SomeFacts | October 9

On this day - October 9

768 — Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.

1238 — James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.

1410 — The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.

1594 — Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, ...

1604 — Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be ...

1635 — Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...

1701 — The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale ...

1708 — Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

1740 — Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ...

1760 — Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault ...

1790 — A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage ...

1799 — HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth ...

1804 — Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.

1806 — Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.

1812 — War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American ...

1820 — Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.

1825 — Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first ...

1831 — Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent ...

1834 — Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public ...

1847 — Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.

1861 — American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt ...

1864 — American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces ...

1873 — A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval ...

1874 — The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.

1900 — The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

1911 — An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising ...

1913 — The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.

1914 — World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.

1918 — The Finnish Parliament elects Prince Frederick Charles of ...

1919 — The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the ...

1934 — An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and ...

1936 — Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity ...

1937 — Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who ...

1941 — A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango ...

1942 — Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ...

1950 — The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.

1962 — Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

1963 — In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the ...

1966 — Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai ...

1967 — A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is ...

1969 — In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations ...

1970 — The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

1980 — Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private ...

1981 — President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in ...

1983 — South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination ...

1984 — The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank ...

1986 — Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US ...

1986 — The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest ...

1992 — The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite ...

1995 — An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near ...

2006 — North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.

2007 — The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of ...

2009 — First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic ...

2012 — Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl ...

2016 — The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack ...

2019 — Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

2024 — Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a ...