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
- 475 –Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
- 1388 –Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
- 1609 –Eighty Years’ War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
- 1945 –World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
- 1947 –The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 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.
- 1961 –The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- 1965 –Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1967 –The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 1968 –Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1969 –The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
- 1975 –8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- 1989 –The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
- 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.
- 1992 –John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
- 2011 –A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
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