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 160^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 27, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 485,952 hours 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 ‘hectahexacontagon’ 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 253 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 4,553 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 9 Historical Events

• 1534 –
  Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
• 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.
• 1772 –
  The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1946 –
  King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world’s longest reigning monarch.
• 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?”
• 2008 –
  In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

Who were born on June 9?

• 1595 –
  King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• 1939 –
  Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
• 1945 –
  Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1951 –
  Dave Parker, American baseball player
• 1964 –
  Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
• 1967 –
  Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster
• 1968 –
  Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
• 1980 –
  Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1982 –
  Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
• 1984 –
  Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player

Who died on June 9?

• 68 –
  Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
• 439 –
  Spearthrower Owl, Maya ruler of Teotihuacan (Mexico)
• 1912 –
  Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
• 1974 –
  Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
• 1981 –
  Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1994 –
  Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 2004 –
  Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (b. 1945)
• 2004 –
  Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2006 –
  Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
• 2009 –
  Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver (b. 1930)