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On this day - April 9
193 — The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed ...
475 — Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter ...
537 — Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his ...
1241 — Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German ...
1288 — Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần ...
1388 — Despite being outnumbered 16:1, forces of the Old Swiss ...
1454 — The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power ...
1511 — Resettled Shiite Muslims rise up in the Şahkulu rebellion ...
1609 — Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion ...
1609 — Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the ...
1682 — Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the ...
1784 — The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on ...
1860 — On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de ...
1865 — American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of ...
1909 — The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
1917 — World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with ...
1918 — World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese ...
1937 — The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the ...
1939 — African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the ...
1940 — Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
1940 — World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark ...
1942 — World War II: An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air ...
1942 — World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends and the Bataan Death ...
1945 — The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1945 — World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1945 — World War II: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer is sunk ...
1945 — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, ...
1946 — About 500 postal workers in Tel Aviv and Jaffa went on strike.
1947 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to ...
1947 — The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom ...
1947 — The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 ...
1948 — Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terror groups ...
1948 — Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent ...
1952 — Japan Air Lines Flight 301 crashes into Mount Mihara, Izu ...
1952 — Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian ...
1957 — The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping ...
1959 — Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United ...
1960 — Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and ...
1967 — The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1969 — The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight ...
1980 — The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad ...
1981 — The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington ...
1989 — Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and ...
1990 — An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna ...
1990 — The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is ...
1990 — An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three ...
1991 — Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 — A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel ...
1994 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on ...
2003 — Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
2009 — In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the ...
2011 — Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a ...
2013 — At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after ...
2013 — A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and ...
2014 — A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in ...
2017 — After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked United ...
2017 — The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta ...
2021 — Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, ...