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

  • 1264 –
    The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
  • 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.
  • 1708 –
    Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
  • 1771 –
    The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
  • 1824 –
    Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
  • 1831 –
    Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
  • 1834 –
    Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
  • 1845 –
    The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
  • 1907 –
    Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
  • 1914 –
    World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
  • 1919 –
    Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
  • 1962 –
    Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
  • 1967 –
    A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

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