About April 9
April 9, 2025 is the 99th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 314 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 9
- 193 –Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 475 –Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
- 1413 –Henry V is crowned King of England.
- 1511 –St John’s College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
- 1585 –The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
- 1609 –Eighty Years’ War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
- 1852 –At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam–God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
- 1947 –The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1947 –The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court’s 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
- 1959 –Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- 1961 –The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- 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 –8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- 1975 –The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- 1992 –A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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