About October 9

October 9, 2024 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.

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Libra is the sun 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.

What Happened On October 9

  • 1595 –
    The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
  • 1771 –
    The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
  • 1799 –
    Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
  • 1806 –
    Prussia declares war on France.
  • 1845 –
    The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
  • 1873 –
    A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
  • 1874 –
    General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
  • 1934 –
    Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
  • 1941 –
    A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
  • 1962 –
    Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
  • 1966 –
    Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
  • 1966 –
    Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
  • 1967 –
    A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
  • 1969 –
    In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the “Chicago Eight” that began on September 24.
  • 1981 –
    Abolition of capital punishment in France.
  • 1989 –
    An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
  • 2001 –
    Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
  • 2006 –
    North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
  • 2009 –
    First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

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