June 9

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June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

4.1 Liturgical feasts

5 External links

Events

68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena Italy.
1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
1772 - British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.
1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: new European political situation is set.
1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 - becomes the first dime novel to be published.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.
1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.
1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: China, under KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous founded when Dr. Bob Smith had his last drink on June 9, 1935.
1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand
1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).
1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).
1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1991 - The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2006 - BYU officials announce the reopening of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center.

Births

1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1915 - Les Paul, influential American guitarist
1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 - Fernand Séguin, French Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
1929 - Johnny Ace, American R&B singer (d. 1954)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
1931 - Bill Virdon, Major league baseball player and manager
1934 - Jackie Wilson, American soul and R&B singer (d. 1984)
1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
1939 - Charles Webb, author
1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
1947 - Kiran Bedi, The First Lady Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer
1951 - Dave Parker, Major league baseball player
1951 - James Newton Howard, Film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1980 - Mike Fontenot, Professional baseball player
1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch Footballer
1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian Footballer
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian Actor
1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American child actress

Deaths

62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland (b. 521)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - William Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV Game Show Host
1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta

Liturgical feasts

Catholicism

Saint Alexander, martyr [GTZ: Russia]
Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
=? Blessed Columba, abbot, confessor [GTZ: Scotland]
Saint Diomedes
Saint Edmund, bishop of Canturbury, confessor (Translation day) [GTZ: England]
Saint Efrem=Saint Ephraim, deacon, Doctor of the Church
Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor [GTZ: LeMans]
Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs [common]
Blessed Richard, bishop of Andria, Apulia
Saint Vincent, deacon, martyr [BLS]
Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr [BLS]
Blessed Diana d'Andalo

External links

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