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October 9 in History
Historical Events on October 9
768
Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
1238
James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264
The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez, which had been under Muslim occupation since 711.
1410
The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
1446
The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514
Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1594
The army of the Portuguese Empire is annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
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.
1708
Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740
Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
1760
Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1790
An earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme) causing severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea. Three-thousand people were killed.
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 begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against 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
Ioannis Kapodistrias, 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.
1847
Slavery is abolished in Saint Barthélemy and all remaining slaves are freed.
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 Toms Brook, Virginia.
1873
A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874
General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Bern.
1900
The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
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
The 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.
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.
1950
Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre started.
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.
1966
Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre
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.
1980
Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
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.
1995
An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
2003
Mission: Space opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2006
North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
2009
First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2012
Members of the Pakistani Taliban make a failed attempt to assassinate an outspoken schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai.
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