April 9

April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 266 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
• 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.
• 1682 - Robert de LaSalle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims it for France and named it Louisiana.
• 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: By a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
• 1913 - The Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opens.
• 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
• 1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on the Vimy Ridge.
• 1939 - Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after having been refused the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
• 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Bataan - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
• 1947 - A series of tornadoes hits Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas killing 169 and injuring 1,300.
• 1959 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury 7".
• 1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
• 1969 - The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 - Manuel Noriega is convicted of eight crimes.
• 1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum is dedicated in Andersonville, Georgia, on the site of a American Civil War POW camp.
• 1999 - Ismail Omar Guelleh is elected president of Djibouti.
• 1999 - Nigerian President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is assassinated.
• 2002 - The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon has her funeral at Westminster Abbey.
• 2003 - The Ba'ath regime headed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq is deposed.

Births

• 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer († 1859)
• 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, lyricist († 1867)
• 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, motion picture pioneer († 1904)
• 1835 - King Leopold II of Belgium († 1909)
• 1848 - Helene Lange, teacher († 1930)
• 1898 - Paul Robeson, singer, political activist († 1976)
• 1903 - Ward Bond, actor († 1960)
• 1905 - J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas († 1995)
• 1908 - Victor Vasarely, painter († 1997)
• 1912 - Lew Kopelew (Lev Kopelev), author († 1997)
• 1919 - J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer
• 1925 - Heinz Nixdorf, industrialist († 1985)
• 1926 - Hugh Hefner, editor, publisher
• 1928 - Tom Lehrer, musician and satirist
• 1932 - Carl Perkins, country musician († 1998)
• 1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
• 1954 - Dennis Quaid, actor
• 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, United Kingdom MP
• 1981 - Eric Harris, († 1999) one of the Columbine High School massacre gunmen

Deaths

• 491 - Zeno, Byzantine emperor
• 879 - Louis the Stammerer, King of France
• 1553 - Francois Rabelais, writer
• 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, essayist
• 1739 - Dick Turpin, highwayman
• 1804 - Jacques Necker, french statesman, finance minister of Louis XVI
• 1889- Michel-Eugene Chevreul, French chemist, dies at 102
• 1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr
• 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
• 1976 - Phil Ochs, singer
• 1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer
• 2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician

Holidays and observances

• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jalál (Glory) - First day of the second month of the Bahá'í Calendar

---

See Also:

April 8 - April 10 - March 9 - May 9 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n

This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.