About October 9
October 9, 2023 is the 282nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 124 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 9
- 768 –Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
- 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.
- 1558 –Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
- 1776 –Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1799 –Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- 1806 –Prussia declares war on France.
- 1820 –Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- 1834 –Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 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.
- 1888 –The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1934 –Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- 1942 –The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 4th Infantry Regiment.
- 1945 –Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
- 1966 –Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
- 1966 –Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
- 1995 –An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
- 1999 –The last flight of the SR-71.
- 2009 –First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA’s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
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