period |
1932 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games |
1935 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games |
1939 |
Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial |
1940 |
German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die |
1940 |
Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders) |
1941 |
PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame |
1942 |
Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan |
1944 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae |
1945 |
Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel |
1945 |
Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 |
1945 |
NFL requires players to wear long stockings |
1945 |
World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends. |
1946 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
1947 |
Atomic Energy Commission confirmed |
1947 |
Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year |
1947 |
Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300 |
1948 |
Massacre at Deir Yassin. |
1949 |
UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages |
1950 |
14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283 |
1950 |
4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win |
1950 |
Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance |
1952 |
Popular uprising in Bolivia |
1952 |
Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines |
1953 |
"TV Guide" publishes 1st issue |
1953 |
Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax. |
1954 |
WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1957 |
Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy" premieres in Wash DC |
1957 |
Suez Canal cleared for all shipping |
1959 |
Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators) |
1959 |
Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot |
1959 |
NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury |
1959 |
13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title |
1960 |
14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 |
1960 |
South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
1962 |
26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280 |
1962 |
34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win |
1962 |
JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium |
1963 |
Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen |
1965 |
Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK |
1965 |
India & Pakistan engage in border fight |
1965 |
1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun |
1966 |
Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens |
1967 |
"At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 perfs |
1967 |
1st Boeing 737 rolls out |
1967 |
31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280 |
1967 |
Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down |
1967 |
The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight. |
1968 |
German DR adopts constitution |
1968 |
Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta |
1968 |
Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1968 |
Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference |
1969 |
1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol) |
1969 |
Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3 |
1971 |
Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK |
1972 |
"Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances |
1972 |
36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
1972 |
Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI |
1972 |
USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty |
1973 |
37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283 |
1973 |
Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam |
1973 |
Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme |
1974 |
Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life" |
1975 |
24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a $25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices |
1976 |
US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use |
1977 |
Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years |
1978 |
42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277 |
1978 |
Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam) |
1978 |
David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73 |
1978 |
Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter) |
1979 |
51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win |
1980 |
Belgium's Marten's government resigns |
1980 |
Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles |
1980 |
Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 |
1981 |
Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands wins a by-election to be elected as a Member of Parliament at Westminster; the law is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in elections |
1981 |
LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0 |
1981 |
US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru |
1982 |
LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record |
1983 |
6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth |
1983 |
Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot |
1984 |
56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley MacLaine win |
1985 |
White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game |
1986 |
"Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character |
1987 |
For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points (1 goal, 6 assists) in a Stanley Cup game and passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ |
1988 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka |
1988 |
Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round |
1988 |
US imposes economic sanctions on Panama |
1989 |
53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283 |
1989 |
Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car |
1989 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
1989 |
Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in NY's 4-3 loss to Clev |
1989 |
Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament |
1989 |
Wash DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions) |
1990 |
"Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV |
1990 |
Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees |
1990 |
NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1 |
1990 |
World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC) |
1991 |
Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR |
1992 |
"Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway |
1992 |
Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman |
1992 |
John Majors, (C) elected PM of England |
1992 |
Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges |
1992 |
Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12) |
1992 |
US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs |
1992 |
William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA |
1993 |
Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos |
1994 |
BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek |
1994 |
STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit |
1995 |
"Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances |
1995 |
59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274 |
1997 |
Cleve Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape |
1997 |
Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion |
1997 |
NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL & possible "World Classic Bowl" |
1999 |
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated. |
2000 |
64th Golf Masters Championship: Vijay Singh wins, shooting a 278 |
2002 |
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets |
2003 |
Baghdad falls to U.S. forces ending the invasion of Iraqi but resulting in widespread looting |
2006 |
70th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 281 |
2011 |
A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands. |
2012 |
The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera |
2013 |
12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan |
2013 |
37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran |
2013 |
13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia |
2013 |
The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage |
2014 |
Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage |
2016 |
North Korea Says It Successfully Tested Missile Engine |
2016 |
Civil rights groups mobilize against Mississippi's 'religious freedom' law |
2016 |
Dennis Hastert 'paid hush money to cover up sex abuse' |
2016 |
Panama papers: Mossack Fonseca offices in El Salvador raided |
2016 |
Springsteen cancels North Carolina concert over 'anti-gay' law |
2017 |
Trump's UN envoy says ouster of al-Assad is a priority of US |
2017 |
Syrian airfield hit by US missiles up and running again |
2017 |
US aircraft carrier-led strike group headed toward Korean Peninsula |
2017 |
Hacker sets off emergency alarms, frightening Dallas residents |
2017 |
Shooting at upscale Florida mall leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded |
2018 |
North Korea tells US that Kim Jong Un ready to discuss nukes |
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