October 9

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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 83 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 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 that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
• 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• 1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
• 1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
• 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.
• 1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
• 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 declares war on 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.
• 1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
• 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 Tom's 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 Berne.
• 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• 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 – 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, California.
• 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.
• 1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
• 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
• 1966 – Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh 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.
• 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.
• 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
• 1987 – Alexander Roben Babits Grice is born in Schenectady, NY.
• 1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
• 1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
• 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
• 1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
• 2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
• 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 allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
• 2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

Births

• 1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian, founder of the Collège de Sorbonne (d. 1274)
• 1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. 1290)
• 1261 – Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
• 1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
• 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638)
• 1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632)
• 1704 – Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
• 1757 – Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• 1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English egyptologist and sculptor (d. 1878)
• 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (d. 1921)
• 1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist (d. 1902)
• 1840 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (d. 1905)
• 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1855 – Paul Wiesner, German sailor (d. 1930)
• 1858 – Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)
• 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
• 1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar (d. 1922)
• 1871 – Georges Gauthier, Canadian bishop (d. 1940)
• 1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
• 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
• 1873 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939)
• 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1888 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
• 1888 – Irving Cummings, American actor and director (d. 1959)
• 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (d. 1944)
• 1892 – Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
• 1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (d. 1945)
• 1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982)
• 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Freddie Young, English cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001)
• 1906 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English politician (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Jacques Tati, French director and producer (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Horst Wessel, German SS officer and composer (d. 1930)
• 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
• 1908 – Werner von Haeften, German military officer (d. 1944)
• 1908 – Lee Wiley, American singer (d. 1975)
• 1909 – Donald Coggan, English archbishop (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Edward Andrews, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (d. 2010)
• 1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000)
• 1919 – Belva Plain, American author (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Yusef Lateef, American musician, composer, and educator
• 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French director (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor
• 1923 – Donald Sinden, English actor
• 1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer
• 1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
• 1931 – Antony Booth, English actor
• 1931 – Homer Smith, American football player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
• 1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
• 1934 – Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
• 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• 1936 – Brian Blessed, English actor
• 1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician, 11th President of Austria
• 1939 – O. V. Wright, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1980)
• 1940 – Gordon J. Humphrey, American politician
• 1940 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, Plastic Ono Band, and The Dirty Mac) (d. 1980)
• 1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
• 1941 – Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
• 1941 – Trent Lott, American politician
• 1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban pianist and composer
• 1941 – Karam ud Din, Pakistani navy officer (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Douglas Kirby, American psychologist
• 1943 – Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer
• 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
• 1944 – John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Who) (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Labelle)
• 1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1946 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1947 – France Gall, French singer
• 1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Tony Zappone, American photographer and journalist
• 1948 – Jackson Browne, German-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
• 1948 – Dave Samuels, American vibraphone player (Caribbean Jazz Project)
• 1950 – Brian Downing, American baseball player
• 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese guitarist (RC Succession)
• 1950 – Jody Williams, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
• 1952 – Simon Drew, English illustrator and Cartoonist
• 1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
• 1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
• 1954 – James Fearnley, English musician and songwriter (The Pogues and The Nips)
• 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor
• 1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian-American actor and producer
• 1957 – Don Garber, American businessman
• 1957 – Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Lard, Acid Horse, and PTP)
• 1958 – Michael Pare, American actor
• 1958 – Mike Singletary, American football player
• 1960 – Maddie Blaustein, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1960 – Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist (Five Peace Band)
• 1961 – Julian Bailey, English race car driver
• 1961 – Gyula Hajszán, Hungarian footballer
• 1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
• 1962 – Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
• 1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican director
• 1964 – John Ralston, Canadian actor
• 1965 – Jimbo Fisher, American football player and coach
• 1966 – David Cameron, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine
• 1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
• 1967 – Audie England, American actress
• 1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1968 – Troy Davis, American murderer (d. 2011)
• 1969 – PJ Harvey, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1969 – Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater
• 1969 – Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
• 1970 – Savannah, American porn actress (d. 1994)
• 1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
• 1970 – Jason Butler Harner, American actor
• 1970 – Steve Jablonsky, American composer
• 1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
• 1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1971 – Jason Jones, American director, producer, and activist
• 1971 – Stevie Richards, American wrestler
• 1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actress
• 1973 – Steven Burns, American actor and singer
• 1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress
• 1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Rhapsody of Fire, Vision Divine, and Labyrinth)
• 1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
• 1974 – Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi and activist
• 1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
• 1975 – Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Plastic Ono Band, and Cibo Matto)
• 1975 – Rale Micic, Serbian guitarist and composer
• 1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
• 1976 – Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer
• 1976 – Sam Riegel, American voice actor, scriptwriter, and director
• 1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1977 – Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Yaki Kadafi, American rapper (Outlawz) (d. 1996)
• 1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
• 1978 – Rossa, Indonesian singer
• 1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter and footballer (Westlife)
• 1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player
• 1979 – Alex Greenwald, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Phantom Planet and JJAMZ)
• 1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian race car driver
• 1979 – Chris O'Dowd, Irish comedy actor
• 1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor
• 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
• 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor and producer
• 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
• 1981 – Urška Žolnir, Slovenian martial artist
• 1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
• 1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
• 1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 1983 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
• 1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
• 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver
• 1984 – Ghetts, English rapper
• 1984 – Djamel Mesbah, Algerian footballer
• 1986 – Derek Holland, American baseball player
• 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
• 1987 – Samantha Murray, British tennis player
• 1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player
• 1989 – Ana Savić, Croatian tennis player
• 1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor and singer
• 1993 – Lauren Davis, American tennis player
• 1993 – Sarah Lahbati, Swiss-Filipino actress and singer
• 1993 – Scotty McCreery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1993 – Jhoana Marie Tan, Filipino actress
• 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
• 1998 – Joseph Gatt, a man

Deaths

• 1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
• 1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English bishop (b. 1175)
• 1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (b. 1227)
• 1390 – John I of Castile (b. 1358)
• 1555 – Justus Jonas, German religious reformer (b. 1493)
• 1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1523)
• 1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa (b. 1533)
• 1581 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary (b. 1526)
• 1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
• 1691 – William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)
• 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (b. 1640)
• 1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)
• 1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
• 1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
• 1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
• 1808 – John Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
• 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
• 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
• 1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian author, poet, and critic (b. 1873)
• 1934 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
• 1934 – Louis Barthou, French politician, 78th Prime Minister of France (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English missionary (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1946 – Frank Castleman, American athlete and coach (b. 1877)
• 1950 – George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1895)
• 1953 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (b. 1892)
• 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine physician, author, guerrilla leader (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 – André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Joseph Pilates, German physical culturist and developer of Pilates (b. 1883)
• 1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel and politician (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian businessman (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
• 1982 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (b. 1893)
• 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian military leader and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian dancer (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat and author (b. 1903)
• 1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Felix Wankel German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist and activist (b. 1914)
• 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Dagmar, American actress and model (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Herbert Ross, American director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet economist and politician (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
• 2004 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Stella Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (b. 1978)
• 2006 – Ray Noorda, American businessman, co-founder of Novell (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Enrico Banducci, American businessman, founded hungry i (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Gidget Gein, American bass player (b. 1969)
• 2009 – Stuart Kaminsky, American author (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Paddy Roy Bates, English broadcaster (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Mark Brovun, Ukrainian art director (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American actress (b. 1992)
• 2012 – Budd Lynch, American sportscaster (b. 1917)
• 2012 – George Paciullo, Australian politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Elo Romančík, Slovak actor (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Harris Savides, American cinematographer (b. 1957)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Denis
  • Dionysius the Areopagite
  • Ghislain
  • John Henry Newman
  • John Leonardi

• • October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Hangul Day (South Korea)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962.
• Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Guayaquil)
• Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)
• National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)
• Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama)
• World Post Day (International)

External links

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

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