About October 9
October 9, 2024 is the 283rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 112 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 9
- 1264 –The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
- 1514 –Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1595 –The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
- 1635 –Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
- 1806 –Prussia declares war on France.
- 1820 –Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- 1845 –The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1874 –General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
- 1911 –An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- 1913 –Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- 1914 –World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
- 1966 –Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
- 1970 –The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 1981 –Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1991 –Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 2006 –North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
- 2009 –First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
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