June 9 facts for kids

June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

• 411 BC – A coup in Athens results in a short-lived oligarchy.
• 53 – Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
• 721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier sails into the Saint Lawrence River.
• 1650 – The Harvard Corporation becomes the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667 – The raid of the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins, during the Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1672 – Tsar Peter I of Russia is born.
• 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future US State of Georgia.
• 1762 - British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
• 1772 - British schooner Gaspeemus is burned off Rhode Island.
• 1815 – End of Congress of Vienna: A new European political situation is set.
• 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, first female winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is born.
• 1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for Salt Lake City, carrying everything in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson wins the Battle of Port Republic in the Shenandoah campaign.
• 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia takes place.
• 1870 – English writer Charles Dickens dies aged 58.
• 1873 – In London, the Alexandra Palace burns down just 16 days after opening.
• 1885 - A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War. China cedes Tonkin and Annam, both in present-day Vietnam, to France.
• 1898 – China leases Hong Kong to the United Kingdom for 99 years.
• 1900 - Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison in mysterious circumstances.

1901 – 2000

• 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey starts a car journey across the United States that would take 59 days.
• 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as United States Secretary of State.
• 1920 - The Imperial War Museum in London opens its doors.
• 1923 – In a coup, the military takes over in Bulgaria.
• 1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew become the first people to successfully fly an aircraft from the United States to Australia over the Pacific Ocean.
• 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut.
• 1944 – World War II: German troops kill 99 civilians in Tulle, France.
• 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union invades Karelia.
• 1946 – Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes King of Thailand, after the mysterious gunshot death of his brother, Ananda Mahidol. Bhumibol is, as of 2015, the longest-reigning current monarch, with 69 years on the throne.
• 1948 – The International Council of Archives is founded.
• 1950 - ARD, the national broadcaster of West Germany, and the whole of Germany since 1990, is founded.
• 1954 – Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communists infiltrated the US Army.
• 1957 – An Austrian team becomes the first to climb Broad Peak, in the Karakorum Range of the Himalayas.
• 1958 – London Gatwick Airport is opened.
• 1959 - USS George Washington is launched - the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1962 - A swimmer crosses the Strait of Messina between Sicily and mainland Italy for the first time.
• 1965 - South Vietnam: Phan Huy Quat resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
• 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning in the United States following the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt.
• 1972 - Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills in South Dakota to burst, killing up to 238 people.
• 1973 – The racehorse Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
• 1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
• 1978 – The Mormon church ends its policy of banning black men from the priesthood.
• 1983 – Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party scores a landslide victory in the UK General Election, over Michael Foot's Labour Party.
• 1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon.
• 1993 - Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan marries Princess Masako of Japan.
• 1998 – A cyclone in Gujarat destroys buildings and kills 3,000 people.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

From 2001

• 2006 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand marks 60 years on the throne.
• 2006 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany begins.
• 2008 – Flooding causes the dam at Lake Delton in Wisconsin to break.
• 2013 - Rafael Nadal wins the singles title in the French Open tennis for the 8th time. This sets a record for the number of singles titles won by an individual in a single Grand Slam tournament.

Births

Up to 1900

• 1075 - Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1137)
• 1508 – Primoz Trubar, Slovenian religious reformer (d. 1586)
• 1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
• 1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1595 – 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)
• 1781 – George Stephenson, English engineer (d. 1848)
• 1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1835 - Ramon Barros Luco, President of Chile (d. 1919)
• 1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and feminist (d. 1917)
• 1837 - Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English writer (d. 1919)
• 1840 – Akaki Tsereteli, Georgian writer and politician (d. 1915)
• 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist (d. 1914)
• 1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English politician, 4th Governor-General of India (d. 1914)
• 1849 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• 1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American politician (d. 1921)
• 1861 - Pierre Duhem, French physicist (d. 1916)
• 1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• 1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (d. 1914)
• 1868 - Jane Avril, French dancer (d. 1943)
• 1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
• 1879 - Harry DeBaecke, American rower (d. 1961)
• 1882 - Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
• 1885 - Felicjan Slawoj Skladkowski, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
• 1890 - Leslie Banks, English actor (d. 1952)
• 1891 – Cole Porter, American musician (d. 1964)
• 1895 - Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (d. 1981)
• 1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian racing driver (d. 1952)
• 1898 - Leo Elthon, Governor of Iowa (d. 1967)
• 1900 – Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)

1901 – 1950

• 1902 – Skip James, American Mississippi River Delta blues musician (d. 1969)
• 1908 - Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author and activist (d. 1993)
• 1908 - Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1912 - Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1970)
• 1915 – Les Paul, American musician (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Robert McNamara, American politician (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, British historian and writer (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Paul Mebus, German footballer (d. 1993)
• 1921 - Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (d. 2015)
• 1921 - Jean Lecouture, French journalist, historian and author
• 1922 – George Axelrod, American producer, playwright and director (d. 2003)
• 1923 - Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
• 1924 - Tony Britton, English actor
• 1926 - Happy Rockefeller, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2015)
• 1926 - Mona Freeman, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Helmut Zilk, Austrian journalist and politician (d. 2008)
• 1929 - Johnny Ace, American musician (d. 1954)
• 1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
• 1930 - Jordi Pujol i Soley, Catalan politician
• 1930 - Princess Ragnhild of Norway (d. 2012)
• 1931 - Nandini Satpathy, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 2006)
• 1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer and performer (d. 1984)
• 1936 - Jackie Mason, American actor and comedian
• 1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• 1939 - Ileana Cotrubas, Romanian operatic soprano
• 1941 – Jon Lord, English musician (Deep Purple) (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Charles Saatchi, English businessman
• 1946 - Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician
• 1946 - James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
• 1950 - Trevor Bolder, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer (d. 2013)

1951 – 1975

• 1951 - James Newton Howard, American composer
• 1954 – Elizabeth May, Canadian politician, lawyer and writer
• 1956 – Patricia Cornwell, American writer
• 1961 – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter and playwright
• 1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor
• 1963 – Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1964 – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and jazz musician (d. 2009)
• 1969 – Eric Wynalda, American footballer
• 1973 – Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
• 1973 - Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Samoth, Norwegian musician
• 1975 – Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer

From 1976

• 1977 – Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• 1978 – Matthew Bellamy, English musician (Muse)
• 1978 – Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
• 1981 – Anoushka Shankar, sitarist
• 1981 - Sara Tommasi, Italian actress and model
• 1982 – Christina Stuermer, Austrian singer
• 1983 - Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer
• 1983 - Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark
• 1984 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
• 1985 – Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1988 – Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Mae Whitman, American actress
• 1989 - Logan Browning, American actress and singer
• 1992 - Gino Peruzzi, Argentine footballer
• 1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress
• 1994 - Lee Hyeri, South Korean singer
• 1997 – Zenani Mandela, great-granddaughter of Nelson Mandela (d. 2010)

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 62 – Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. c. 35)
• 68 – Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 34)
• 373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Syriac hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
• 439 – Spearthrower Owl, Mayan ruler of Teotihuacan
• 597 – Saint Columba, Irish missionary (b. 521)
• 630 – Shahrbaraz, King of Persia
• 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1572 – Jeanne d'Abret, Queen of Navarra (b. 1528)
• 1716 – Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (b. 1670)
• 1870 – Charles Dickens, English writer (b. 1812)
• 1871 - Anna Atkins, English botanist and illustrator (b. 1799)
• 1875 - Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1884 - Anibal Pinto, President of Chile (b. 1825)
• 1892 - Yoshitoshi, Japanese artist (b. 1839)
• 1900 - Birsa Munda, Indian independence movement figure

1901 – 2000

• 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
• 1926 – Sanford Dole, American politician (b. 1844)
• 1927 - Victoria Woodhull, American politician (b. 1838)
• 1942 - Frantisek Brben, Bohemian gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1946 – Ananda Mahidol, 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 (b. 1876)
• 1960 - Semyon Lavochkin, Soviet aircraft engineer (b. 1900)
• 1961 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
• 1962 - Polly Adler, American author (b. 1900)
• 1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1972 - Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
• 1974 – Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer (b. 1899)
• 1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 - Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1986 - Elisabeth Selbert, German politician (b. 1896)
• 1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (b. 1903)
• 1991 - Howard Hobson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet and writer (b. 1925)

From 2001

• 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German musician (b. 1946)
• 2008 – Karen Asryan, Armenian chess player (b. 1980)
• 2010 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
• 2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter (b. 1915)
• 2013 - Iain Banks, Scottish novelist (b. 1954)
• 2013 - Harry Lewis, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2013 - Walter Jens, German historian and writer (b. 1923)
• 2014 - Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1958)
• 2014 - Reinhard Höppner, German politician (b. 1948)
• 2014 - Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 2014 - Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (b. 1956)
• 2014 - Carmelo Flores Laura, Bolivian claimed supercentenarian (b. 1890 or 1907)
• 2015 - Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1938)
• 2015 - James Last, German composer and bandleader (b. 1929)
• 2015 - Douglas Danforth, American businessman (b. 1923)
• 2015 - Pedro Zerolo, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician and activist (b. 1960)
• 2016 - Hamza Ali, English cricketer (b. 1995)

Observances

• La Rioja Day
• Murcia Day
• National Heroes' Day (Uganda)