About October 9
October 9, 2025 is the 282nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 131 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 9
- 768 –Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
- 1264 –The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
- 1446 –The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 1514 –Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1708 –Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1776 –Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1799 –Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- 1812 –War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1874 –General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
- 1911 –An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- 1914 –World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
- 1934 –Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- 1942 –Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
- 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.
- 1986 –The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- 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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