April 9
April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 266 days remaining.
Events
- 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.
- 1682 - Robert de LaSalle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims it for France and named it Louisiana.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- 1867 - Alaska purchase: By a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- 1913 - The Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opens.
- 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on the Vimy Ridge.
- 1939 - Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after having been refused the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
- 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Bataan - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
- 1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1959 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury 7".
- 1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
- 1969 - The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 - Manuel Noriega is convicted of eight crimes.
- 1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum is dedicated in Andersonville, Georgia, on the site of a American Civil War POW camp.
- 1999 - Ismail Omar Guelleh is elected president of Djibouti.
- 1999 - Nigerian President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is assassinated.
- 2002 - The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon has her funeral at Westminster Abbey.
- 2003 - The Ba'ath regime headed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq is deposed.
Births
- 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer († 1859)
- 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, lyricist († 1867)
- 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, motion picture pioneer († 1904)
- 1835 - King Leopold II of Belgium († 1909)
- 1848 - Helene Lange, teacher († 1930)
- 1897 - John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host (d. 1974)
- 1898 - Paul Robeson, singer, political activist († 1976)
- 1903 - Ward Bond, actor († 1960)
- 1905 - J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas († 1995)
- 1908 - Victor Vasarely, painter († 1997)
- 1912 - Lew Kopelew (Lev Kopelev), author († 1997)
- 1919 - J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer
- 1925 - Heinz Nixdorf, industrialist († 1985)
- 1926 - Hugh Hefner, editor, publisher
- 1928 - Tom Lehrer, musician and satirist
- 1932 - Carl Perkins, country musician († 1998)
- 1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
- 1954 - Dennis Quaid, actor
- 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, United Kingdom MP
- 1975 - Robbie Fowler, football (soccer) striker
- 1981 - Eric Harris, († 1999) one of the Columbine High School massacre gunmen
Deaths
- 491 - Zeno, Byzantine emperor
- 879 - Louis the Stammerer, King of France
- 1553 - Francois Rabelais, writer
- 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, essayist
- 1739 - Dick Turpin, highwayman
- 1804 - Jacques Necker, french statesman, finance minister of Louis XVI
- 1889- Michel-Eugene Chevreul, French chemist, dies at 102
- 1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr
- 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
- 1976 - Phil Ochs, singer
- 1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer
- 2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician
Holidays and observances
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jalál (Glory) - First day of the second month of the Bahá'í Calendar
See Also:
April 8 - April 10 - March 9 - May 9 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Referenced By
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