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April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (100th in
leap years ). There are 266 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans ).
475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon ) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysiste christological position.
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz : Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.
1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England .
1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark .
1667 - First public art exhibition opens in Paris .
1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River , claims it for France and names it Louisiana .
1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay in Australia
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 : Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska .
1868 - At Islamgee in Abyssinia , Emperor Theodore massacres at least 197 of his own people.
1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act .
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 Vimy Ridge .
1937 - The Kamikaze Croydon Airport in London - it is the first Japanese -built aircraft to fly to Europe .
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 /Bataan Death March - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula . Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
1945 - World War II : The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Königsberg , in East Prussia , ends.
1945 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission formed
1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas , Oklahoma , and Kansas .
1947 - The 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 segregation in interstate travel.
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán 's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo Colombia (La violencia ).
1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin .
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film , entitled House of Wax 1957 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping
1959 - Mercury program : NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts , which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven ".
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 .
1980 - Israeli troops move into Lebanon
1986 - The government of France rules against the privatization of French automaker Renault .
1989 - April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi , Georgia : An anti-Soviet demonstration was quashed by the Soviet army .
1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union .
1992 - US Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty on drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
1992 - John Major 's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom .
1997 - Lockheed Martin unveils the F-22 Raptor Stealth air superiority fighter .
1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum is located in Andersonville, Georgia , on the site of an old American Civil War POW camp .
1999 - Ismail Omar Guelleh is elected president of Djibouti .
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , President of Niger , is assassinated.
2000 - PASOK wins the national election in Greece .
2002 - Riddle, the most amazing cat in the world, was born.
2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq : Baghdad, Iraq falls to American forces.
2005 - HRH Charles, Prince of Wales weds Camilla Parker Bowles .
Births 1336 - Tamerlane (Timur ), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405 )
1498 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine , French churchman (d. 1550 )
1597 - John Davenport , Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670 )
1648 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway , French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720 )
1649 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth , illegitimate son of Charles II of Great Britain (d. 1685 )
1680 - Philippe Néricault Destouches , French dramatist (d. 1754 )
1686 - James Craggs the Younger , British politician (d. 1721 )
1691 - Johann Matthias Gesner , German classical scholar (d. 1761 )
1757 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth , British admiral (d. 1833 )
1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck , German physicist (d. 1831 )
1773 - Étienne Aignan , French writer (d. 1824 )
1794 - Theobald Boehm , German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881 )
1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel , British engineer (d. 1859 )
1821 - Charles Baudelaire , French poet (d. 1867 )
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge , English-born photographer and motion picture pioneer (d. 1904 )
1835 - King Léopold II of Belgium (d. 1909 )
1865 - Erich Ludendorff , German general in World War I (d. 1937 )
1867 - Chris Watson , third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941 )
1872 - Léon Blum , French prime minister (d. 1950 )
1888 - Sol Hurok , Russian-born impresario (d. 1974 )
1889 - Efrem Zimbalist , Russian violinist (d. 1985 )
1895 - Michel Simon , French actor (d. 1975 )
1897 - John B. Gambling , American radio talk-show host (d. 1974 )
1898 - Curly Lambeau , American football coach, executive (d. 1965 )
1898 - Paul Robeson , American singer and activist (d. 1976 )
1899 - P.L. Travers , Australian author (d. 1996 )
1903 - Ward Bond , American actor (d. 1960 )
1904 - Sharkey Bonano , American musician (d. 1972 )
1905 - J. William Fulbright , U.S. Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995 )
1906 - Antal Dorati , Hungarian conductor (d. 1988 )
1908 - Victor Vasarely , Hungarian-born painter (d. 1997 )
1910 - Abraham Ribicoff , American politician (d. 1998 )
1912 - Lew Kopelew , Russian author (d. 1997 )
1915 - Daniel Johnson, Sr , Quebec politician (d. 1968 )
1917 - Johannes Bobrowski , German lyricist and writer (d. 1965 )
1917 - Brad Dexter , American actor (d. 2002 )
1918 - Jørn Utzon , Danish architect
1919 - J. Presper Eckert , American computer pioneer (d. 1995 )
1921 - Frankie Thomas , American actor (d. 2006 )
1926 - Hugh Hefner , American editor and publisher
1928 - Tom Lehrer , American musician and mathematician
1928 - Paul Arizin , Ameican basketball player (d. 2006 )
1930 - F. Albert Cotton , American chemist (d. 2007 )
1931 - Richard Hatfield , Canadian politician (d. 1991 )
1932 - Jim Fowler , American zoologist
1932 - Armin Jordan , Swiss conductor (d. 2006 )
1932 - Carl Perkins , American musician (d. 1998 )
1932 - Cheeta , animal actor chimpanzee
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo , French actor
1934 - Bill Birch , New Zealand politician
1935 - Avery Schreiber , American actor (d. 2002 )
1937 - Marty Krofft , children's television producer
1938 - Viktor Chernomyrdin , Russian politician
1939 - Michael Learned , American actress
1940 - Jim Roberts , Canadian ice hockey player
1941 - Chu Song-woong , Korean stage actor (d. 1985 )
1942 - Brandon De Wilde , American actor (d. 1972 )
1943 - Terry Knight , American music promoter (Grand Funk Railroad ) (d. 2004 )
1945 - Peter Gammons , baseball journalist
1945 - Steve Gadd , American session drummer
1946 - David Webb , English football player and coach
1948 - Jaya Bachchan , Indian actress
1954 - Dennis Quaid , American actor
1954 - Iain Duncan Smith , British politician
1957 - Seve Ballesteros , Spanish golfer
1961 - Mark Kelly , British keyboard player (Marillion )
1962 - Imran Sherwani , British field hockey player
1964 - Rick Tocchet , Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Rob Awalt , German football player
1965 - Jeff Zucker , American television executive
1965 - Paulina Porizkova , Czechoslovakian-born actress and supermodel
1965 - Jay Wesley Neill , American convicted murderer (d. 2002 )
1966 - Cynthia Nixon , American actress
1967 - Rajendra Yadav , Indian doctor
1971 - Jacques Villeneuve , Canadian race car driver
1974 - Jenna Jameson , American porn star
1975 - Robbie Fowler , English footballer
1977 - Gerard Way , American singer (My Chemical Romance )
1978 - Jorge Andrade , Portuguese footballer
1978 - Rachel Stevens , English singer (S Club )
1978 - Vesna Pisarović , Croatian singer
1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam , American actress
1979 - Albert Hammond, Jr. , American guitarist (The Strokes )
1980 - Yoanna House , American model
1981 - Milan Bartovič , Slovak ice hockey player
1981 - Eric Harris , Columbine High School shooter (d. 1999 )
1981 - Ireneusz Jeleń , Polish footballer
1982 - Carlos Hernández , Costa Rican footballer
1984 - Linda Chung , Hong Kong actress and singer
1985 - Yamashita Tomohisa , Japanese singer
1986 - Brian Larsen , American musician and record producer
1986 - Alison Angel , American amateur pornography actress
1987 - Jesse McCartney , American actor and singer
1990 - Kristen Stewart , American actress
1998 - Elle Fanning , American child actress
Deaths 93 - Yuan An , Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
491 - Zeno , Byzantine Emperor
715 - Pope Constantine
1024 - Pope Benedict VIII
1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099 )
1483 - King Edward IV of England (b. 1442 )
1484 - Edward of Middleham , Prince of Wales (b. 1473 )
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici , Italian statesmen (b. 1449 )
1553 - François Rabelais , French writer
1557 - Mikael Agricola , Finnish scholar (b. 1510 )
1626 - Sir Francis Bacon , English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561 )
1654 - Matei Basarab , Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588 )
1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy , French writer (b. 1618 )
1747 - Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat , Scottish clan chief
1754 - Christian Wolff , German philosopher (b. 1679 )
1761 - William Law , British minister (b. 1686 )
1804 - Jacques Necker , French statesman (b. 1732 )
1806 - William V of Orange , Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul , French chemist (b. 1786 )
1909 - Helena Modrzejewska , Polish-American actress (b. 1840 )
1917 - James Hope Moulton , British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863 )
1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist (b. 1855 )
1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell , British actress (b. 1865 )
1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva , Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920 )
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris , German Nazi leader (b. 1887 )
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer , German theologian (b. 1906 )
1948 - George Carpenter , Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872 )
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (b. 1903 )
1951 - Vilhelm Bjerknes , Norwegian physicist (b. 1862 )
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright , American architect (b. 1867 )
1961 - King Zog of Albania (b. 1895 )
1963 - Eddie Edwards , American jazz trombonist (b. 1891 )
1970 - Gustaf Tenggren , Swedish illustrator (b. 1896 )
1976 - Dagmar Nordstrom , American composer, pianist (b. 1903 )
1976 - Phil Ochs , American singer (b. 1940 )
1982 - Wilfrid Pelletier , French Canadian conductor (b. 1896 )
1988 - Brook Benton , American singer (b. 1931 )
1988 - David Prater , American singer (Sam & Dave ) (b. 1937 )
1991 - Martin Hannett , record producer (b. 1948 )
1996 - Richard Condon , American novelist (b. 1915 )
1996 - James W. Rouse , American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914 )
1997 - Helene Hanff , American writer (b. 1916 )
1997 - Mae Boren Axton , American singer and songwriter (b. 1914 )
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , Niger politician and general (b. 1949 )
1999 - Emiko Kado , wrestler (b. 1976 )
2001 - Willie Stargell , baseball player (b. 1940 )
2002 - Leopold Vietoris , Austrian mathematician (b. 1891 )
2002 - Pat Flaherty , American racecar driver (b. 1926 )
2005 - Andrea Dworkin , American feminist and writer (b. 1946 )
2005 - Scott Mason , Australian cricketer (b. 1976 )
2006 - Billy Hitchcock , baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916 )
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