What are the important events that happened on April 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 9 is the 100th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 27, 2016 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,460,160,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 294 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,205 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 9 Historical Events
- 1682 –Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
- 1852 –At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam–God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.
- 1860 –On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1918 –The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1947 –The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1965 –Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1980 –The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
- 2009 –In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
- 2011 –A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
Who were born on April 9?
- 1648 –Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
- 1904 –Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
- 1937 –Marty Krofft, Canadian television producer
- 1944 –Joe Brinkman, American Major League Umpire
- 1963 –Joe Scarborough, American television personality
- 1963 –Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
- 1977 –Gerard Way, American singer (My Chemical Romance)
- 1979 –Keith Nobbs, American actor
- 1984 –Linda Chung, Canadian/Hong Kong actress and singer
- 1987 –Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
Who died on April 9?
- 1484 –Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)
- 1626 –Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
- 1693 –Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
- 1963 –Eddie Edwards, American jazz tromboner (b. 1891)
- 1980 –Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Islamic philosopher and economist (b. 1935)
- 1996 –Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
- 1998 –Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
- 1999 –Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
- 2010 –Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian track and field athlete (b. 1932)
- 2010 –Zoltán Varga, Hungarian footballer (b. 1945)
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