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.
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What Happened On October 9
- 1264 –The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
- 1514 –Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1595 –The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
- 1604 –Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1708 –Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1771 –The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
- 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.
- 1913 –Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- 1919 –Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 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.
- 1962 –Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 1966 –Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
- 1970 –The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 1981 –Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1999 –The last flight of the SR-71.
- 2001 –Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
- 2003 –Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
- 2006 –North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
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