About October 9
October 9, 2021 is the 282nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 115 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 9
- 1238 –James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 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.
- 1701 –The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- 1804 –Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- 1824 –Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- 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
- 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.
- 1942 –Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
- 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
- 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.
- 1981 –Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1986 –The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- 1999 –The last flight of the SR-71.
- 2006 –North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
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