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.
- 1511 –St John’s College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
- 1585 –The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1916 –World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1937 –The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
- 1940 –World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- 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.
- 1965 –Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1967 –The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
- 1968 –Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1969 –The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
- 1981 –The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
- 2009 –In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
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