June 9

Events

Pre-1600

* 411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
* 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
* 68 – Nero 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.
* 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
* 747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
* 1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
* 1523 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary ''Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia'' by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
* 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.

1601–1900

* 1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
*1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
* 1772 – The British schooner ''Gaspee'' is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
* 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
*1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
* 1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
*1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
* 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater.
* 1885 – Treaty 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.
*1900 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.

1901–present

*1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the .
*1922 – Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.
* 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
*1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the ''Southern Cross''.
*1930 – A ''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.
*1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
* 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
* 1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
* 1953 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
*1954 – Joseph 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?"
*1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
*1959 – The is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
*1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
* 1965 – Vietnam 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.
* 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
* 1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
*1972 – Severe 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.
* 1973 – In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
*1978 – The 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.
* 1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
*1995 – Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
* 1999 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
*2008 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
*2009 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
*2010 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1016 – Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 1034)
* 1424 – Blanche II of Navarre (d. 1464)
*1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Belgian poet and scholar (d. 1655)
*1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (d. 1666)
*1595 – Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (d. 1648)
* 1597 – Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Dutch painter (d. 1665)

1601–1900

*1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
*1661 – Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
* 1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
* 1686 – Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1747)
* 1696 – Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (d. 1726)
*1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1791)
* 1754 – Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados (d. 1815)
*1768 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1835)
* 1781 – George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (d. 1848)
* 1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)
*1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (d. 1910)
*1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)
*1837 – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (d. 1919)
*1842 – Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (d. 1918)
* 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
* 1845 – Frank Norton, American baseball player (d. 1920)
* 1849 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (d. 1927)
* 1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (d. 1921)
*1861 – Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
* 1861 – Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
*1864 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (d. 1928)
* 1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (d. 1914)
* 1865 – Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
*1868 – Jane Avril, French model and dancer (d. 1943)
* 1874 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (d. 1930)
*1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
* 1879 – Harry DeBaecke, American rower (d. 1961)
*1882 – Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1963)
* 1885 – Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
*1890 – Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1952)
* 1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
*1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
* 1895 – Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (d. 1981)
* 1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
*1900 – Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (d. 1984)

1901–present

* 1902 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
* 1903 – Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (d. 1953)
* 1903 – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (d. 1996)
* 1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997)
* 1908 – Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (d. 1993)
* 1908 – Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)
* 1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1990)
* 1910 – Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (d. 1984)
*1912 – Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1970)
*1915 – Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
* 1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
* 1916 – Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (d. 2006)
* 1916 – Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (d. 1943)
* 1916 – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
* 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012)
* 1918 – John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (d. 2011)
*1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)
* 1921 – Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2015)
*1922 – George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
* 1922 – Hein Eersel, Surinamese linguist and Minister of Education (d. 2022)
* 1922 – John Gillespie Magee Jr., Anglo-American pilot and poet (d. 1941)
* 1922 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
* 1923 – Gerald Götting

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