What are the important events that happened on October 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 9 is the 283rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 26, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,807,200 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 ‘dihectaoctacontatrigon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 112 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 4,310 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 9 Historical Events
- 1604 –Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1919 –Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 1967 –A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- 1969 –In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the “Chicago Eight” that began on September 24.
- 1981 –Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1986 –The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- 2001 –Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
- 2009 –First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Who were born on October 9?
- 1892 –Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1907 –Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
- 1931 –Homer Smith, American football coach (d. 2011)
- 1953 –Tony Shalhoub, American actor
- 1965 –Jimbo Fisher, American college football coach
- 1971 –Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
- 1972 –Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
- 1973 –Erin Daniels, American actress
- 1979 –Brandon Routh, American actor
- 1983 –Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
Who died on October 9?
- 1831 –Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
- 1900 –Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- 1934 –Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
- 1950 –George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
- 1958 –Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
- 1962 –Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
- 1967 –André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
- 1996 –Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
- 2001 –Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
- 2011 –Pavel Karelin, Russian skijumper (b. 1989)
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