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What Happened on October 9th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.
2016	The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
2012	Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
2009	First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2007	The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises.
2006	North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
1995	An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1992	The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
1986	The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
1986	Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network.
1984	The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
1983	South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
1981	President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
1980	Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1970	The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1969	In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
1967	A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1966	Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
1963	In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
1962	Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1950	The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
1942	Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
1941	A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1937	Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
1936	Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1934	An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
1919	The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
1918	The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
1914	World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
1913	The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1911	An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
1900	The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1874	The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
1873	A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1864	American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
1861	American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens at the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
1854	Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
1847	Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
1834	Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1831	Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of the Kingdom of Greece, is assassinated.
1825	Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
1820	Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1812	War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1806	Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
1804	Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1799	HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1790	A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
1760	Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
1740	Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
1708	Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1701	The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
1635	Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1604	Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
1594	Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1446	The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1410	The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
1238	James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
768	Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.

Famous People Born on October 9

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Year	Name
1922	Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (d. 1997)
1980	Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
1945	Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
1941	Omali Yeshitela, political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement
1955	Peter Saville, English graphic designer and art director
1890	Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)
1899	Bruce Catton, American historian and author (d. 1978)
1623	Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688)
1935	Don McCullin, English photographer and journalist
1940	Gordon J. Humphrey, American soldier, pilot, and politician

Famous People Deaths On October 9

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 9. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1831	Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1944	Stefanina Moro, Italian partisan (b. 1927)
1941	Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1613	Henry Constable, English poet (b. 1562)
2014	Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1929)
2003	Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926)
680	Ghislain, Frankish anchorite and saint
1958	Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
1581	Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)
1969	Don Hoak, American baseball player (b. 1928)