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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.
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768 Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
1446 The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 Mιrida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1595 The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks 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.
1708 Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1760 Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
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.
1804 Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 Prussia declares war on France.
1812 War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
1834 Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1845 The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1873 A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1907 Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
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 generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 World War II: Battle of Britain During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1962 Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
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.
1966 Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
1966 Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1991 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill 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.
1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2003 Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program
End of C/P..
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events : C/P.
768 Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
1446 The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 Mιrida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1595 The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks 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.
1708 Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1760 Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
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.
1804 Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 Prussia declares war on France.
1812 War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
1834 Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1845 The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1873 A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1907 Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
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 generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 World War II: Battle of Britain During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1962 Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
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.
1966 Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
1966 Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1991 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill 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.
1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2003 Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program
End of C/P..