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This day in history: 9 April

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437 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 April.
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2021: Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.

Holidays and observances

Baghdad Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Christian feast day: Acacius of Amida

Christian feast day: April 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Blessed Thomas of Tolentino

Christian feast day: Casilda of Toledo

Christian feast day: Demetrius of Thessaloniki

Christian feast day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anglicanism, Lutheranism)

Christian feast day: Gaucherius

Christian feast day: Materiana

Christian feast day: Waltrude

Constitution Day (Kosovo)

Day of National Unity (Georgia)

Events

2021Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.

2021Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.

2020Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.

2017The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.

2014A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

2013A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.

2013At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.

2011Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.

2009In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.

2003Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.

1994Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-59.

1992A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.

1991Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.

1990An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants.

1990An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.

1990The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.

1989Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

1981The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.

1980The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

1969The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.

1967The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.

1960Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.

1959Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

1957The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.

1952Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines

1952Japan Air Lines Flight 301 crashes into Mount Mihara, Izu Ōshima, Japan, killing 37.

1948Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terror groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100 Palestinians.

1948Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.

1947The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

1947The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial

1947United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.

1946About 500 postal workers in Tel Aviv and Jaffa went on strike.

1945Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, is executed by the Nazi regime.

1945The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.

1945World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

1945World War II: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force.

1942World War II: An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and the Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire.

1942World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends and the Bataan Death March begins.

1940Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.

1940World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

Born on this day

2004TommyInnit, English YouTuber and streamer

2003Hwang Do-yun, South Korean footballer

2001Nika Mühl, Croatian basketball player

2000Jackie Evancho, American singer

2000Tiago Djaló, Portuguese footballer

1999Lil Nas X, American rapper

1999Rúben Vinagre, Portuguese footballer

1999Stanley Nsoki, French footballer

1998Elle Fanning, American actress

1997Luis Arráez, Venezuelan baseball player

1996Giovani Lo Celso, Argentine footballer

1996Jayden Brailey, Australian rugby league player

1995Demi Vermeulen, Dutch Paralympic equestrian

1995Domagoj Bošnjak, Croatian basketball player

1995Robert Bauer, German-Kazakhstani footballer

1994Bladee, Swedish rapper and singer

1994Joey Pollari, American actor

1993Alexandra Hunt, American politician

1992Raheem Mostert, American football player

1991Gai Assulin, Israeli footballer

1991Mary Killman, American synchronized swimmer

1991Ryan Kelly, American basketball player

1990Kristen Stewart, American actress

1990Ryan Williams, American football player

1989Bianca Belair, American wrestler

1989Danielle Kahle, American figure skater

1988Jeremy Metcalfe, English race car driver

1987Craig Mabbitt, American singer

1987Graham Gano, American football player

1987Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league player

1987Jazmine Sullivan, American singer-songwriter

1987Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter and actor

1987Kassim Abdallah, French-Comorian footballer

1986Leighton Meester, American actress

1986Mike Hart, American football player

1985Antonio Nocerino, Italian footballer

1985David Robertson, American baseball player

1984Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player

1984Habiba Ghribi, Tunisian runner

1984Óscar Razo, Mexican footballer

Died on this day

2025Ray Shero, American ice hockey player and executive (born 1962)

2023Karl Berger, German-American jazz pianist (born 1935)

2022Dwayne Haskins, American football player (born 1997)

2021DMX, American rapper and actor (born 1970)

2021Ian Gibson, British scientist and Labour Party politician (born 1938)

2021Nikki Grahame, British reality-TV icon (born 1982)

2021Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (born 1921)

2021Ramsey Clark, American lawyer (born 1927)

2019Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (born 1926)

2017John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian comedian, writer, and satirist (born 1948)

2016Duane Clarridge, American spy (born 1932)

2016Will Smith, American football player (born 1981)

2015Alexander Dalgarno, English physicist and academic (born 1928)

2015Ivan Doig, American journalist and author (born 1939)

2015Margaret Rule, British marine archaeologist (born 1928)

2015Nina Companeez, French director and screenwriter (born 1937)

2015Paul Almond, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)

2015Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Chinese-American academic (born 1909)

2014Aelay Narendra, Indian politician (born 1946)

2014A. N. R. Robinson, Trinbagonian politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1926)

2014Chris Banks, American football player (born 1973)

2014Gil Askey, American trumpet player, composer, and producer (born 1925)

2014Norman Girvan, Jamaican economist, academic, and politician (born 1941)

2014Rory Ellinger, American lawyer and politician (born 1941)

2014Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Serbian author (born 1933)

2013David Hayes, American sculptor and painter (born 1931)

2013Greg McCrary, American football player (born 1952)

2013McCandlish Phillips, American journalist and author (born 1927)

2013Mordechai Mishani, Israeli lawyer and politician (born 1945)

2013Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (born 1919)

Quote of the day

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?”

Lao Tzu

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