About April 9
April 9, 2022 is the 99th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 288 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 9
- 1241 –Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
- 1413 –Henry V is crowned King of England.
- 1440 –Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
- 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.
- 1867 –Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- 1909 –The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
- 1918 –The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island’s east coast.
- 1945 –The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
- 1945 –World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
- 1959 –Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- 1961 –The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- 1965 –Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1967 –The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 1975 –8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- 1980 –The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
- 1992 –A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
- 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.
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