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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 27, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,728 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 ‘hectagon’ day.
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 295 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 4,127 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 9 Historical Events
- 193 –Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 1388 –Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
- 1413 –Henry V is crowned King of England.
- 1682 –Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
- 1782 –American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
- 1945 –The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
- 1948 –Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
- 1959 –Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- 1975 –8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- 2005 –Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
Who were born on April 9?
- 1901 –Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1915 –Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian politician (d. 1968)
- 1921 –Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
- 1922 –Carl Amery, German writer (d. 2005)
- 1957 –Brian Alexander, British broadcaster
- 1961 –Kirk McCaskill, pro baseball and hockey player
- 1964 –Margaret Peterson Haddix, American author
- 1985 –Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese actor and singer (NEWS)
- 1986 –Leighton Meester, American singer and actress
- 1987 –Craig Mabbitt, American singer (Escape the Fate)
Who died on April 9?
- 93 –Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
- 491 –Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
- 1747 –Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
- 1761 –William Law, British minister (b. 1686)
- 1909 –Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
- 1922 –Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidoterist (b. 1866)
- 1948 –Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
- 1970 –Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
- 1982 –Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
- 1996 –James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
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