October 9

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 Limelight in 1952 directed by Charles Chaplin and The Devil's Advocate in 1997 directed by Taylor Hackford.
But much more happened on October 9 over the years: find out below

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2018 American Music Awards of 2018: American singer Taylor Swift wins four trophies, including Artist of the Year, and holds 23 American Music Awards, beating Whitney Houston. (BBC News) (Sky News)
2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: The Nobel Prize committee awards American Richard Thaler the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for his contributions to behavioral economics." His work focuses on the psychology of the human conflict of what we plan for the financial present versus what we plan for the future. (Nobel Prize.org), (BBC)
2016 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present): A suspected PKK car bomb kills at least 17 people, and injures 27 others in Turkey's southeast Hakkâri Province. (The Independent)
2015 Iranian state television says Revolutionary Guard brigadier general, Hossein Hamadani, has been killed on the outskirts of Syria's Aleppo by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants. This is the latest in a string of high-ranking Iranian commanders killed in Iraq and Syria in the last six months. (Independent)
2014 al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: A suicide bomb attack kills at least 20 people in Tahrir Square in the Yemeni capital Sana'a. (Daily Star)
2013 Clashes between local militias and former Séléka rebels leave an estimated 60 people dead in Central African Republic. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian civil war:: A suicide bomb attack takes place on an intelligence agency building in Damascus, reportedly killing dozens of people. The rebel al-Nusra Front claims responsibility. (BBC)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war: ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte is reportedly close to being conquered by the forces of the National Transitional Council, who have captured the city's airport, hospital, university and conference centre. (BBC)
2010 A senior Taliban commander and two other insurgents were killed in a fire fight with Nato and Afghan forces in western Badghis province's Murghab district. (Dawn)
2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2008 General Motors Corp share price drops to US$4.65, its lowest level since 1950. Market capitalization drops to US$2.6 billion, lower than its value of about $4 billion in March 1929.
2007 SAB Miller and Molson Coors announce a joint venture, MillerCoors, to better compete with Anheuser-Busch in the US market.
2006 North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
2005 In the Polish presidential election, frontrunner Donald Tusk of the liberal (libertarian) Civic Platform party receives approximately 35.8% of the vote, slightly ahead of Lech Kaczyński of the conservative Law and Justice Party with 33.3%. A run-off election between Tusk and Kaczyński will take place on October 23. (BBC)
2004 In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli troops shoot and kill Abed Rauf Nabhan, a local Hamas leader, as he prepares to fire an anti-tank missile at Israeli tanks in Jebaliya. The Israeli military says that Nabhan was responsible for a rocket attack that killed two Israeli children in Sderot on Sukkot eve. (Maariv)
2003 The Mission: Space attraction opens in Epcot at Walt Disney World in Florida. The attraction cost US$150 million to build.
2002 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a low of 7,286.27, its lowest close since October 1997.
2001 The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to U.S. Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of 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 (23% extreme-right)
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 (Cleveland Indians)
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 (2)
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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