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 160th 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, 1,749,427,200 seconds 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.
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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.
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June 9 Historical Events
- 53 –Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
- 721 –Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
- 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.
- 1900 –Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
- 1923 –Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
- 1953 –Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
- 1965 –Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
- 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?
- 1890 –Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
- 1906 –Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and entrepreneur (d. 1997)
- 1929 –Johnny Ace, American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954)
- 1930 –Monique Andrée Serf, French singer (d. 1997)
- 1931 –Joe Santos, American actor
- 1954 –Gregory Maguire, American novelist
- 1963 –Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist and political activist
- 1970 –Robert W. Brown II, American lawyer and entrepreneur
- 1984 –Aruni Kashyap, Indian poet
- 1985 –Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
Who died on June 9?
- 62 –Claudia Octavia, wife of Roman Emperor Nero (b. 40)
- 597 –Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary (b. 521)
- 1563 –William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
- 1656 –Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
- 1717 –Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
- 1834 –William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
- 1946 –Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII], King of Thailand (b. 1925)
- 1993 –Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
- 2000 –Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
- 2011 –M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)
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