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This day in history: 9 October

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393 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 October.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
1914: World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Abraham

Christian feast day: Denis of Paris

Christian feast day: Dionysius the Areopagite

Christian feast day: Ghislain

Christian feast day: Gunther of Bohemia

Christian feast day: Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias

Christian feast day: John Henry Newman

Christian feast day: John Leonardi

Christian feast day: Luis Beltran

Christian feast day: October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Robert Grosseteste (Church of England)

Christian feast day: Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church in the United States)

Events

1914World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.

1966Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.

1967A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

1861American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.

1683Allied Imperial and Polish-Lithuanian forces defeat the retreating Ottoman forces in the battle of Parkany.

1969In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".

2012Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.

1779American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.

1962Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

1980Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.

1812War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.

1986The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.

2007The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.

1806Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.

1760Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.

1708Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

1941A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.

1701The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1986Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.

1900The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

1984The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.

1936Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

1995An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.

1594Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.

2024Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.

1981President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.

1934An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.

1919The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.

1983South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma, but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.

1804Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.

1410The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.

1635Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.

1820Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.

1963In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.

1918The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as King of Finland, but he never accedes to the throne due to Germany's defeat in World War I.

1970The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

1238James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.

1831Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.

1911An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.

1604Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.

Born on this day

2002Ben Shelton, American tennis player

2001Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer

2000Penei Sewell, American football player

1997Jharrel Jerome, American actor

1997Megan Moroney, American singer-songwriter.

1996Bella Hadid, American model

1996Jacob Batalon, Filipino-American actor

1994Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

1993Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player

1993George Kittle, American football player

1993Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player

1993Lauren Davis, American tennis player

1993Scotty McCreery, American singer and songwriter

1993Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster

1992Jerian Grant, American basketball player

1992Sam Mewis, American soccer player

1992Tyler James Williams, American actor

1990Jake Lamb, American baseball player

1990Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer

1989Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player

1988David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player

1988Starling Marte, Dominican baseball player

1987Craig Brackins, American basketball player

1987Henry Walker, American basketball player

1987Samantha Murray Sharan, British tennis player

1986David Phelps, American baseball player

1986Derek Holland, American baseball player

1986Jan Christian Vestre, Norwegian businessman and politician

1986Laure Manaudou, French swimmer

1986Stephane Zubar, French footballer

1985David Plummer, American swimmer

1984Marie Kondo, Japanese author and television presenter

1983Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver

1983Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer

1983Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter

1983Spencer Grammer, American actress

1983Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player

1983Trevor Daley, Canadian ice hockey player

1981Darius Miles, American basketball player

1981Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor

Died on this day

2024Clark R. Rasmussen, American politician (born 1934)

2024Dieter Burdenski, German footballer (born 1950)

2024George Baldock, British-born Greek international footballer (born 1993)

2024Lee Wei Ling, Singaporean neurologist (born 1955)

2024Leif Segerstam, Finnish conductor and composer (born 1944)

2024Lily Ebert, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (born 1923)

2024Ratan Tata, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1937)

2017Jean Rochefort, French actor (born 1930)

2016Andrzej Wajda, Polish film and theatre director (born 1926)

2015Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1926)

2015Ravindra Jain, Indian composer and director (born 1944)

2015Ray Duncan, American businessman (born 1930)

2015Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)

2014Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (born 1929)

2014Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (born 1925)

2014Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (born 1957)

2014Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (born 1921)

2014Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (born 1936)

2013Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (born 1925)

2013Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (born 1933)

2013Srihari, Indian actor (born 1964)

2013Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1936)

2012Harris Savides, American cinematographer (born 1957)

2012Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (born 1923)

2012Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (born 1992)

2011Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (born 1989)

2010Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

2009Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (born 1934)

2009John Daido Loori, American Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher (born 1931)

2009Stuart M. Kaminsky, American author and educator (born 1934)

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