What are the important events that happened on June 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 9 is the 161st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 27, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,631,520 minutes 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 ‘hectahexacontahenagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 234 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 4,188 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 9 Historical Events
- 721 –Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
- 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.
- 1815 –End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 1968 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- 1974 –Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
- 1985 –Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991).
- 1999 –Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
Who were born on June 9?
- 1781 –George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
- 1882 –Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
- 1911 –George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
- 1916 –Jurij Brězan, Sorbian writer (d. 2006)
- 1922 –John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
- 1934 –Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1939 –Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
- 1962 –Yuval Banai, Israeli musician and singer (Mashina)
- 1970 –Robert W. Brown II, American lawyer and entrepreneur
- 1980 –D'banj, Nigerian singer, songwriter and harmonica player
Who died on June 9?
- 373 –Ephrem the Syrian, Syriac Christian hymnodist (b. 306)
- 439 –Spearthrower Owl, Maya ruler of Teotihuacan (Mexico)
- 1361 –Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
- 1563 –William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
- 1583 –Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. c.1525)
- 1892 –William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
- 1959 –Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
- 2000 –John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
- 2003 –Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b. 1920)
- 2011 –M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)
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