October 9 Zodiac, Events, Birthdays and Holidays

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 9. From 1900 until now. October 9 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include John Lennon (1940), France Gall (1947) and Laure Manaudou (1986). Several movies were released around October 9 over the years, such as Let the Right One In (English Subtitled) in 2022 directed by Tomas Alfredson and Legends of the Hidden Temple in 2021 directed by .
But much more happened on October 9 over the years: find out below

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2018 American Music Awards 2018: Taylor Swift, an American singer, wins four trophies including Artist of The Year. She also holds 23 American Music Awards. Whitney Houston was beaten by Taylor Swift.
2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: The Nobel Prize Committee awards American Richard Thaler, the Sveriges Rinksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memoriam Alfred Nobel, "for his contributions in behavioral economics." His research focuses on the psychology and conflict between what we plan to do for the financial future and what we plan to do for the present. (Nobel Prize.org),
2016 Conflict between Kurdish and Turkish Kurds (2015-present). A PKK car bomb killed at least 17 people in Turkey's southeast Hakkari Province.
2015 Iranian state television reports that Revolutionary Guard brigadier General Hossein Hamadani was killed by Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant militants in Aleppo. This is the latest of a series of Iranian commanders who have been killed in Syria and Iraq in the past six months.
2014 Al-Qaeda insurgency: At least 20 people are killed in a suicide bombing attack in Tahrir Square, Yemen's capital Sana'a.
2013 An estimated 60 people have been killed in clashes between former Seleka rebels and local militias in Central African Republic.
2012 Syrian civil war: A suicide bomber attacks an intelligence agency building in Damascus. Several people are reported to have been killed. Al-Nusra Front rebels claim responsibility.
2011 Libyan civil war 2011: The stronghold of Sirte, the ex-dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is close to being overthrown by the National Transitional Council forces, who are reportedly about to capture the city's hospital, airport, and conference centre.
2010 Two other Taliban leaders and insurgents were killed during a fight with Nato forces in the Murghab district of western Badghis province.
2009 NASA's Lunar Precursor Robic Program: First lunar impact of Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts.
2008 General Motors Corp shares drop to US$4.65, their lowest level since 1950. The market capitalization falls to US$2.6billion, lower than the value of $4billion in March 1929.
2007 SAB Miller and Molson Coors have announced a joint venture called MillerCoors to be more competitive with Anheuser-Busch on the US market.
2006 North Korea claims it has conducted its first ever nuclear test.
2005 Donald Tusk, the frontrunner of the liberal (libertarian), Civic Platform party, received approximately 35.8% of votes in the Polish presidential election. This is slightly more than Lech Kaczynski, who was 33.3% behind the conservative Law and Justice Party. On October 23, Tusk will face Kaczynski in a run-off election.
2004 Israeli troops kill Abed Rauf Nabhan (a Hamas leader) in the northern Gaza Strip as he prepares for firing an anti-tank missile on Israeli tanks in Jebaliya. According to the Israeli military, Nabhan is responsible for the rocket attack that resulted in the deaths of two children from Israel in Sderot on Sukkot eve.
2003 The Mission: Space attraction opens at Walt Disney World's Epcot. It cost US$150million to build.
2002 The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops to 7,286.27, the lowest level since October 1997.
2001 Anthrax letters continue to be mailed from Princeton (New Jersey) to the U.S. Senators Tom Daschle from South Dakota and Patrick Leahy from Vermont.
1999 The last flight of the SR-71.
1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1995 1995 Palo Verde derailment: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1994 Austrian parliamentary election
1992 Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York
1991 On Borrowed Time opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 99 performances
1990 David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1989 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
1988 17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium
1987 Japanese bank buys Lady McGill stamp for $1,100,000
1986 Phantom of the Opera premeires in London
1985 Tango Argentino opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 performances
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1983 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1982 Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead
1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1979 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
1978 12th Country Music Association Award
1977 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
1976 Robber Bridegroom opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco, California.
1974 Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager
1973 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
1972 Dude opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances
1971 Japans Emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence.
1968 WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery
1963 British Premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
1962 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
1961 US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to Police
1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass
1959 1st phone call between auto and plane (Delaware)
1958 New York Yankees beat Milwaukee Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series - Yankees appear in 9 and win 7 of last ten World Series.
1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1956 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1954 KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 British Premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1951 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
1950 Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
1949 New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers four games to one in 46th World Series.
1948 WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1947 High Button Shoes opens at Century Theater NYC for 727 performances
1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
1942 The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1941 A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1940 World War II: Battle of Britain : During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1938 A Copland and E Lorings ballet Billy the Kid, premieres in Chicago
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1934 Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1928 New York Yankees sweep Saint Louis Cardinals in 25th World Series; Babe Ruth hits three home run in game - New York Yankees become first to sweep consecutive World Series.
1927 The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Vera Cruz.
1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1922 Sir William Horwood, London Metropolitan Police Service commissioner, is poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates.
1920 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
1918 Landgrave Friedrich Karl of Hessen-Kassel is elected King of Finland.
1916 Babe Ruth pitches and wins longest World Series game (14 innings) 2-1.
1915 Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
1914 World War I: Siege of Antwerp : Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1913 Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1911 An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1909 Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
1907 Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1905 Philadelphia Athletics meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
1903 11 (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hours (NYC)
1900 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
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