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What happened in history on this day: June 9?
On June 9 in ...
- 68 - Nero, Roman Emperor, commits suicide.
- 1456 - 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
- 1534 - Jacques Cartier first sails into mouth of Saint Lawrence River.
- 1628 - First deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts
- 1640 - Birth of Leopold I in Vienna; Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1732 - Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe.
- 1772 - First Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion.
- 1781 - Birth of George Stephenson; inventor (principal railroad locomotive).
- 1784 - John Carroll is appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions.
- 1789 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver Island.
- 1790 - First book copyrighted under the constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book.
- 1791 - Birth of John Howard Payne; US author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home).
- 1822 - Charles Graham receives first patent for false teeth.
- 1843 - Birth of Bertha von Suttner in Austria; novelist/pacifist (Nobel Prize 1905).
- 1862 - Battle of Port Republic, last of five battles in CSA General Thomas Jackson's Valley camp.
- 1865 - Birth of Carl Nielsen in Norre-Lyndelse, Denmark; composer (Det Uuslukkelige).
- 1869 - Charles Elmer Hires sells his first root beer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
- 1870 - Charles Dickens, author, dies in England.
- 1883 - First commercial electric railway line begins operation in the USA (Chicago El).
- 1892 - Birth of Cole Porter in Peru, Indiana, USA; songwriter-composer ("Anything Goes", "Kiss Me Kate", "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "Let's Do It").
- 1898 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years.
- 1899 - Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzsimmons for the heavyweight boxing crown.
- 1900 - Birth of Fred Waring in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, USA; choirmaster/bandleader (The Pennsylvanians), inventor (Waring blender).
- 1901 - New York Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cincinnati Reds 25-13.
- 1906 - Birth of Tonio Selwart in Germany; actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja).
- 1907 - K Lohnert discovers asteroid #635 Vundtia.
- 1908 - Birth of Robert Cummings in Joplin, Missouri, USA; actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder, Twelve Angry Men (1954, Emmy award), The Bob Cummings Show, My Hero, My Living Doll).
- 1912 - Birth of Ingolf Dahl in Hamburg, Germany; composer (Andante and Arioso).
- 1915 - Birth of Lester William Polsfuss AKA Les Paul in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; guitarist ("Mockin' Bird Hill", "How High the Moon", "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"). guitar designer (marketed by the Gibson company), built the first eight-track tape recorder, invented "sound-on-sound" recording or overdubbing.
- 1916 - Birth of Robert Strange McNamara in San Francisco, California, USA; US Secretary of Defense (1961-68), head of World Bank.
- 1921 - Birth of Agnes Keleti in Hungary; gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 1956).
- 1922 - Birth of George Axelrod; playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany's).
- 1924 - Birth of Christine Goitschel in France; slalom (Olympic-gold-1964).
- 1924 - Birth of Tony Britton in Birmingham, England; actor (Day of the Jackal, Girl in my Soup).
- 1926 - Birth of Mona Freeman in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress).
- 1928 - First aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia.
- 1930 - Birth of Jackie Mason; comedian (The World According to Me, Chicken Soup).
- 1930 - Birth of Marvin Kalb in New York City, New York, USA; educator/newscaster (CBS, NBC).
- 1931 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1197 Rhodesia.
- 1931 - Birth of Joe Santos; actor (The Rockford Files, The Sopranos).
- 1931 - Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design.
- 1933 - Birth of Dick Orkin in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA; actor/producer (Tim Conway Show, Chickenman, Tooth Fairy).
- 1934 - The Walt Disney Silly Symphony film The Wise Little Hen is released to theaters in the USA. Donald Duck makes his film debut, with a voice supplied by Clarence Nash.
- 1934 - Birth of Helga Haase in Germany; 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960).
- 1934 - Birth of Jackie Wilson in Detroit, Michigan, USA; soul singer ("Night" (1960), "Lonely Teardrops"), inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987).
- 1934 - Birth of Joe Santos in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus).
- 1934 - Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by three strokes for the US Open.
- 1936 - Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by one stroke for the US Open.
- 1938 - Birth of Charles Wuorinen in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Pulitzer 1980).
- 1940 - Norway falls to German forces. King Haakon VI flees to London, England.
- 1941 - Birth of John Lord in England; keyboardist (Deep Purple - "Hush", Whitesnake).
- 1943 - US Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax.
- 1944 - 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1944 - Birth of Brigid Bazlen in Wisconsin, USA; actress (Pam - Too Young to go Steady).
- 1946 - King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand is found shot to death in his bedroom in the Grand Palace.
- 1946 - Nineteen guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque, Iowa, USA).
- 1946 - 66,545 fans help New York Yankees break million attendance mark.
- 1946 - New York Giants' Mel Ott becomes the first manager to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader.
- 1948 - Birth of Nathaniel Rosen in Altadena, California, USA; cellist (Tchaikovsky Gold 1978).
- 1951 - Birth of Bonnie Tyler [Gaynor Hopkins]; rocker ("Total Eclipse of the Heart").
- 1951 - Birth of Dave Parker; baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, National League Most Valuable Player 1978).
- 1953 - Tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, destroying Assumption College, killing 100.
- 1953 - NBC airs the last Texaco Star Theatre TV show.
- 1954 - Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency".
- 1957 - Anthony Eden resigns as British Prime Minister.
- 1958 - Birth of Donald Michael in Santini, Massachusetts, USA; murderer (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1959 - First ballistic missile submarine launched (George Washington, in Groton, Connecticut, USA).
- 1960 - ABC-TV and AFL sign a five-year broadcasting contract.
- 1961 - Birth of Michael J Fox in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf).
- 1961 - Birth of Aaron Sorkin; writer-producer (The West Wing, Studio 60, Sports Night).
- 1962 - Birth of Eddie Lundon; rocker (China Crisis - "Christian").
- 1962 - The NBC TV network airs the last The Kraft Music Hall TV show in the USA.
- 1963 - First Sunday night game in baseball: San Francisco Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0.
- 1963 - Birth of Johnny Depp in Queensboro, Kentucky, USA; actor (21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Caribbean).
- 1964 - Birth of Gloria Reuben in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actress (ER, Raising the Bar).
- 1965 - Michel Fazy runs the mile in 3 minute 53.6 seconds.
- 1967 - Birth of Dean Felber; bassist (Hootie and the Blowfish).
- 1967 - Birth of Dean Dinning; bassist (Toad the Wet Sprocket).
- 1969 - Birth of Mitch McLee [Douglas Lee Mitchell] in Miles, Michigan, USA; drummer (Southgang).
- 1969 - Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones.
- 1969 - Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice.
- 1970 - Birth of Ed Simons; musician (Chemical Brothers).
- 1970 - Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice.
- 1972 - 14 inches of rain in six hours bursts Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 200.
- 1972 - Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia.
- 1973 - Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes and Triple Crown.
- 1974 - Supergroup Blind Faith (Eric Clapton, Steve Windwood, Baker) performs first concert.
- 1975 - E Roemer discovers asteroid #1983 Bok.
- 1975 - Fire in prison hospital kills ten prisoners and one guard (Sanford, Florida).
- 1978 - Birth of Michaela Conlin; actress (Bones).
- 1978 - Death of Prince Nicholas of Romania (born 1903).
- 1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extends the priesthood and temple blessings to 'all worthy males', ending a general policy of excluding 'Canaanites' from Priesthood ordination and temple ordinances.
- 1978 - Intel introduces the 4.77MHz 8086 microprocessor. It uses 16-bit registers, a 16-bit data bus, and 29,000 transistors, using 3-micron technology. Price is US$360. It can access 1 MB of memory. Speed is 0.33 MIPS.
- 1978 - Gutenberg Bible (one of 21) sells for US$2.4 million, London, England.
- 1978 - Larry Holmes wins a decision over Ken Norton for the WBC crown.
- 1979 - Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes.
- 1979 - Philadelphia Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for first and last time.
- 1979 - Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome.
- 1980 - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth.
- 1980 - In the California - Mexico border region, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1980 - Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants end their game at 3:11 AM.
- 1981 - Death of Allen Ludden at age 63 of stomach cancer; game show host (Password TV show, GE College Bowl radio show).
- 1981 - Birth of Natalie Portman in Israel; actress (Sesame Street, The Simpsons).
- 1982 - Israeli forces wipe out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley.
- 1982 - Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at age 74.
- 1983 - Conservative Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins the general election, in a landslide victory over Michael Foot (397 seats to 209; 42 percent of the popular vote).
- 1984 - NASA launches Intelsat V, it fails.
- 1984 - Polygram's Hanover, Germany plant produces its 10 millionth compact disc.
- 1984 - Swale wins the Belmont Stakes (eight days later Swale dies).
- 1984 - Jürgen Hingsen of Federal Republic of Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 points.
- 1985 - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon.
- 1985 - Los Angeles Lakers beats Boston Celtics in six games for NBA title.
- 1986 - California Angels' Don Sutton (298 wins) beats Chicago White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0.
- 1986 - The Rogers Commission report on space shuttle Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol.
- 1988 - US Attorney General Edwin Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to the United Kingdom.
- 1988 - Birth of Mae Whitman; actress (Arrested Development).
- 1989 - Film Star Trek V premieres in theaters.
- 1989 - Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of University of Oklahoma's football.
- 1989 - Buena Vista Pictures Distribution generally releases the film Dead Poets Society to theaters in the USA.
- 1989 - Rare tornado in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA kills one.
- 1989 - Death of George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1903).
- 1989 - Michael Chang's French Open win makes him youngest male (age 17) to go to finals.
- 1990 - Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer.
- 1990 - Go and Go wins the 122nd Belmont Stakes horse race.
- 1990 - The NBC TV network begins airing the Singer & Sons show.
- 1990 - Monica Salas beats Steffi Graff for French Open women's tennis title.
- 1991 - Hansel wins the Belmont Stakes.
- 1991 - Jim Courier beats Andre Agassi for the French Open.
- 1991 - World Bowl-World League of American Football first championship.
- 1991 - A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit was first alerted.
- 1991 - Death of Joe Hamilton at age 62 of cancer; TV producer (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family, The Smothers Brothers Show).
- 1993 - The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th National Hockey League Stanley Cup.
- 1993 - Death of Alexis Smith at age 72 of brain cancer; actress (Dallas).
- 1994 - In Northern Bolivia, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake occurs. Felt at many locations in North America, including Los Angeles, California; Boston, Massachusetts and Toronto, Canada. This is believed to be the first earthquake from this part of South America to be felt in North America and is also believed to be the largest ever recorded in this general area.
- 1994 - Death of Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903).
- 1995 - Death of Frank Chacksfield at age 81; English arranger/orchestra leader ("Ebb Tide", "Limelight").
- 1997 - The British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires.
- 1999 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
- 2000 - The Austrian writer of experimental literature, Ernst Jandl, dies in Vienna at age 74; writer of lyric, dramas and radio plays, won the Georg Büchner Prize for literature.
- 2001 - The Colorado Avalanche win their second Stanley Cup Championship with a 3-1 victory in Game 7 of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals over the defending champion New Jersey Devils at Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado.
- 2003 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 3-0 in Game Seven of the 2003 NHL Stanley Cup Finals to win their third Stanley Cup championship.
- 2004 - Death of Barbara Whiting at age 73 of cancer; singer (Junior Miss radio show), actress (Those Whiting Girls TV show).
- 2005 - At Logan Airport, almost 400 people narrowly avoid death when two jet airliners nearly collide on the runway.
- 2006 - An explosion kills eight Palestinian civilians on a Gaza beach. Israel denies responsibility for the blast.
- 2006 - The 2006 FIFA World Cup begins in Germany.
- 2006 - Disney releases the Disney-Pixar computer-animated feature film Cars in theaters in the USA. North American theater gross revenues: US$244 million.
- 2007 - At Jamsil Stadium in Seoul Yang, Jun-hyuk of the Samsung Lions becomes the first player in the 26-year history of the Korean baseball league to collect 2,000 hits.
- 2008 - In Maryland, USA, 19-year-old Yani Tseng of Taiwan wins the LPGA Championship.
- 2008 - Ken Griffey Junior becomes the sixth major league player to hit 600 career home runs.
- 2008 - An IBM supercomputer under development sets a computing milestone, operating at one thousand trillion calculations per second (1 petaflop). The computer, codenamed Roadrunner, incorporates 20,000 4-GHz Cell processors, the same processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3.
- 2008 - Afghan and British forces uncover a stash of 237 tonnes of hashish in Kandahar province of Afghanistan, believed to be the world's biggest seizure of drugs by weight.
- 2010 - The United Nations Security Council approves 12 votes to 2 a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to curtail its nuclear program. The sanctions ban Iran from buying several categories of heavy weapons, and also target financial institutions and individuals with suspected ties to the nuclear program.
- 2010 - National elections in Netherlands: centre-right Liberal Party (VVD) 31, centre-left Labour Patry 30, anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) 24, Christian Democrat party 21.
- 2010 - Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks results in the deaths of hundreds.
- 2019 - A large explosive eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia sends a 7,000-metre ash column, generating a pyroclastic flow 3-3.5 kilometres long towards the south and southeast of the mountain.
- 2019 - Over 1 million people in Hong Kong protest against proposed legislation regarding extradition to China. It is the largest protest in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover.
- 2021 - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador passes legislation to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in the country, becoming the first country to adopt the cryptocurrency alongside the U.S. dollar.
- 2022 - The LIV golf tour has its inaugural event near London, England. 54 holes over 3 days.
- 2022 - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is sworn in as president of Somalia.
- 2022 - Death of Billy Bingham at age 90; football manager (Northern Ireland, World Cup finals 1982, 1986).
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