Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 9

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 * 1708 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border, in present-day Belarus.


 * 1780 – The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record began to impact the Caribbean, killing at least 20,000 people across the Antilles over the subsequent days.* 1793 – French Revolution: After a month-long siege, the leaders of Lyon surrendered, ending their revolt against the National Convention.
 * 1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Empress Marie-Louise of France issued decrees conscripting tens of thousands of teenagers, who became known as Marie-Louises.
 * 1914 – World War I: The civilian authorities of Antwerp surrendered, allowing the German army to capture the city.
 * 1913 – Carrying a cargo hold full of highly flammable chemicals, the ocean liner SS Volturno (1906) caught fire in the north Atlantic and sank, resulting in 136 deaths.
 * 1942 – World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
 * 1962 – Nick Holonyak, an engineer for General Electric, gave the first public demonstration of a light-emitting diode.
 * 2012 – Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was severely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.* 2019 – Syrian civil war: Turkish forces began an offensive into north-eastern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.
 * Born/died this day: |Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan |d|705| Benjamin Banneker |d|1806| Camille Saint-Saëns |b|1835|  Edward Bok |b|1863|Reginald Dyer |b|1864|Ivo Andrić |b|1892| Charles Read |b|1918| John Lennon |b|1940| William E. Woods  |b|1949| Rockin' Robin |b|1964|  Mona Best |d|1988