October 9

October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining.

Events:

• 1000 - Leif Ericsson discovers Vinland
• 1446 - Hangul alphabet created in Korea
• 1635 - Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident.
• 1701 - Yale University chartered in New Haven, Connecticut
• 1776 - Mission San Francisco de Asis founded in San Francisco, California
• 1820 - Guayaquil secedes from Ecuador
• 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire burns out
• 1888 - The Washington Monument opens to the public
• 1914 - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops
• 1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral bombed by German airplanes
• 1942 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy
• 1957 - Neil H. McElroy[?] was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States
• 1961 - Tanganyika proclaims its independence
• 1963 - Uganda becomes a republic
• 1970 - Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia

Births:

• 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
• 1757 - Charles X of France
• 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
• 1835 - Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (+ 1921)
• 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (+ 1935)
• 1873 - Charles Walgreen[?], entrepreneur (+ 1939)
• 1886 - Rube Marquard[?], baseball star (+ 1980)
• 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
• 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (+ 1944)
• 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
• 1900 - Alastair Sim, actor (+ 1976)
• 1907 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (+ 2001)
• 1909 - Jacques Tati, actor (+ 1982)
• 1909 - Frederick Coggan[?], Archbishop of Canterbury (+ 2000)
• 1923 - Fyvush Finkel[?], actor
• 1937 - Brian Blessed[?], actor
• 1940 - John Lennon, British musician, songwriter (+ 1980)
• 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
• 1944 - John Entwistle, British bassist of The Who (+ 2002)
• 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (+ 1987)
• 1948 - Jackson Browne, musician
• 1953 - Tony Shalhoub[?], actor
• 1954 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
• 1962 - Tommy Lee, American drummer
• 1969 - P.J. Harvey, musician
• 1970 - Savannah[?], pornographic movie actress (+ 1994)
• 1975 - Sean Lennon, musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Deaths:

• 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
• 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary
• 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer
• 1934 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia[?]
• 1941 - Helen Morgan[?], singer, actress
• 1958 - Pope Pius XII
• 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player.
• 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader - executed.
• 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, actress
• 1974 - Oskar Schindler, businessman
• 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian musician
• 1987 - Clare Booth Luce[?], diplomat
• 1991 - Thalmus Rasulala[?], actor
• 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1996 - Walter Kerr[?], movie critic
• 2000 - David Dukes[?], actor
• 2001 - Dagmar[?], television personality

Holidays:

October 8 - October 10 - September 9 - November 9 - more historical anniversaries