About April 9
April 9, 2021 is the 99th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 298 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 9
- 193 –Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 475 –Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
- 1413 –Henry V is crowned King of England.
- 1440 –Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
- 1682 –Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
- 1909 –The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
- 1914 –Mexican Revolution: One of the world’s first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
- 1917 –World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
- 1918 –The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1945 –The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
- 1945 –World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
- 1947 –The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1952 –Hugo Ballivian’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
- 1965 –Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1967 –The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 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.
- 1992 –John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
- 2005 –Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
- 2011 –A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
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