Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
October 9
| 28 BC | The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome. | |
| 1470 | Henry VI of England restored to the throne. | |
| 1760 | Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting. | |
| 1779 | The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton. | |
| 1781 | Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown. | |
| 1825 | The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on the sloop Restaurationen. | |
| 1863 | Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga after attacking Union General William Rosecrans' supply and communication lines all around east Tennessee. | |
| 1888 | The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public. | |
| 1914 | Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege. | |
| 1934 | In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations. | |
| 1941 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships. | |
| 1946 | Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York. | |
| 1949 | Harvard Law School begins admitting women. | |
| 1950 | U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. | |
| 1983 | The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed. | |
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| 1837 | Francis Parker, educator and founder of progressive elementary schools. | |
| 1859 | Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer who was falsely accused of giving French military secrets to foreign powers. | |
| 1873 | Charles Rudolph Walgreen, "the father of the modern drugstore." | |
| 1879 | Max von Laue, German physicist. | |
| 1899 | Bruce Catton, U.S. historian and journalist, famous for his works on the Civil War. | |
| 1909 | Jacques Tati, French actor and director. | |
| 1940 | John Lennon, English musician, one of the Beatles. | |
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1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland"
1446 The Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1701 Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale) is chartered in New Haven
1837 Steamboat "Home" sinks NC coast killing 100 people
1855 Joshua Stoddard patents the first calliope
1876 The first 2-way telephone conversation over outdoor wires
1877 The American Humane Association is organized in Cleveland
1888 The Public is admitted to the Washington Monument
1903 11" of rainfall in 24 hours is recorded in New York City
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes the first president to attend a World Series game
1930 The first transcontinental flight by a woman is completed by Laura Ingalls
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1946 The first electric blanket is manufactured and sold for $39.50
1947 The first telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1962 NASA test pilot John B McKay takes the X-15 to an altitude of 39,200 meters
1963 Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
1967 Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia
1969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares its independence
1973 Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1980 The first consumer use of home banking by computer – Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1982 Melissa Poirier was born
1983 Four South Korean cabinet ministers are assassinated in Rangoon, Burma
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes the first US woman to walk in space
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the 5th federal official in history to be removed from office through impeachment
1989 Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition appears on newsstands
1990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" in honor of John Lennon
1990 Saddam Hussein threatens to attack Israel with a new missile