April 9
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April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 266 days remaining.
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Events
up to 19th century
- 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.
- 1682 - Robert de LaSalle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- 1867 - Alaska purchase: By a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
20th century
1900s-1960s
- 1909 - The United States Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
- 1913 - The Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opens.
- 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on the Vimy Ridge.
- 1939 - Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after having been refused the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
- 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
- 1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin.
- 1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax
- 1959 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
- 1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
- 1969 - The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
1980s-1990s
- 1986 - The government of France rules against the privatization of French automaker Renault.
- 1987 - Dikye Baggett becomes the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson's disease.
- 1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 - Manuel Noriega is convicted of eight crimes.
- 1992 - John Major wins the UK general election.
- 1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum is dedicated in Andersonville, Georgia, on the site of an American Civil War POW camp.
- 1999 - Ismail Omar Guelleh is elected president of Djibouti.
- 1999 - Nigerian President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is assassinated.
21st century
- 2002 - The funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey.
- 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: The Ba'ath regime headed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq is deposed.
Births
up to 19th century
- 1773 - Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (d. 1824)
- 1794 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute.
- 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer (d. 1859)
- 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, lyricist (d. 1867)
- 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer, motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
- 1835 - King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
- 1848 - Helene Lange, teacher (d. 1930)
- 1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
- 1897 - John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host (d. 1974)
- 1898 - Paul Robeson, singer, political activist (d. 1976)
20th century
1900s-1960s
- 1903 - Ward Bond, actor (d. 1960)
- 1904 - Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)
- 1905 - J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995)
- 1906 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- 1908 - Victor Vasarely, painter (d. 1997)
- 1912 - Lew Kopelew (Lev Kopelev), author (d. 1997)
- 1919 - J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer
- 1925 - Heinz Nixdorf, industrialist (d. 1985)
- 1926 - Hugh Hefner, editor, publisher
- 1928 - Tom Lehrer, musician and satirist
- 1932 - Carl Perkins, country and rockabilly musician (d. 1998)
- 1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, actor
- 1935 - Avery Schreiber, actor (d. 2002)
- 1945 - Peter Gammons, baseball sportswriter, journalist
- 1954 - Dennis Quaid, actor (The Right Stuff, Any Given Sunday, Traffic)
- 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, United Kingdom MP
- 1957 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
- 1965 - Jeff Zucker, American television executive
- 1968 - Gillian Anderson, actress
1970s-1980s
- 1972 - Emir Delalic Zeko, Bosnian designer
- 1974 - Jenna Jameson, Porn Star
- 1975 - Robbie Fowler, football (soccer) striker
- 1978 - Jorge Andrade, football player
- 1978 - Rachel Stevens, singer
- 1981 - Eric Harris, one of the Columbine High School massacre gunmen (d. 1999)
- 1987 - Jessie McCartney, member of boy band Dreamstreet and actor WB11's Summerland
Deaths
- 491 - Zeno, Byzantine emperor
- 1024 - Pope Benedict VIII
- 1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
- 1553 - François Rabelais, writer (b. c. 1493)
- 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, essayist (b. 1561)
- 1804 - Jacques Necker, French statesman, finance minister of Louis XVI (b. 1732)
- 1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
- 1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress (b. 1865)
- 1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr (b. 1887)
- 1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and martyr, hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp (b. 1906)
- 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (b. 1867)
- 1963 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (b. 1891)
- 1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (b. 1940)
- 1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
- 2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
Holidays and observances
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jalál (Glory) - First day of the second month of the Bahá'í Calendar
- Good Friday (2004)
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