What happened on June 9? There are more than 244 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 9
June 9 is the 161st day of the year 2024. There are 205 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 23rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Jasper, Florida 32052 sunrise will occur at 06:27 AM and sunset will occur at 08:34 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 234 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 9
- 411 BCCoup in Athens succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
- 53Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
- 62Claudia Octavia is executed.
- 68Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 721Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
- 1310Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
- 1534Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1650The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
- 1667The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1732James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
- 1772The British schooner Gaspée is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
- 1798Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
- 1815End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
- 1856Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
- 1862American 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.
- 1863American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
- 1873Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
- 1885A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France.
- 1900Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
- 1915William 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.
- 1923Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
- 1924In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.
- 1928Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- 1930Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- 1934Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
- 1944World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
- 1944World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
- 1946King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world’s longest reigning monarch.
- 1953Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
- 1954McCarthyism: 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?”
- 1958Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
- 1959The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- 1965Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
- 1967Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
- 1968U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- 1973Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
- 1974Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
- 1978The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
- 1979The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) kills seven.
- 1985Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991).
- 1986The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 1999Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
- 2008In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.
Who Were Born On June 9?
- 1580Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
- 1588Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
- 1595King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
- 1640Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
- 1661Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
- 1672Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
- 1686Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
- 1768Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
- 1781George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
- 1810Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
- 1812Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
- 1843Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
- 1845Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
- 1849Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
- 1851Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American politician (d. 1921)
- 1861Pierre Duhem, French physicist (d. 1916)
- 1865Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
- 1865Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
- 1875Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- 1882Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
- 1890Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
- 1891Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
- 1893Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
- 1898Luigi Fagioli, Italian racing driver (d. 1952)
- 1900Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
- 1906Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and entrepreneur (d. 1997)
- 1908Luis Kutner, American human rights activist (d. 1993)
- 1910Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1911George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
- 1912Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
- 1912Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
- 1915Les Paul, American guitarist and inventor (d. 2009)
- 1916Jurij Brězan, Sorbian writer (d. 2006)
- 1916Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank (d. 2009)
- 1918John Hospers, American philosopher and Libertarian politician (d. 2011)
- 1921Arthur Hertzberg, American scholar (d. 2006)
- 1922Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist (d. 1988)
- 1922George Axelrod, American producer, playwright and director (d. 2003)
- 1922John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
- 1924Ed Farhat (“The Sheik”), American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1925Keith Laumer, American author (d. 1993)
- 1929Johnny Ace, American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954)
- 1930Monique Andrée Serf, French singer (d. 1997)
- 1931Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
- 1931Joe Santos, American actor
- 1934Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1936Jackie Mason, American comedian
- 1936Mick O'Dwyer, Irish footballer and manager
- 1937Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
- 1938Charles Wuorinen, American composer
- 1939Charles Webb, American novelist
- 1939David Hobbs, English racecar driver and commentator
- 1939Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
- 1939Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
- 1941Jon Lord, English pianist and organist (Deep Purple)
- 1942Anton Burghardt, German footballer
- 1943Charles Saatchi, British-Iraqi businessman
- 1943Joe Haldeman, American science fiction author
- 1943John Fitzpatrick, British racing driver
- 1945Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
- 1945Nike Wagner, German art festival director
- 1947John Gurda, American historian
- 1948Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
- 1949Kiran Bedi, Indian social activist and police officer
- 1950Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
- 1951Dave Parker, American baseball player
- 1951James Newton Howard, American film composer
- 1951Reinhard Schmitz, German footballer
- 1952Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
- 1954Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada
- 1954George Pérez, American comic book artist
- 1954Gregory Maguire, American novelist
- 1954Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist (UFO, Lone Star)
- 1955Stephen Pewsey, English historian
- 1955Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer
- 1956Patricia Cornwell, American novelist
- 1960Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
- 1961Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter and playwright
- 1961Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
- 1962Yuval Banai, Israeli musician and singer (Mashina)
- 1963David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
- 1963Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist and political activist
- 1963Johnny Depp, American actor
- 1964Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
- 1964Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
- 1964Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and smooth jazz bassist (d. 2009)
- 1966Tamela Mann, American gospel singer and actress
- 1967Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster
- 1967Mike Freestone, Neither a runner or a murderer
- 1967Richard Cooey, American murderer (d. 2008)
- 1967Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner
- 1968Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
- 1969Eric Wynalda, American footballer
- 1969Nick Kiriazis, American actor
- 1970Erika Miklósa, Hungarian coloratura soprano
- 1970Robert W. Brown II, American lawyer and entrepreneur
- 1971Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
- 1971Jackie McKeown, Scottish vocalist and guitarist (The Yummy Fur, 1990s)
- 1972Matt Horsley, Australian football player
- 1972Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
- 1973Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
- 1973Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Iain Lee, British television/radio personality
- 1973Laura Ponte, Spanish model and member (by marriage) of the Spanish Royal Family
- 1973Tedy Bruschi, American football player
- 1974Samoth, Norwegian guitarist and drummer (Emperor, Zyklon)
- 1975Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
- 1975Jeff Saturday, American football player
- 1975Otto Addo, German-born Ghanaian footballer
- 1977Amisha Patel, Indian actress
- 1977Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1977Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
- 1978Matthew Bellamy, English vocalist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (Muse)
- 1978Michaela Conlin, American actress
- 1978Miroslav Klose, German football player
- 1978Shandi Finnessey, American beauty queen
- 1980D'banj, Nigerian singer, songwriter and harmonica player
- 1980Lehlohonolo Seema, South African football player
- 1980Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
- 1980Navíd Akhavan, Iranian-German actor
- 1980Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
- 1981Anoushka Shankar, English-born sitarist, daughter of Ravi Shankar
- 1981Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
- 1981Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer and model
- 1982Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
- 1982Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
- 1983Alektra Blue, American pornographic actress
- 1983Alex Templeton-Ward, musician, writer
- 1983Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
- 1983Firas Al Khatib, Syrian football player
- 1983Jim Tang, Hong Kong actor
- 1984Aruni Kashyap, Indian poet
- 1984Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
- 1984Kaleth Morales, Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1984Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
- 1984Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
- 1984Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
- 1985Anthimos Ananiadis, Greek actor
- 1985Richard Kahui, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1985Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
- 1985Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1986Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
- 1986Karan Wahi, Indian actor
- 1986Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1988Mae Whitman, American actress and voice actress
- 1988Sara Isakovič, Slovenian swimmer
- 1988Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek football player
- 1989Chloë Agnew, Irish singer (Celtic Woman)
- 1989Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer
- 1990Lauren Socha, English actress
- 1993Danielle Chuchran, American actress
Who Died On June 9?
- 62Claudia Octavia, wife of Roman Emperor Nero (b. 40)
- 68Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
- 373Ephrem the Syrian, Syriac Christian hymnodist (b. 306)
- 439Spearthrower Owl, Maya ruler of Teotihuacan (Mexico)
- 597Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary (b. 521)
- 630Shahrbaraz, King of Persia
- 1361Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
- 1563William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
- 1572Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
- 1583Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. c.1525)
- 1656Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
- 1716Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (b. 1670)
- 1717Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
- 1799Chevalier de Saint-Georges, African-French swordsman, soldier of fortune and composer, known as the “black Mozart” (b. 1745)
- 1834William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
- 1870Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
- 1875Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
- 1892William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
- 1892Yoshitoshi, Japanese Ukiyo-e artist (b. 1839)
- 1912Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
- 1923Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
- 1946Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII], King of Thailand (b. 1925)
- 1952Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
- 1958Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
- 1959Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
- 1961Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
- 1964Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
- 1968Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
- 1973Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
- 1973John Creasey, English crime and science fiction novelist (b. 1908)
- 1974Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
- 1979Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
- 1981Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
- 1989George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1989Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
- 1991Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
- 1993Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
- 1993Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (b. 1950)
- 1994Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1997Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
- 2000Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
- 2000John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
- 2003Georges Pichard, French comics artist (b. 1920)
- 2004Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (b. 1945)
- 2004Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
- 2006Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
- 2007Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (b. 1981)
- 2008Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
- 2008Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian (b. 1919)
- 2009Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver (b. 1930)
- 2011M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)
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