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June 24

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June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of the year. Contents [hide]

* 1 Events * 2 Births * 3 Deaths * 4 Holidays and observances * 5 External links

Events

* 972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place. * 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães:Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D. Teresa and D. Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1139, after the Battle of Ourique. * 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory of the Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce. Scotland regains its independence in the aftermath of this battle. * 1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England. * 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. * 1441 – Eton College is founded. * 1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings. * 1497 – Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London. * 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England. * 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded. * 1571 – Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines, is founded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. * 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java). * 1662 – The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau. * 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded. * 1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded. * 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England. * 1748 – The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath. * 1793 – The first republican constitution in France is adopted. * 1794 – Bowdoin College is founded. * 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia. * 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams : A British and Indian combined force defeat the U.S Army. * 1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain. * 1859 – Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy. * 1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War. * 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. * 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. * 1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens. * 1902 – King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. * 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria. * 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract. * 1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line. * 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. * 1928 – With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada. * 1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (Thailand). * 1938 – A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania. * 1945 – The Moscow Victory Parade takes place. * 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. * 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible. * 1949 – The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd. * 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States. * 1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the United Kingdom. * 1975 – An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die. * 1981 – The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years. * 1982 – British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. * 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7: Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut, returns to earth. * 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist. * 1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber. * 1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew. * 1995 – South Africa defeats New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup is the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid. * 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. * 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. * 2007 – The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours. * 2009 – Dawit Kefale is born, again at 6 o'clock in the evening after being exactly right about Tianjin ( Airbus plant and its timing plus Wen Jiabao's connection there ) and close to the fact that Dreamliner is made of composite material ( Carbon fiber reinforced polymer ) and trying but failed to check out, the ERP on Wikipedia.

Births

* 1244 – Henry I of Hesse (d. 1308) * 1343 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373) * 1386 – Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456) * 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) * 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) * 1533 – Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (d. 1588) * 1535 – Joan of Spain, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1573) * 1542 – St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet (d. 1591) * 1546 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610) * 1587 – William Arnold, English, pioneer settler of Providence Plantation (d. 1675) * 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742) * 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757) * 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss publicist (d. 1748) * 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771) * 1774 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838) * 1777 – John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856) * 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878) * 1803 – George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887) * 1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854) * 1811 – John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1889) * 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887) * 1825 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844) * 1826 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898) * 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author (disappeared ca. 1914) * 1850 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916) * 1860 – Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878) * 1882 – Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962) * 1882 – Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953) * 1883 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) * 1886 – George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949) * 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964) * 1893 – Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971) * 1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983) * 1897 – Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992) * 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945) * 1901 – Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974) * 1904 – Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1995) * 1906 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986) * 1906 – Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971) * 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989) * 1908 – Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) * 1908 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d. 1987) * 1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976) * 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula One driver and five-time World Driving Champion (d. 1995) * 1911 – Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer * 1912 – Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d. 1994) * 1914 – Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008) * 1915 – Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) * 1922 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) * 1924 – Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008) * 1924 – Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991) * 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate * 1930 – Claude Chabrol, French film director * 1930 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006) * 1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer * 1933 – Sam Jones, American basketball player * 1934 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québec singer * 1935 – Terry Riley, American composer * 1938 – Lawrence Block, American writer * 1939 – Michael Gothard, English actor (d. 1992) * 1941 – Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist * 1942 – Michele Lee, American actress * 1944 – Jeff Beck, English musician (The Yardbirds) * 1944 – Arthur Brown, English musician * 1944 – John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point) * 1944 – Chris Wood, English musician (d. 1983) * 1945 – Colin Blunstone, English musician (The Zombies) * 1945 – George Pataki, American politician * 1945 – Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player * 1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986) * 1946 – Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator * 1946 – David Collenette, Canadian politician * 1947 – Peter Weller, American actor * 1947 – Mick Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac) * 1948 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes) * 1949 – John Illsley, English bassist (Dire Straits) * 1950 – Mercedes Lackey, American author * 1950 – Nancy Allen, American actress * 1951 – David Rodigan, radio DJ/actor * 1952 – Stephen Pusey, British-born artist * 1953 – Ivo Lill, Estonian artist * 1955 – Betsy Randle, American actress * 1956 – Joe Penny, English actor * 1958 – Tom Lister, Jr., American actor and former professional wrestler * 1958 – Jean Charest, Premier of Québec * 1958 – John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach * 1960 – Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger" * 1960 – Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician * 1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director * 1961 – Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (d. 2000) * 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor * 1961 – Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player * 1961 – Curt Smith, English musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears) * 1963 – Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer * 1963 – Preki, Serbian-born American soccer player * 1963 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007) * 1964 – Gary Suter, American ice hockey player * 1965 – Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player * 1966 – Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter * 1966 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006) * 1967 – Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player * 1967 – Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein) * 1967 – Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director * 1967 – Scott Oden, American writer * 1967 – Sherry Stringfield, American actress * 1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer * 1970 – Glenn Medeiros, American singer * 1971 – Christopher Showerman, American actor * 1972 – Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist * 1972 – Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower * 1973 – Alexander Beyer, German actor * 1973 – Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor * 1975 – Carla Gallo, American actress * 1975 – Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player * 1976 – Louisa Leaman, English author * 1976 – Brock Olivo, American football player * 1977 – Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player * 1977 – Cas Jansen, Dutch actor * 1977 – Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer * 1978 – Luis García, Spanish footballer * 1978 – Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer * 1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer * 1978 – Ariel Pink, American musician * 1978 – Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer * 1978 – Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish) * 1979 – Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born model * 1979 – Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject * 1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and TV producer * 1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer * 1980 – Liane Balaban, Canadian actress * 1980 – Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver * 1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress * 1982 – Brian Fitzgerald, American writer * 1982 – Kevin Nolan, English footballer * 1982 – Mark Penney, Canadian film director * 1982 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player * 1982 – Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio presenter * 1983 – John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino Actor * 1984 – J. J. Redick, American basketball player * 1985 – Kyle Searles, American actor * 1985 – Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol * 1986 – Stuart Broad, English cricketer * 1986 – Phil Hughes, American baseball player * 1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer * 1987 – Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer * 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer * 1990 – Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths

* 803 – Higbald of Lindisfarne * 1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) * 1439 – Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) * 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480) * 1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489) * 1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550) * 1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580) * 1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595) * 1766 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678) * 1778 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714) * 1803 – Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714) * 1817 – Thomas McKean, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734) * 1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769) * 1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837) * 1908 – Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (b. 1837) * 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849) * 1922 – Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1867) * 1935 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (b. 1890) * 1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857) * 1947 – Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864) * 1968 – Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924) * 1977 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943) * 1978 – Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909) * 1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian National Hockey League president (b. 1905) * 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916) * 1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born novelist (b. 1917) * 1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899) * 1997 – Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913) * 1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921) * 2000 – Vera Atkins, Romanian-born intelligence officer (b. 1908) * 2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917) * 2002 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913) * 2003 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987) * 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957) * 2005 – Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908) * 2005 – Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922) * 2006 – Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956) * 2007 – Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929) * 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967) * 2007 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938) * 2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist (b. 1974) * 2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

* Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot) * Inti Raymi in Cusco * Jāņi – Latvia * Joninės – Lithuania * Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821) * Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) – First day of the sixth month of the Bahá'í calendar * Midsummer Day in England o One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.

Roman Catholic Church

* Nativity of St. John the Baptist, patron saint of Québec, Newfoundland and Torino (Turin), brush makers and knife sharpeners; o Festival of San Juan observed in Bolivia and Peru o Jaaniõhtu in Estonia. o Fête St-Jean-Baptiste, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day o Saint Jonas Day – especially celebrated in Lithuania o St John's Day (Estonia)

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links Events 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. 1003 – Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first known European to reach North America. 1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia. 1264– The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under muslim occupation since 711. 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea. 1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor. 1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela. 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. 1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. 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. 1760 – Seven Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin. 1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland. 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California. 1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. 1806 – Prussia declares war on France. 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. 1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica. 1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated. 1835 – The Royal College, Colombo in Sri Lanka is established with the name Hillstreet Academy. 1837 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. 1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church. 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. 1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne. 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. 1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated. 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire 1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic. 1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. 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. 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California. 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. 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. 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24. 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. 1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France. 1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast. 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. 1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. 1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms. 1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. 1999 – The last flight of the SR-71. 2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack. 2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. 2009 – Barrack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, postal day has been celebrated, and Dawit Kefale has ceased to exist as usual and ...... Births 1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274) 1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290) 1261 – King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325) 1328 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638) 1585 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672) 1586 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) 1704 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) 1757 – King Charles X of France (d. 1836) 1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) 1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905) 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935) 1871 – George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940) 1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar. (d. 1922) 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916) 1873 – Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939) 1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944) 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947) 1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) 1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980) 1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938) 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944) 1892 – Ivo Andrić, Serbian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) 1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941) 1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945) 1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982) 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976) 1902 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998) 1903 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979) 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001) 1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001) 1907 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982) 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961) 1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975) 1909 – Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000) 1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006) 1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture 1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007) 1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000) 1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976) 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002) 1922 – Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997) 1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor 1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958) 1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress 1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer 1931 – Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair 1933 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1933 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957) 1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family 1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor 1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician 1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980) 1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player 1941 – Trent Lott, American politician 1941 – Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN 1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician 1941 – Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008) 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist 1943 – Douglas Kirby, Research scientist 1944 – John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002) 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle) 1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996) 1946 – Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey 1947 – France Gall, French singer 1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007) 1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer 1948 – Jackson Browne, American musician 1950 – Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1950 – Brian Downing, former baseball player 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist 1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne 1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor 1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor 1954 – James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues) 1954 – Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host 1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer 1957 – Don Garber, American sports commissioner 1958 – Michael Pare, American actor 1958 – Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry) 1958 – Mike Singletary, former American football player 1960 – Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist 1961 – Julian Bailey, British racing driver 1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer 1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director 1964 – John Ralston, Canadian actor 1965 – Jimbo Fisher, Offensive Coordinator for Florida State 1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur 1966 – David Cameron, British politician 1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian professional tennis player 1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005) 1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician 1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player 1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor 1970 – Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994) 1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer 1970 – Jason Butler Harner, American actor 1971 – Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004) 1971 – Jason Jones, American filmmaker and humanitarian 1971 – Michael Manna, American professional wrestler 1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor 1973 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence) 1973 – Steve Burns, American actor and musician 1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress 1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody) 1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer 1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor 1975 – Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-Beatle John Lennon 1975 – Rale Micic, Serbian musician 1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer 1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor 1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player 1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife) 1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer 1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor 1979 – Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model 1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver 1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player 1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player 1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer 1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer 1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver 1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player 1984 – Ghetto, British musician 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer 1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player 1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

Deaths 1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005) 1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop 1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany 1390 – King John I of Castile (b. 1358) 1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) 1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523) 1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533) 1581 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526) 1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537) 1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638) 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640) 1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654) 1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718) 1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720) 1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731) 1808 – John Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777) 1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776) 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785) 1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818) 1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843) 1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873) 1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888) 1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862) 1937 – Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865). 1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900) 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) 1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895) 1953 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887) 1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875) 1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882) 1958 – Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876) 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885) 1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (b. 1928) 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1967 – André Maurois, French author (b. 1885) 1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929) 1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902) 1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908) 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894) 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929) 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905) 1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908) 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903) 1987 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892) 1988 – Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940) 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903) 1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913) 1999 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923) 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914) 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945) 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918) 2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921) 2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927) 2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (b. 1931) 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924) 2002 – Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956) 2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913) 2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978) 2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924) 2007 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922) 2008 – Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969) Holidays and observances RC Saints – Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia. South Korea – Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet. Uganda – Independence Day (from Britain, 1962) Leif Erikson Day – in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America Ecuador – Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil) Romania – Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day French Republican Calendar – Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire External links BBC: On This Day The New York Times: On This Day On This Day in Canada Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_9" This page was last modified on 9 October 2009 at 13:52. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.