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
- 193 –Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 1585 –The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
- 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.
- 1852 –At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam–God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- 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.
- 1937 –The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
- 1939 –Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
- 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.
- 1961 –The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- 1967 –The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 1968 –Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1975 –The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- 1981 –The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
- 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 –John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
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