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
- 1446 –The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 1514 –Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1635 –Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
- 1740 –Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
- 1776 –Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1804 –Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- 1834 –Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
- 1941 –A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- 1942 –The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 4th Infantry Regiment.
- 1966 –Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
- 1986 –The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- 1991 –Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1995 –An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
- 1999 –The last flight of the SR-71.
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