SomeFacts | June 9

On this day - June 9

The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

53 — The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.

68 — Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ...

721 — Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

747 — Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt ...

1311 — Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian ...

1523 — The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for ...

1534 — Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the ...

1732 — James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of ...

1772 — The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, ...

1798 — Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.

1815 — End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political ...

1856 — Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon ...

1862 — American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful ...

1863 — American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, ...

1885 — Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with ...

1900 — Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British ...

1915 — William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's ...

1922 — Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary ...

1923 — Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

1928 — Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific ...

1930 — A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush ...

1944 — World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the ...

1944 — World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts ...

1948 — Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the ...

1953 — The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people ...

1954 — Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, ...

1957 — First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus ...

1958 — Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, ...

1959 — The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first ...

1965 — Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of ...

1965 — The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, ...

1967 — Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.

1968 — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of ...

1972 — Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South ...

1973 — In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.

1978 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its ...

1979 — The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills ...

1995 — Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range ...

1999 — Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a ...

2008 — Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, ...

2009 — An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a ...

2010 — At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a ...