June
9
Events
June 9
411 BC –
Coup in Athens succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
53 – Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
62 – Claudia Octavia is executed.
68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's
Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the
civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
1310 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the
early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the
Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the
Saint Lawrence River.
1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two
administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the
first legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It
lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the
Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony
of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture
the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of
Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle
of Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political
situation is set.
1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west
for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled
handcarts.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful
Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port
Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by
militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open
for only 16 days.
1885 – A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War,
with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day
Vietnam - to France.
1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence
movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary
of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling
of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George
Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappear, possibly
having first made it to the top.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific
flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during
rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent
Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to
Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and
balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for
maquisards attacks.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and
the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland
since 1941.
1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand.
He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under
the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado
spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits
in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
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 giving McCarthy
the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense
of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport,
(LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first
submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1965 – Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat
resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen
Cao Ky.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national
day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert
F. Kennedy.
1973 – Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens
its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old
policy excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney (New South Wales,
Australia) kills seven.
1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not
be released until 1991).
1986 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space
Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO
sign a peace treaty.
2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains
as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake
back.
Holidays
and observances
International
Archives Day
Anniversary of the Ascension of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
Christian Feast Day:
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Lutheranism)
Columba, Abbot of Iona: Ireland and Scotland, 597 CE Anglicanism
Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
Primus and Felician
June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
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