June 9

June 9 in recent years

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2021 (Wednesday)

2020 (Tuesday)

2019 (Sunday)

2018 (Saturday)

2017 (Friday)

2016 (Thursday)

2015 (Tuesday)

June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 205 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 53 – Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia
• 62 – Claudia Octavia commits suicide
• 68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
• 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1310 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
• 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667 – The 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.
• 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
• 1772 – The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
• 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set.
• 1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• 1873 – Alexandra Palace burnt down, after being open for only 16 days.
• 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
• 1915 – U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
• 1922 – First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
• 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 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• 1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
• 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
• 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 (the world's 12th highest mountain).
• 1958 – HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
• 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1967 – Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
• 1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1973 – Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
• 1974 – Diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
• 1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991).
• 1986 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1991 – The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
• 2002 – Bubba Ho-Tep is released to the public.
• 2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drained as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

Births

• 1508 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
• 1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1595 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• 1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
• 1661 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
• 1672 – Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
• 1686 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
• 1768 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
• 1781 – George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
• 1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
• 1845 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
• 1849 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• 1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
• 1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
• 1865 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• 1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
• 1890 – Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
• 1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
• 1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian racecar driver (d. 1952)
• 1900 – Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
• 1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and entrepreneur (d. 1997)
• 1911 – George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
• 1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist
• 1916 – Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank
• 1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American scholar (d. 2006)
• 1922 – George Axelrod, American producer, playwright and director (d. 2003)
• 1922 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
• 1922 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist (d. 1988)
• 1925 – Keith Laumer, American author (d. 1993)
• 1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
• 1930 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Jackie Mason, American comedian
• 1931 – Joe Santos, American actor
• 1931 – Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
• 1934 – Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1936 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish footballer and manager
• 1937 – Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• 1938 – Charles Wuorinen, American composer
• 1939 – Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
• 1939 – David Hobbs, English racecar driver and commentator
• 1939 – Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
• 1939 – Charles Webb, American author
• 1941 – Jon Lord, English musician (Deep Purple)
• 1943 – Joe Haldeman, American author
• 1945 – Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1945 – Nike Wagner, German art festival director
• 1947 – Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer
• 1947 – John Gurda, American historian
• 1948 – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
• 1951 – James Newton Howard, American film composer
• 1951 – Dave Parker, American baseball player
• 1952 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
• 1954 – Gregory Maguire, American author
• 1954 – George Pérez, American comic book artist
• 1956 – Patricia Cornwell, American author
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German politician, Prime minister of Lower Saxony
• 1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
• 1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
• 1961 – Aaron Sorkin, American writer
• 1962 – Yuval Banai, Israeli musician and singer
• 1963 – Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
• 1963 – Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1963 – David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
• 1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1964 – Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
• 1968 – Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
• 1969 – Eric Wynalda, American footballer
• 1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
• 1971 – John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
• 1971 – Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
• 1972 – Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
• 1972 – Matt Horsley, Australian footballer
• 1973 – Tedy Bruschi, American football player
• 1973 – Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
• 1973 – Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
• 1974 – Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
• 1974 – Tim Shaw, British radio personality
• 1974 – Randy Winn, American baseball player
• 1975 – Otto Addo, German-born footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Saturday, American football player
• 1975 – Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
• 1977 – Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• 1977 – Amisha Patel, Indian actress
• 1977 – Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• 1978 – Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
• 1978 – Michaela Conlin, American actress
• 1978 – Shandi Finnessey, American beauty queen
• 1978 – Miroslav Klose, German footballer

• 1980 – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1980 – Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
• 1980 – Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
• 1981 – Celina Jaitley, Indian actress
• 1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
• 1981 – Anoushka Shankar, English-born sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
• 1981 – Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer and model
• 1982 – Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
• 1982 – Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
• 1983 – Alektra Blue, American porn star
• 1983 – Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Jim Tang, Hong Kong actor
• 1984 – Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
• 1984 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1984 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
• 1985 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1985 – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
• 1986 – Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1986 – Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor

• 1987 – Alexis Grace, American singer
• 1988 – Mae Whitman, American actress and voice actress
• 1993 – Danielle Chuchran, American actress
• 1994 – Jon Jansen, American wealthy industrial revolutionist, sickly child, and orphan at the age of 69... he had a facelift.

Deaths

• 62 – Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
• 68 – Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
• 373 – Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist (b. 306)
• 597 – St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 630 – King Shahrbaraz of Persia
• 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
• 1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 – Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (b. 1670)
• 1717 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
• 1870 – Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 – Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist (b. 1839)
• 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
• 1912 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
• 1946 – Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
• 1952 – Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 – Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (b. 1950)
• 1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire

• Third day of the Vestalia

Catholicism

• Saint Columba
• Saint Diomedes
• Saint Edmund
• Saint Efrem (Saint Ephraim)
• Saint Liborius
• Saint Primus and Felicianus
• Saint Pelagia

Lutheranism

• Aidan of Lindisfarne

Judaism

• Shavuot

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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