About October 9
October 9, 2025 is the 282nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 131 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 9
- 1446 –The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
- 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.
- 1799 –Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- 1806 –Prussia declares war on France.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1888 –The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1907 –Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
- 1913 –Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- 1919 –Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 1934 –Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- 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.
- 1941 –A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
- 1962 –Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 1963 –In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
- 1995 –An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
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