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 282^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 26, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,332,800 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 ‘dihectaoctacontadigon’ 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 131 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 4,675 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 9 Historical Events

• 768 –
  Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
• 1740 –
  Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
• 1831 –
  Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
• 1834 –
  Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
• 1913 –
  Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 1940 –
  World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
• 1941 –
  A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• 1992 –
  A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
• 2001 –
  Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.

Who were born on October 9?

• 1581 –
  Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
• 1796 –
  Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
• 1871 –
  Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar (d. 1922)
• 1873 –
  Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
• 1941 –
  Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
• 1946 –
  Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1970 –
  Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
• 1975 –
  Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
• 1987 –
  Bill Walker, American basketball player
• 1993 –
  Scotty McCreery, American singer

Who died on October 9?

• 1273 –
  Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
• 1581 –
  Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
• 1793 –
  Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
• 1900 –
  Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
• 1950 –
  George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
• 1955 –
  Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1962 –
  Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
• 1985 –
  Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1989 –
  Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 2006 –
  Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)