Notable Historical Events on October 9th
October 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
768 |
Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks. |
869 |
Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen |
1000 |
Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America |
1192 |
Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise |
1238 |
James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia. |
1290 |
Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves |
1446 |
The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea. |
1558 |
Mérida is founded in Venezuela. |
1573 |
Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar |
1595 |
The Spanish army captures Cambrai. |
1597 |
Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort |
1617 |
Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye) |
1621 |
Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin |
1635 |
Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony |
1651 |
English parliament passes Navigation Act |
1655 |
Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow |
1668 |
Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish governor Jose de Paternina |
1701 |
Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven |
1708 |
Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy |
1716 |
Britain & France sign treaty |
1740 |
Dutch governor general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia |
1760 |
7 Years' War: Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS=Sep 28]. |
1771 |
The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland. |
1776 |
Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay |
1794 |
French troops occupy Hertogenbosch |
1799 |
Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast. |
1804 |
Hobart Tasmania founded |
1806 |
Prussia declares war on France. |
1817 |
University of Gent officially opens |
1818 |
Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya |
1820 |
Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador |
1824 |
Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica. |
1831 |
Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion. |
1835 |
The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka. |
1837 |
Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100 |
1837 |
Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. |
1845 |
The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church. |
1854 |
The siege of Sebastopol begins (Crimean War) |
1855 |
Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor |
1855 |
Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, patents first calliope |
1863 |
Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station) |
1864 |
Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions |
1865 |
First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania |
1870 |
Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree |
1872 |
Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business |
1874 |
World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland |
1876 |
1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires |
1877 |
American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland) |
1888 |
Washington Monument opens for public admittance |
1890 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League" |
1899 |
1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa |
1899 |
South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum |
1900 |
8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska |
1903 |
11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC) |
1905 |
Phila A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0 |
1909 |
Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game |
1910 |
Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won |
1914 |
German troops take Antwerp in World War I |
1915 |
Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders |
1915 |
Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY |
1915 |
Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman" premieres in NYC |
1915 |
Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game |
1916 |
Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings |
1920 |
1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1 |
1921 |
Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays |
1926 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution |
1926 |
NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms |
1928 |
Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz" premieres in Paris |
1928 |
NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game |
1928 |
NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series |
1929 |
G Kaufman & R Lardner's musical "June Moon" premieres in NYC |
1930 |
1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls |
1934 |
St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series |
1934 |
Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. |
1936 |
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles |
1938 |
Aaron Copland's & Eugene Loring's ballet "Billy the Kid" premieres in Chicago |
1938 |
Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game |
1938 |
NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win |
1941 |
A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. |
1942 |
Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy. |
1944 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin |
1944 |
Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders |
1944 |
German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam |
1944 |
St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series |
1945 |
British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
1946 |
First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50 |
1946 |
Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC |
1947 |
First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane |
1947 |
Julie Styne & Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes" premieres in NYC for 727 performances |
1948 |
WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series |
1951 |
5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto |
1951 |
Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1 |
1953 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution |
1953 |
Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor |
1954 |
KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
1956 |
10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal |
1957 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1958 |
Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine |
1958 |
NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series |
1958 |
NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series |
1959 |
Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England |
1960 |
Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2") |
1961 |
NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series |
1961 |
Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth |
1961 |
US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police |
1961 |
Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) |
1961 |
Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning |
1961 |
World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1 |
1962 |
Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130 |
1962 |
NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m |
1962 |
Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom |
1963 |
Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) |
1963 |
British premier Harold MacMillan resigns |
1963 |
Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die |
1963 |
French air force gets first nuclear weapons |
1963 |
Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000 |
1965 |
16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England |
1965 |
Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks |
1966 |
Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series |
1966 |
Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It" |
1968 |
Government seizes oil fields in Peru |
1968 |
WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
About 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality' on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People's Democracy—was formed |
1969 |
Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together" |
1970 |
Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence |
1971 |
Japanese emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972 |
"Dude" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1973 |
1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 |
1973 |
Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal |
1973 |
Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors |
1974 |
Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians) |
1974 |
Race riot in Boston due to "bussing" |
1974 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak |
1975 |
Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF |
1975 |
Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1976 |
"Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances |
1976 |
Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt |
1976 |
Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day |
1976 |
Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1 |
1977 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic |
1977 |
Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock |
1977 |
Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31 |
1978 |
12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins |
1978 |
John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom" premieres in NYC |
1979 |
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn |
1980 |
1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville Tn |
1980 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz |
1981 |
Abolition of capital punishment in France. |
1982 |
Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead |
1983 |
Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs |
1983 |
4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma |
1984 |
Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space |
1985 |
"Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs |
1985 |
Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated |
1985 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
"Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London |
1986 |
Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals |
1986 |
Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment |
1987 |
Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000 |
1988 |
17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium |
1988 |
Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series |
1989 |
23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins |
1989 |
27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0) |
1989 |
Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newstands |
1989 |
1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football |
1990 |
David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
1990 |
Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon |
1990 |
Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile |
1990 |
Fear of war and long-term supply disruptions as Hussein threatens Israel |
1991 |
"On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 perfs |
1991 |
Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas |
1991 |
San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3 |
1991 |
Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1992 |
Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to NY |
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 |
1994 |
Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right) |
1994 |
Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt, Germany |
1996 |
Howard Stern's book "Miss America" released in paperback |
1997 |
ABL players allowed to own stock in the league |
1997 |
Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico |
1997 |
NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires |
1997 |
NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties |
1997 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo |
1999 |
The last flight of the SR-71. |
2001 |
Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack. |
2006 |
North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. |
2007 |
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high. |
2009 |
First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. |
2012 |
25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel |
2012 |
Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics |
2013 |
60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic |
2013 |
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems |
2014 |
Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature |
2016 |
2 Police Officers Are Shot and Killed in Palm Springs, Calif. |
2016 |
Saudi-Led Airstrikes Blamed for Massacre at Funeral in Yemen |
2016 |
Turkish military says 31 Islamic State militants killed in northern Syria |
2016 |
Derailed train injures 15 to 20, disrupts service on Long Island, New York |
2016 |
Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew's wake |
2016 |
Russia vetoes UN demand for end to bombing of Syria's Aleppo |
2017 |
North Korea's 'princess' now one of the secretive state's top policy makers |
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