Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 9

This is a list of selected October 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Shoeless Joe Jackson
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  1919 "Black Sox"
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  Ioannis Kapodistrias
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  Andrew Lloyd Webber
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  Mary Tudor
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  Washington Monument
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  The words Chosŏn'gŭl and Hangul written in Hangul
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  Malala Yousafzai
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  Giardia muris, an example of a protozoan

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Hangul Day in South Korea (1446);	refimprove section
Feast day of Saint John Henry Newman (Catholicism);	Lots of uncited material
Independence Day in Uganda (1962);	too detailed, needs expansion, outdated
1237 – James I of Aragon entered Valencia and established the Kingdom of Valencia.	refimprove, date not cited
1446 – Scholars in the court of Sejong the Great promulgated the new Korean alphabet, now known as Hangul.	refimprove
1514 – Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France.	refimprove
1635 – Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.	date not in article, refimprove section
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut, later renamed Yale University, was chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, U.S.	refimprove section
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Greek head of state and the founder of Greek independence, was assassinated in Nafplion.	unreferenced section
1845 – Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church.	unreferenced section
1919 – In Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players were later found to have lost intentionally.	refimprove section
1963 – A landslide displaced large amounts of water from the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, causing waves and floods that quickly swept away several villages and killed almost 2,000 people.	refimprove
1970 – The Khmer Republic, headed by General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, was proclaimed in Cambodia.	refimprove
1983 – South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan survived an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma.	unreferenced section
2006 – North Korea conducted a nuclear test, reportedly near Kilchu, with an explosive force of less than one kiloton, that was condemned and denounced by many countries and the United Nations Security Council.	refimprove section
2016 – Militants attacked a border police post in Myanmar, killing nine people and triggering a period of intense persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1676 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules" – the first known description of protozoa (pictured).
• 1708 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border, in present-day Belarus.
• 1740 – European soldiers and Javanese collaborators massacred Chinese Indonesians in the port city of Batavia, modern-day Jakarta.
• 1780 – The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record began to impact the Caribbean, killing at least 20,000 people across the Antilles over the subsequent days.
• 1793 – French Revolution: After a month-long siege, the leaders of Lyon surrendered, ending their revolt against the National Convention.
• 1888 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
• 1912 – Following a reduction in pay, textile workers in Little Falls, New York, walked out of their mill, starting a three-month strike.
• 1913 – Carrying a cargo hold full of highly flammable chemicals, the ocean liner SS Volturno caught fire in the north Atlantic and sank, resulting in 136 deaths.
• 1942 – World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
• 1952 – A footman shot and killed two colleagues and wounded the lady of the house at Knowsley Hall, England.
• 1962 – Nick Holonyak, an engineer for General Electric, gave the first public demonstration of a light-emitting diode.
• 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in London's West End.
• 2012 – Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was severely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
• Born/died this day: |Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan |d|705| Claude Gaspar Bachet de Méziriac |b|1581| Henry Constable |d|1613|Benjamin Banneker |d|1806| Camille Saint-Saëns |b|1835| Edward Bok |b|1863|Nazikeda Kadın |b|1866|Ivo Andrić |b|1892| Charles Read |b|1918| John Lennon |b|1940| Clare Boothe Luce |d|1987| Mona Best |d|1988

Notes

• 1903 World Series appears on October 1, so Black Sox Scandal should not appear in the same year

October 9: Leif Erikson Day in the United States, parts of Canada, and communities in the Nordic countries

Empress Marie Louise

• 1813 – Late in the Napoleonic Wars, Empress Marie Louise (pictured) issued decrees conscripting tens of thousands of French teenagers, who became known as Marie-Louises.
• 1874 – The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail could be exchanged easily.
• 1914 – World War I: The civilian authorities of Antwerp surrendered and allowed the German army to capture the city.
• 2019 – Syrian civil war: Turkish forces began an offensive into north-eastern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.

• Reginald Dyer (b. 1864)
• William E. Woods (b. 1949)
• Rockin' Robin (b. 1964)
• Oskar Schindler (d. 1974)

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