October 9

Events

Pre-1600

* 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
* 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
* 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
* 1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
* 1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.

1601–1900

* 1604 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
* 1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
* 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
* 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
* 1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
* 1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
* 1790 – A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
*1799 – sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
*1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
* 1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
*1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: and .
* 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
* 1825 – '' Restauration'' arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
* 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of the Kingdom of Greece, is assassinated.
* 1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
* 1847 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
*1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
*1861 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens at the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
*1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
* 1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
* 1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
*1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

1901–present

* 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
* 1913 – The steamship catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
*1914 – World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
* 1918 – The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
*1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
*1934 – An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
*1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
* 1937 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
*1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
* 1942 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
* 1950 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
* 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
*1963 – In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
* 1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
* 1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
*1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
* 1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
*1981 – President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
* 1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
* 1984 – The popular children's television show ''Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends'', based on ''The Railway Series'' by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
*1986 – ''The Phantom of the Opera'', eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
* 1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network.
*1992 – The Peekskill meteorite, a meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
*1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
*2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
* 2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises.
*2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
*2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
*2016 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
* 2019 – Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

Births

Pre-1600

*1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (d. 1274)
*1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290)
* 1261 – Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
* 1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
* 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638)
* 1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632)
*1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (d. 1674)

1601–1900

* 1609 – Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688)
* 1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688)
*1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
* 1757 – Charles X of France (d. 1836)
*1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878)
* 1826 – Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (d. 1909)
*1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (d. 1921)
*1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902)
* 1840 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (d. 1905)
*1845 – Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (d. 1918)
* 1850 – Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (d. 1930)
* 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
* 1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)
* 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (d. 1935)
* 1863 – Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (d. 1930)
*1864 – Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (d. 1927)
* 1871 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (d. 1940)
* 1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1944)
* 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
* 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939)
* 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (d. 1947)
* 1877 – Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1928)
* 1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
* 1880 – Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)
*1883 – Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (d. 1956)
* 1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)
* 1888 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1938)
* 1888 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1959)
*1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)
*1892 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
* 1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (d. 1945)
* 1897 – M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (d. 1987)
* 1898 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (d. 1987)
* 1898 – Joe Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1990)
* 1899 – Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978)
*1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
* 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976)
* 1900 – Joseph Zubin

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