June 9 in History

Historical Events on June 9

411 BC

The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
AD 53

The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
AD 68

Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721

Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
747

Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
1311

Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1523

French Parliament fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorr in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
1534

Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1667

Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1732

James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762

British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772

The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
1798

Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
1815

End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
1815

Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
1856

Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
1862

American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863

American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1885

Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France.
1900

Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera
1915

William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1923

Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1928

Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930

A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934

Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944

World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944

World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1948

Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953

The Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
1954

McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957

First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1959

The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
1965

The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
1965

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
1967

Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1968

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1972

Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1973

In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
1978

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1979

The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
1999

Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2008

Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
2009

An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2010

At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

June 9 Birthdays

Choose Another Date