April 9

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 9. From 1900 until now. April 9 is under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Kristen Stewart (1990), Kendal Sheppard (1980) and Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933). Several movies were released around April 9 over the years, such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in 1962 directed by John Ford and The Avengers in 2012 directed by Joss Whedon.
But much more happened on April 9 over the years: find out below

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Saint Waltrudis
Saint Casilda
Saint Ingofried
Saint Hugo of Rouan
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Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor, celebrated as Bataan Day in Bataan) in the Philippines.
Bah�'f Faith - Feast of Jal�l (Glory) - First day of the second month of the Bah�'f Calendar.
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2019 Second Libyan Civil War, 2019 Western Libya offensive: The UN cancels a planned Libyan National Conference that was due to take place later in April for negotiations between different political factions to organise new elections due to the ongoing fighting in Tripoli. (The Guardian)
2018 2018 Gaza border protests: Israel launches an investigation into a video appearing to show soldiers cheering as a Palestinian man is shot by an Israeli sniper through the Gazan border fence. (The Washington Post)The Palestinian Authority pays salaries to its West Bank staff but not to staff in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, amid growing disputes between the two groups. (The Sun Daily)
2017 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings: At least 45 people have been killed and 50 injured in explosions near two Coptic Christian churches packed with worshippers on Palm Sunday in the Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria. (Al Jazeera), (ABC Australia)The Government of Egypt imposes a three-month state of emergency in response to the bombings. (ABC)
2016 Moro Conflict: 2016 Battle of Basilan: At least 18 soldiers are killed and 52 injured in clashes with Abu Sayyaf militants and allied gunmen in Basilan island, Philippines. (FOX News)
2015 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Gunmen mount an attack on the office of the attorney-general of Afghanistan's Balkh Province in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. (BBC)
2014 A bomb blast in a market kills 26 people in the outskirts of the Pakistani capital Islamabad. (CNN)
2013 South Sudan internal conflict (2011–present):: Gunmen kill 12 United Nations peacekeepers and civilian staff in an ambush in Jonglei, South Sudan. (AFP via Google News) (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
2010 Rescue efforts continue in Brazil in an attempt to locate around 200 people believed to have been buried in their homes by a large landslide in Morro do Bumba near Rio de Janeiro city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. (BBC)
2009 In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
2008 The Olympic torch relay through San Francisco descends into confusion as the first runner in the elaborately planned relay disappears into a warehouse on a waterfront pier. (MarketWatch)
2007 The Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer signs legislation changing the date of the New York primary election to February 5, 2008. (AP via Herald News Daily)
2006 Scooter Libby says U.S. President George W. Bush okayed leaks of secret CIA intelligence material. (Buffalo News)
2005 Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
2004 Henry C. Lee arrives in Taipei to investigate the March 19, 2004 assassination attempt in Taiwan.
2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces;Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.
1997 Cleveland Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
1996 In a common statement, the European Union officially recognises the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 Translations closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
1994 Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
1993 Colorado Rockies first home game and first victory, 11-4 over Montreal Expos.
1992 Redwood Curtain opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
1990 Capital News starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1988 Les Miserables, opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
1986 Dallas announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1984 56th Academy Awards - Terms of Endearment, R Duvall and S Maclaine win
1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth.
1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1980 Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs. Isles
1979 51st Academy Awards - The Deer Hunter, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win. Walter Lantz is given an honorary Oscar for his animated motion pictures.
1978 David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
1977 Communist party legally allowed in Spain after 40 years.
1976 US and Russia agree on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use.
1975 The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam.
1972 Sugar opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to life imprisonment.
1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of The Beatles.
1969 Chicago Cubs' Billy Williams hits four consecutive doubles, beat Philadelphis Phillies 11-3.
1968 German DR adopts constitution
1967 At the Drop of Another Hat closes at Booth NYC after 105 performances
1966 Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
1965 Beatles Ticket to Ride is released in the UK
1964 The United Nations Security Council adopts by a 9–0 vote a resolution deploring a British air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier, in which 25 persons were reported killed.
1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
1962 34th Academy Awards - West Side Story, Sophia Loren and Max Schell win.
1961 The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle.
1959 Bill Sharman hits an NBA record 56 consecutive foul shots.
1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping.
1956 Habib Bourguiba is elected prime minister of Tunisia.
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1954 WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 TV Guide publishes 1st issue
1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia.
1950 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win.
1948 Jorge Eliecer Gaitan's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogota (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
1947 Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo Durocher for one year.
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame.
1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1939 Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after having been refused the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
1937 The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London : it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
1928 Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
1927 Italy and US anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences.
1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1918 Latvia proclaims independence from Russia.
1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops.
1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun : German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
1914 World, the Flesh & the Devil, 1st color film, shown in London
1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York.
1909 The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
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