April 9
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April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years ). There are 266 days remaining.
Events
193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans ).
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz : Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.
1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River , claims it for France and names it Louisiana .
1865 - American Civil War : Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia , effectively ending the war .
1867 - Alaska purchase : By a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska .
1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act .
1913 - The Brooklyn Dodgers ' Ebbets Field opens.
1916 - World War I : Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle .
1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on the Vimy Ridge .
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 .
1940 - World War II : Germany invades Denmark and Norway .
1942 - World War II: Battle of Bataan /Bataan Death March - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula .
1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas , Oklahoma , and Kansas .
1947 - The Journey of Reconciliation , the first interracial Freedom Ride of 16 black and white men traveling through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws begins. The riders, sponsored by CORE and the Fellowship of Reconciliation , are seeking to force southern states to enforce the Supreme Court 's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned segregation in interstate travel.
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán 's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo ), and a further ten years of violence in all of Colombia (La violencia ).
1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin .
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film , entitled House of Wax 1959 - Mercury program : NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
1969 - The "Chicago Eight " plead not guilty on federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago .
1986 - The government of France rules against the privatization of French automaker Renault .
1987 - Dikye Baggett becomes the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson's disease .
1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union .
1992 - Manuel Noriega is convicted of eight crimes.
1992 - John Major wins the UK general election.
1998 - The National Prisoner of War Museum is dedicated in Andersonville, Georgia , on the site of an American Civil War POW camp.
1999 - Ismail Omar Guelleh is elected president of Djibouti .
1999 - Nigerian President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is assassinated.
2002 - The funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey .
2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq : The Ba'ath regime headed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq is deposed.
2005 - HRH Charles, Prince of Wales weds Camilla Parker Bowles
Births
1336 - Tamerlane , also known as Timur, Turkic conqueror, in Transoxiana (d. 1405 )
1773 - Étienne Aignan , translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (d. 1824 )
1794 - Theobald Boehm , inventor of the modern flute .
1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel , engineer (d. 1859 )
1821 - Charles Baudelaire , French poet (d. 1867 )
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge , photographer, motion picture pioneer (d. 1904 )
1835 - King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909 )
1848 - Helene Lange , teacher (d. 1930 )
1865 - Erich Ludendorff , German general in World War I (d. 1937 )
1867 - Chris Watson , third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941 )
1888 - Sol Hurok , impresario (d. 1974 )
1889 - Efrem Zimbalist , Russian violinist (d. 1985 )
1897 - John B. Gambling , radio talk-show host (d. 1974 )
1898 - Paul Robeson , singer, political activist (d. 1976 )
1898 - Curly Lambeau , American football coach, executive (d. 1965 )
1903 - Ward Bond , actor (d. 1960 )
1904 - Sharkey Bonano , jazz musician (d. 1972 )
1905 - J. William Fulbright , former Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995 )
1906 - Antal Dorati , Hungarian conductor (d. 1988 )
1908 - Victor Vasarely , painter (d. 1997 )
1910 - Abraham Ribicoff , American politician (d. 1998 )
1912 - Lew Kopelew (Lev Kopelev), author (d. 1997 )
1917 - Brad Dexter , American actor (d. 2002 )
1918 - Jørn Utzon , Danish architect
1919 - J. Presper Eckert , inventor of the ENIAC computer
1925 - Heinz Nixdorf , industrialist (d. 1985 )
1926 - Hugh Hefner , editor, publisher
1928 - Tom Lehrer , musician and satirist
1932 - Carl Perkins , country and rockabilly musician (d. 1998 )
1932 - Jim Fowler , American naturalist
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo , actor
1935 - Avery Schreiber , actor (d. 2002 )
1937 - Marty Krofft , children's television producer
1938 - Viktor Chernomyrdin , Russian politician
1939 - Michael Learned , American actress
1942 - Brandon De Wilde , American actor (d. 1972 )
1945 - Peter Gammons , baseball sportswriter , journalist
1953 - Hal Ketchum , American country musician
1954 - Dennis Quaid , actor (The Right Stuff Any Given Sunday Traffic 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith , United Kingdom MP
1957 - Seve Ballesteros , Spanish golfer
1965 - Jeff Zucker , American television executive
1966 - Cynthia Nixon , American actress
1972 - Emir Delalic Zeko , Bosnian designer
1974 - Jenna Jameson , Porn Star
1975 - Robbie Fowler , football (soccer ) striker
1978 - Jorge Andrade , football player
1978 - Rachel Stevens , singer
1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam , actress (Rudy Huxtable, The Cosby Show )
Deaths
491 - Zeno , Byzantine emperor
715 - Pope Constantine
1024 - Pope Benedict VIII
1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099 )
1483 - Edward IV of England .
1484 - Edward of Middleham , Prince of Wales .
1553 - François Rabelais , writer (b. c. 1493 )
1557 - Mikael Agricola , de facto founder of written Finnish (b. 1510 )
1626 - Sir Francis Bacon , philosopher, statesman, essayist (b. 1561 )
1804 - Jacques Necker , French statesman, finance minister of Louis XVI (b. 1732 )
1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul , French chemist (b. 1786 )
1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell , actress (b. 1865 )
1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva , Soviet World War II heroine, killed by Nazis
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris , chief of the Abwehr 1887 )
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian and martyr, hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp (b. 1906 )
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (b. 1903 ).
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright , architect (b. 1867 )
1961 - King Zog of Albania
1963 - Eddie Edwards , jazz musician (b. 1891 )
1976 - Phil Ochs , singer (b. 1940 )
1988 - Brook Benton , American actor
1991 - Martin Hannett , record producer (b. 1948 )
1996 - James W. Rouse , developer, activist, philanthropist
1996 - Richard Condon , American novelist
1997 - Laura Nyro , American singer, songwriter
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , Niger politician, general
2001 - Willie Stargell , American baseball player
2002 - Leopold Vietoris , Austrian mathematician (b. 1891 )
2005 - Andrea Dworkin , American feminist and writer (b. 1946 )
Holidays and observances
External links
April 8 - April 10 - March 9 - May 9 -- listing of all days
