About April 9
April 9, 2024 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 9
- 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.
- 1860 –On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
- 1867 –Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- 1914 –Mexican Revolution: One of the world’s first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1918 –World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
- 1937 –The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
- 1939 –Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
- 1940 –World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
- 1945 –World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
- 1948 –Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
- 1952 –Hugo Ballivian’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
- 1959 –Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- 1967 –The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 1969 –The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1975 –The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- 1981 –The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
- 1992 –John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
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