April 9

Holidays

• Saint Waltrudis
• Saint Casilda
• Saint Ingofried
• Saint Hugo of Rouan
• Day of National Unity- (???????? ?????????? ???), an annual public holiday in Georgia.
• 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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Events

• 2019 Second Libyan Civil War and 2019 Western Libya Offensive: The UN cancels the planned Libyan National Conference, which was scheduled for later in April. This conference was to have negotiations between political factions in order to organize new elections.
• 2018 2018 Gaza border protests. Israel opens an investigation into a video that appears to show soldiers cheering while a Palestinian man is killed by an Israeli sniper at the Gazan border fence. (The Washington Post). Despite growing tensions between the two groups, the Palestinian Authority pays salaries to West Bank staff but not Gaza Strip staff.
• 2017 2017 Palm Sunday Church Bombings: At least 45 people were killed and 50 others injured in explosions at two Coptic Christian churches that were packed with worshippers in the Egyptian cities Tanta or Alexandria on Palm Sunday. In response to the bombings, the Government of Egypt declares a three month state of emergency.
• 2016 Moro Conflict: 2016 Battle of Basilan - At least 18 soldiers were killed and 52 others injured during clashes between Abu Sayyaf militants in Basilan, Philippines.
• 2015 War in Afghanistan (2001-present: Gunmen attack the office of the attorney-general for Afghanistan's Balkh Province, Mazar-e-Sharif.
• 2014 26 people are killed in a bomb explosion at a market in the outskirts Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
• 2013 South Sudan internal conflict, 2011-present: Gunmen kill 12 United Nations peacekeepers (and civilian staff) in an ambush at Jonglei in South Sudan.
• 2012 Arab Spring
• 2011 Five people were killed, eleven others were injured, and the gunman committed suicide in a Dutch mall.
• 2010 Brazil continues to rescue 200 people who are believed to be buried in their homes after a massive landslide in Morro de Bumba, near Rio de Janeiro in the state.
• 2009 Up to 60,000 protesters demonstrate in Tbilisi against Mikheil Saakashvili's government.
• 2008 As the Olympic torch relay through San Francisco falls into chaos, the first runner in an elaborately planned relay disappears into the warehouse at a waterfront pier.
• 2007 New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signs legislation to change the date for the New York primary elections to February 5, 2008.
• 2006 Scooter Libby claims that President George W. Bush allowed leaks of secret CIA intelligence material.
• 2005 Wedding of Charles Prince of Wales and Camilla Duchess Of Cornwall; Charles Prince of Wales wed Camilla Parker Bowles at Windsor's Guildhall in a civil ceremony.
• 2004 Henry C. Lee arrives at Taipei to investigate an assassination attempt on Taiwan's March 19, 2004.
• 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq; Baghdad falls under American forces. The Saddam Hussein statue is toppled by Iraqis who turn against the symbols of their former leader and tear it down.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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Famous Birthday

Who was born on April 9?

• Kristen Stewart

  American actress, known for playing the protagonist Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series from 2008–12, which has grossed over $3.

• Jean-Paul Belmondo

  French actor hailed as cinema's new anti-hero in 1957, an overnight success in "A Bout de Souffle.

• Jenna Jameson

  American porn actress director and producer.

• Leighton Meester

  American singer and actress.

• Jesse McCartney

  American singer and actor.

• Elle Fanning

  Movie Actress.

• Dennis Quaid

  Movie Actor.

• Cynthia Nixon

  TV Actress.

• Paulina Porizkova

  Prostejov, Czechoslovakia -- Model (Playboy-Aug 87).

• Jay Baruchel

  Canadian actor.

• Rachel Stevens

  English singer (S Club).

• Marine Vacth
• Mark Pellegrino

  American actor.

• Moran Atias

  Israeli actress and model.

• Hannah Gordon

  Scottish actress of theatre, radio and TV, winner of a Gold Medal in 1962 at RADA.

• Jay Chandrasekhar

  Actor.

• Robert Helpmann

  Australian ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, producer and director of ballet and stage plays who began his dance training at age five and...

• Lise Delamare

  French stage and film actress, who died on 25 July 2006 in Paris.

• Isabel Coixet
• Kathleen Munroe

  Canadian-American actress.

• Elizabeth Allan

  Actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head).

• Sam Harris
• Virginia Gibson
• Joe Scarborough

  American journalist lawyer and politician.

• Ward Bond

  Actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57.

• Robin Wright

  Actress.

• Nell Newman

  Businesswoman.

• Chris Watson

  Chilean-Australian journalist and politician 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941).

• Swara Bhaskar

  Actress.

• Spencer Rice

  Canadian actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Tom Jackson

  British union leader (Post Office).

• Lili Mirojnick

  American actress.

• Blayne Weaver

  American actor and screenwriter.

• Arlen Escarpeta

  Belizean-American actor.

• Michael Learned

  TV Actress.

• Allen Jenkins

  Staten Island, New York -- Actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit).

• Paul Robeson

  American singer actor and activist (d. 1976).

• Veronica Taylor

  American actress.

• Sharon Lynn

  Weatherford, Texas -- Actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast).

• Wang Yang

  Youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 (1988 Olympics).

• Keshia Pulliam

  American child actress who was noted for the role of Rudy on the top-rated TV series "The Bill Cosby Show.

• Kendal Sheppard
• Hugh Hefner

  An American entrepreneur, Hefner is a publisher, film producer, music publisher, book publisher and owner of a record company, theaters,...

• Gerard Way

  American singer (My Chemical Romance).

• Marie-Claire Restoux

  French athlete, a judo champion.

• Joseph Fritzl
• André Manoukian

  French musician and composer of Armenian descent.

• Bernard-Marie Koltès

  French playwright and director.

• Ram Bahadur Bomjon
• Yoanna House

  American model and actress.

• Victor Vasarely

  Hungarian / French painter / author (Op Art).

• Michel Sapin

  French politician who has served in the government of France as Minister of Finance since 2014.

• Eric Harris

  American homicide with his partner, Dylan Klebold, shooting and bombing Columbine High School.

• Keshia Knight-Pulliam
• Katsuni (actress)
• Seve Ballesteros

  Spanish golfer, arguably one of the best Europeans to ever play the game.

• Jackie Evancho

  child singer.

• Gian Maria Volonte

  Actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61.

• Jeanne Guesné
• Albert Hammond Jr
• Tomohisa Yamashita

  Japanese actor and singer (NEWS Kitty GYM and Shūji to Akira).

• Jorn Utzon
• Yamina Benguigui

  French film director and politician of Algerian descent.

• Valerie Solanas

  American militant lesbian feminist, founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM) and frustrated author of the radical "S.

• Théodore Monod

  French explorer, naturalist, and humanist scholar.

• Jacques Villeneuve

  Canadian automobile racing driver and amateur musician.

• Alexander Pichushkin

  Russian serial killer.

• Pierre Gagnaire

  French chef, with three Michelin Stars.

• Eddie Elisma
• Luca Marin

  Italian swimmer.

• Naman Keïta

  French track and field athlete, who takes part in the 400 m hurdles and 4x400m relay, competing internationally for his country.

• Christian Jeanpierre
• Jazmine Sullivan

  American R&B singer.

• Karina Kraushaar
• Antal Doráti

  Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1988).

• Jacques Borel

  French restaurant executive.

• Lori Black

  American noted family, the second daughter of Shirley Temple Black.

• Olivia Giacobetti
• Diana K Rosenberg
• Albert Rémy
• Gérard Revol
• Jean-Marie Balestre

  French auto racing executive administrator.

• Paolo Cane

  in Italy; tennis star.

• Nagasaki (Japan)
• Carl Perkins

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998).

• Valerie Singleton

  British TV host and pioneer on the children's show "Blue Peter.

• Dominique Perrault

  French architect and urban planner.

• Folco Quilici

  Italian documentary filmmaker, a director best known for "The Lost Continent," 1954 and "The Last Paradise," 1955, both award-winners.

• Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux

  French ballet dancer, a member of the Paris Opera Ballet who was Premier Danseur in 1964 and Danseur Etoile in 1965.

• Marc Jacobs

  American fashion designer.

• Christian Sautter
• Marques de Araciel
• Blaise Matuidi

  French international footballer, central midfielder, playing for Paris-Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 and for the French team.

• Louis Arbessier

  French actor, who also lent his voice in the dubbing of many films.

• Daniel Maximin
• Georges Jeanclos
• Isaac Hempstead-Wright

  TV Actor.

• Paul Coste-Floret

  French politician, professor and assistant prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunal.

• Peter Luccin

  French professional footballer who plays for FC Dallas in Major League Soccer as a defensive midfielder.

• Ferdinando Imposimato

  Italian educator and prosecuting attorney in several famous cases, such as those of Aldo Moro and Sindona.

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Famous Deaths

• Sidney Lumet

  American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2011).

• Brook Benton

  singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies of meningitis at age 56.

• Andrea Dworkin

  American feminist, a prominent radical theorist, speaker and author of both fiction and non-fiction books, best known for the campaign she...

• Phil Ochs

  El Paso, Texas -- Anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over).

• Eddie Edwards

  British athlete called "The Eagle;" participated in the winter Olympics 1988, a ski jumper and great odds-on-favorite in spite of being...

• Marcel Ichac

  French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director.

• Maurice Binder

  Title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  German clergyman, theological scholar, writer and member of the resistance movement against the Nazi regime during World War II.

• Ferdinand Tonnies

  German sociologist (Born 1855).

• Martin Hannett

  record producer (Born 1948).

• James W Rouse

  American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (Born 1914).

• Charles Conder artist

  dies.

• Vicente Goicoechea Errasti composer

  dies at age 62.

• Edward Thomas poet

  killed in WWI.

• Vilhelm F K Bjerknes

  Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at age 89.

• Frank Lloyd Wright

  US architect (Guggenheim Museum, New York), dies at age 89.

• Zog I [Ahmed Zogu]

  King of Albania (1925-39), dies at age 65.

• Robert H G Havemann

  German chemist/dissident, dies.

• Basil Henry Blackwell

  British publisher, dies.

• Wouter Perquin

  journalist/Dutch Member of Parliament (KVP), dies at age 74.

• Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr

  Dutch Member of Parliament (1971-94), dies at age 71.

• Keith Watson

  British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at age 59.

• Raouf Khayrat

  Egyptian General-Major, murdered.

• James Bullock

  colliery manager, dies at age 92.

• Maisie Fitter

  editor/conservationist, dies at age 83.

• Richard Thomas Condon

  author, dies at age 81.

• Georg Elser

  failed assassin of Hitler (Born 1903).

• Karl Sack

  German jurist, member of the German Resistance (Born 1896).

• CEM Joad

  English philosopher and broadcaster (Born 1891).

• Bint al-Huda

  Islamic writer (Born 1938).

• Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

  Islamic philosopher and economist (Born 1935).

• Joseph B Soloveitchik

  American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher (Born 1903).

• David Prater

  American singer (Sam & Dave) (Born 1937).

• Mae Boren Axton

  American singer and songwriter (Born 1914).

• Earl Bramblett

  American murderer (Born 1942).

• Vilgot Sjoman

  Swedish writer and film director (Born 1924).

• Egon Bondy

  Czech philosopher and writer (Born 1930).

• Zoltan Varga

  Hungarian footballer (Born 1945).

• Aladar Kovacsi

  Hungarian modern pentathlon Olympic champion (1952, Helsinki) (Born 1932).

• Jean Mogin

  Belgian poet, dies at age 64.

• Pat Flaherty

  American racecar driver (Born 1926).

• Eddie Cochems

  father of the Forward Pass in American football (Born 1877).

• Hans Fruhstorfer

  German entomologist and explorer (d. 1922).

• Helene Hanff

  American author and screenwriter (d. 1997).

• Clough Williams-Ellis

  English-Welsh architect designed the Portmeirion Village (d. 1978).

• Billy Hitchcock

  American baseball player, coach, and official (Born 1916).

• Nick Adenhart

  American baseball player (Born 1986).

• Tom Cora

  American cellist and composer (Skeleton Crew Third Person and Curlew) (d. 1998).

• Emilio Serrano y Ruiz

  Composer, dies at 89.

• Richard Condon

  American author and screenwriter (d. 1996).

• Gustaf Tenggren

  Swedish-American illustrator and animator (d. 1970).

• Mrs Patrick Campbell

  English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide).

• Konrad Friedrich Noetel

  Composer, dies at 43.

• Akio Yashiro

  Composer, dies at 46.

• Wilfred Pelletier

  Symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85.

• Sandy Becker

  New York City Kiddie TV Show host ( Show), dies at age 74.

• Sadiq Hidajat

  Persian writer (Hadji Aga).

• Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Hans Oster

  German General, member of the German Resistance (Born 1887).

• Philip Greeley Clapp

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Staats Cotsworth

  Dies at 71.

• Kathleen Burke
• Ruth Hammond

  Dies in her sleep at 96.

• Helena Modrzejewska

  Polish-American actress (Born 1840).

• James Hope Moulton

  British scholar of Classical Greek (Born 1863).

• King Zog

  of Albania (Born 1895).

• Isabella II Queen of Spain (1833-68)

  dies at age 73.

• Hans von Dohnanyi

  German jurist, member of the German Resistance (Born 1902).

• Sutan Sjahrir

  premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at age 57.

• Gale McGee

  American Senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at age 77.

• Wilhelm Canaris

  German military Admiral; involved in the assassination attempt against Hitler on 7/20/1944.

• George Carpenter

  American 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948).

• Sigfrid Karg-Elert

  German composer and educator (d. 1933).

• Dagmar Nordstrom

  American singer-songwriter and pianist (Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1976).

• Mauritius H Binger

  Director / producer (Living Ladder).

• Juan Belmonte

  Spanish bullfighter, considered by many to have been the greatest matador of all time.

• Paul Antonin Vidal

  Composer, dies at 67.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Macklemore - Thrift Shop
• 2012 Fun. - We Are Young
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 Rihanna - Rude Boy
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
• 2007 Akon - Don't Matter
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
• 2001 Crazy Town - Butterfly
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 TLC - No Scrubs
• 1998 K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life
• 1997 Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
• 1996 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
• 1991 Gloria Estefan - Coming Out Of The Dark
• 1990 Taylor Dayne - Love Will Lead You Back
• 1989 Roxette - The Look
• 1988 Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
• 1987 Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
• 1986 Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
• 1985 Phil Collins - One More Night
• 1984 Kenny Loggins - Footloose
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
• 1981 Blondie - Rapture
• 1980 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
• 1979 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 ABBA - Dancing Queen
• 1976 Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
• 1975 Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You
• 1974 Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling
• 1973 Vicki Lawrence - The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
• 1972 America - A Horse With No Name
• 1971 The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Tommy Roe - Dizzy
• 1968 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
• 1967 The Turtles - Happy Together
• 1966 The Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul And Inspiration
• 1965 Freddie and the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 The Chiffons - He's So Fine
• 1962 Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel
• 1961 The Marcels - Blue Moon
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Frankie Avalon - Venus
• 1958 The Champs - Tequila
• 1957 Andy Williams - Butterfly
• 1955 Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision