About October 9
October 9, 2020 is the 283rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 126 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.
- 1238 –James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1558 –Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
- 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.
- 1708 –Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1740 –Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
- 1776 –Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1812 –War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
- 1824 –Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- 1845 –The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1907 –Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
- 1913 –Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- 1942 –Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
- 1945 –Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
- 1966 –Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
- 1991 –Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 2001 –Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
- 2003 –Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
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