About June 9
June 9, 2024 is the 161st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 234 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 9
- 62 –Claudia Octavia is executed.
- 68 –Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 1310 –Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
- 1650 –The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
- 1667 –The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1732 –James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
- 1856 –Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
- 1873 –Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
- 1900 –Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
- 1923 –Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
- 1928 –Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- 1930 –Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- 1954 –McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
- 1959 –The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- 1965 –Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
- 1967 –Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
- 1978 –The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
- 1985 –Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991).
- 1986 –The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 2008 –In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.
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