June 9
June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (161st in
leap years), with 205 days remaining.
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68 -
Roman Emperor Nero commits
suicide, imploring his secretary
Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a
Senate-imposed death by
flogging.
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1310 -
Duccio's
Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in
Siena Italy.
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1534 -
Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the
St. Lawrence River.
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1732 -
James Oglethorpe is granted a
royal charter for the colony of
Georgia.
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1772 - British vessel
Gaspee is burned off of
Rhode Island.
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1790 -
Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first
book to be
copyrighted in the
United States.
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1815 - End of the
Congress of Vienna: new
European political situation is set.
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1856 - 500
Mormons leave
Iowa City, Iowa and head west for
Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
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1860 -
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first
dime novel to be published.
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1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Brandy Station,
Virginia.
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1909 -
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from
Hackensack,
New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a
Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from
Manhattan,
New York to
San Francisco,
California.
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1915 - U.S. Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the
RMS Lusitania sinking.
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1922 - First ringing of the
Harkness Memorial Chime at
Yale University.
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1923 -
Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a
coup.
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1930 -
Chicago Tribune reporter
Jake Lingle is killed at the
Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the
Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000
USD gambling debt owed to
Al Capone.
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1934 -
Donald Duck debuts in
The Wise Little Hen.
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1935 -
Ho-Umezu Agreement:
China, under
KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
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1935 -
Alcoholics Anonymous founded when
Dr. Bob Smith had his last drink on June 9, 1935.
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1944 - World War II: The
Soviet Union invades
East Karelia and the
previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by
Finland.
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1946 - King
Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of
Thailand*
1953 -
Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in
Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
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1954 -
McCarthyism:
Joseph Welch, special counsel for the
United States Army, lashes out at
Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether
Communism has infiltrated the Army.
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1957 - First ascent of
Broad Peak (12th highest
mountain).
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1959 - The
USS George Washington is launched as the first
submarine to carry
ballistic missiles.
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1973 -
Secretariat wins the
Triple Crown.
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1978 -
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the
priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
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1983 -
Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her
Conservative Party.
Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.
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1985 -
Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in
Lebanon (he was not released until
1991).
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1986 - The
Rogers Commission releases its report on the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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1991 - The congress of the
Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the
Communist Refoundation Party.
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1999 -
Kosovo War:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
NATO sign a
peace treaty.
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2006 -
BYU officials announce the reopening of the
Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center.
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1508 -
Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d.
1586)
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1580 -
Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d.
1655)
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1588 -
Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d.
1666)
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1595 - King
Wladislaus IV of Poland (d.
1648)
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1640 -
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1705)
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1661 - Tsar
Feodor III of Russia (d.
1682)
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1672 - Tsar
Peter I of Russia (d.
1725)
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1686 -
Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d.
1747)
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1768 -
Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d.
1835)
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1810 -
Otto Nicolai, German composer (d.
1849)
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1812 -
Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d.
1910)
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1843 -
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1914)
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1845 -
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d.
1914)
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1849 -
Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d.
1927)
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1851 -
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d.
1921)
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1865 -
Albéric Magnard, French composer (d.
1914)
* 1865 -
Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d.
1931)
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1875 -
Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1968)
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1882 -
Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d.
1963)
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1890 -
Leslie Banks, British actor (d.
1952)
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1891 -
Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d.
1964)
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1898 -
Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d.
1952)
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1900 -
Fred Waring, American bandleader (d.
1984)
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1915 -
Les Paul, influential American guitarist
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1916 -
Robert McNamara,
United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
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1921 -
Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d.
2006)
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1922 -
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d.
1941)
* 1922 -
Fernand Séguin, French Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d.
1988)
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1925 -
Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d.
1993)
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1929 -
Johnny Ace, American R&B singer (d.
1954)
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1930 -
Barbara, French singer (d.
1997)
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1931 -
Jackie Mason, American comedian
* 1931 -
Joe Santos, American actor
* 1931 -
Bill Virdon, Major league baseball player and manager
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1934 -
Jackie Wilson, American soul and R&B singer (d.
1984)
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1937 -
Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
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1939 -
Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
* 1939 -
Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
* 1939 -
Charles Webb, author
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1941 -
Jon Lord, organist in
Deep Purple*
1943 -
Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
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1945 -
Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d.
1994)
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1945 -
Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
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1947 -
Kiran Bedi, The First Lady
Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer
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1951 -
Dave Parker, Major league baseball player
* 1951 -
James Newton Howard, Film composer
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1952 -
Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
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1954 -
George Pérez, American comic book artist
* 1954 -
Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
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1956 -
Patricia Cornwell, American author
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1961 -
Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
* 1961 -
Aaron Sorkin, American writer
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1963 -
Johnny Depp, American actor
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1964 -
Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
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1972 -
Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
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1973 -
Tedy Bruschi, American football player
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1975 -
Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
* 1975 -
Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
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1977 -
Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
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1978 -
Matthew Bellamy, British musician (
Muse)
* 1978 -
Miroslav Klose, German footballer
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1980 -
Mike Fontenot, professional baseball player
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1981 -
Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
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1983 -
Alektra Blue, American porn star
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1984 -
Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
* 1984 -
Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
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1986 -
Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
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1993 -
Danielle Chuchran, American child actress
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62 -
Claudia Octavia, wife of
Nero (b.
40)
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68 -
Nero,
Roman Emperor (b.
37)
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373 -
Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
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597 -
St. Columba, Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland (b.
521)
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630 - King
Shahrbaraz of Persia*
1361 -
Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b.
1291)
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1563 -
William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b.
1506)
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1572 -
Jeanne d'Albret,
Queen of Navarre (b.
1528)
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1583 -
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
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1656 -
Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b.
1572)
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1716 -
Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
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1717 -
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b.
1648)
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1870 -
Charles Dickens, English author (b.
1812)
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1875 -
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b.
1795)
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1892 -
William Stairs, Canadian explorer (b.
1863)
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1946 -
Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b.
1925)
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1952 -
Adolf Busch, German composer (b.
1891)
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1958 -
Robert Donat, English actor (b.
1905)
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1959 -
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1876)
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1961 -
Camille Guérin, French scientist (b.
1872)
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1964 -
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b.
1879)
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1974 -
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
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1981 -
Allen Ludden, TV Game Show Host
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1989 -
George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1903)
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1991 -
Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b.
1903)
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1993 -
Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b.
1921)
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1994 -
Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
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1997 -
Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b.
1908)
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2004 -
Rosey Brown, American football player (b.
1932)
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2006 -
Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b.
1946)
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Roman Empire paganism - third day of the
Vestalia in honor of the goddess
VestaLiturgical feasts
Catholicism *
Saint Alexander, martyr [GTZ: Russia]
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Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
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Blessed Columba, abbot, confessor [GTZ: Scotland]
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Saint Diomedes *
Saint Edmund, bishop of Canturbury, confessor (Translation day) [GTZ: England]
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Saint Efrem=
Saint Ephraim, deacon,
Doctor of the Church *
Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor [GTZ: LeMans]
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Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs [common]
* Blessed Richard,
bishop of Andria, Apulia
* Saint Vincent, deacon, martyr [BLS]
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Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr [BLS]
* Blessed
Diana d'Andalo*
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