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, 1,728,432,000 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 ‘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
- 768 –Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
- 1446 –The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 1514 –Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1604 –Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1708 –Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
- 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.
- 1962 –Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 1967 –A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- 1989 –An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
Who were born on October 9?
- 1221 –Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290)
- 1261 –King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
- 1586 –Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
- 1893 –Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
- 1920 –Yusef Lateef, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator
- 1922 –Fyvush Finkel, American actor
- 1944 –Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
- 1957 –Ini Kamoze, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1969 –Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater
- 1987 –Bill Walker, American basketball player
Who died on October 9?
- 1273 –Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
- 1691 –William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
- 1793 –Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
- 1897 –Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
- 1924 –Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
- 1937 –Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
- 1962 –Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
- 1972 –Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1996 –Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
- 2002 –Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
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