June 9
Events
68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide , imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate -imposed death by flogging .
721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse .
1310 - Duccio 's Maestŕ Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance , is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena , Italy .
1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River .
1650 - The Harvard Corporation , the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard , is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas .
1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War .
1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia .
1772 - The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island .
1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna : New European political situation is set.
1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1863 - American Civil War : the Battle of Brandy Station , Virginia .
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey , a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack , New Jersey , becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan , New York , to San Francisco, California .
1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania .
1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University .
1923 - Bulgaria 's military takes over the government in a coup .
1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane , the Southern Cross .
1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers , allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone .
1934 - Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen .
1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement : the Republic of China , under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1944 - World War II : the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia , occupied by Finland since 1941 .
1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand . He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1953 - Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence : a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
1954 - McCarthyism : Joseph Welch , special counsel for the United States Army , lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army - giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain ).
1958 - HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport , (LGW ), Crawley , West Sussex , United Kingdom .
1959 - The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles .
1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War .
1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy .
1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown .
1974 - Diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Soviet Union are established.
1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991 ).
1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster .
1991 - The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party .
1999 - Kosovo War : the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty .
2008 - In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin , Lake Delton drained as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back .
Births
1508 - Primo? Trubar , Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586 )
1580 - Daniel Heinsius , Flemish scholar (d. 1655 )
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst , German composer (d. 1666 )
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648 )
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705 )
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682 )
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725 )
1686 - Andrei Osterman , Russian statesman (d. 1747 )
1768 - Samuel Slater , American industrialist (d. 1835 )
1781 - George Stephenson , English mechanical engineer (d.1848 )
1810 - Otto Nicolai , German composer (d. 1849 )
1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle , German astronomer (d. 1910 )
1843 - Bertha von Suttner , Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914 )
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914 )
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher , Danish painter (d. 1927 )
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte , French politician (d. 1921 )
1865 - Albéric Magnard , French composer (d. 1914 )
1865 - Carl Nielsen , Danish composer (d. 1931 )
1875 - Henry Hallett Dale , English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968 )
1882 - Bobby Kerr , Canadian sprinter (d. 1963 )
1890 - Leslie Banks , British actor (d. 1952 )
1891 - Cole Porter , American composer and lyricist (d. 1964 )
1893 - Irish Meusel , American baseball player (d. 1963 )
1898 - Luigi Fagioli , Italian race car driver (d. 1952 )
1900 - Fred Waring , American bandleader (d. 1984 )
1911 - George Webb , British actor (d. 1998 )
1912 - Ingolf Dahl , American composer (d. 1970 )
1915 - Les Paul , American guitarist
1916 - Robert McNamara , United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg , American Jewish scholar (d. 2006 )
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr. , American poet and aviator (d. 1941 )
1922 - Fernand Seguin , Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988 )
1922 - George Axelrod , American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003 )
1925 - Keith Laumer , science fiction writer (d. 1993 )
1929 - Johnny Ace , American singer (d. 1954 )
1930 - Barbara , French singer (d. 1997 )
1931 - Jackie Mason , American comedian
1931 - Joe Santos , American actor
1931 - Bill Virdon , American baseball player and manager
1934 - Jackie Wilson , American singer (d. 1984 )
1936 - Mick O'Dwyer , Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 - Harald Rosenthal , German biologist
1938 - Charles Wuorinen , American composer
1939 - Ileana Cotruba? , Romanian soprano
1939 - David Hobbs , English race car driver and personality on American TV
1939 - Dick Vitale , American sportscaster
1939 - Charles Webb , author
1941 - Jon Lord , organist in Deep Purple
1943 - Joe Haldeman , science fiction writer
1945 - Luis Ocańa , Spanish cyclist (d. 1994 )
1945 - Nike Wagner , German woman of the theater
1947 - Kiran Bedi , Indian Police Service Officer
1947 - John Gurda , American historian
1948 - Gudrun Schyman , Swedish politician
1951 - Dave Parker , American baseball player
1951 - James Newton Howard , American film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman , Israeli singer (d. 2004 )
1954 - George Pérez , American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire , American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell , American author
1959 - Christian Wulff , German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony .
1960 - Steve Paikin , Canadian journalist
1961 - Michael J. Fox , Canadian-born actor
1961 - Aaron Sorkin , American writer
1963 - Johnny Depp , American actor
1963 - Gilad Atzmon , Israeli jazz musician and author
1963 - David Koepp , American screenwriter and director
1964 - Gloria Reuben , Canadian actress
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru , Japanese actress and singer
1968 - Niki Bakoyianni , Greek high jumper
1969 - Eric Wynalda , American footballer
1971 - Gilles De Bilde , Belgian footballer
1971 - John McKeown , Scottish musician (Yummy Fur , 1990s )
1971 - Rick Renstrom , American guitarist
1972 - Tomoe Hanba , Japanese voice actress
1973 - Tedy Bruschi , American football player
1973 - Laura Ponte , Spanish model and royal
1973 - Frederic Choffat , Swiss film director
1974 - Samoth , Norwegian guitarist (Emperor , Zyklon )
1974 - Tim Shaw , British radio personality
1974 - Randy Winn , American baseball player
1975 - Andrew Symonds , Australian cricketer
1975 - Otto Addo , Ghanaian footballer
1975 - Jeff Saturday , American football player
1977 - Roopa Mishra , Indian civil servant
1977 - Amisha Patel , Indian actress
1977 - Peja Stojakovic , Serbian basketball player
1978 - Shandi Finnessey , game hostess
1978 - Matthew Bellamy , British musician (Muse )
1978 - Miroslav Klose , German footballer
1978 - Michaela Conlin , American actress
1979 - Andrew Walker , Canadian actor
1980 - Mike Fontenot , American baseball player
1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema , Lesotho footballer
1980 - Udonis Haslem , American basketball player
1981 - Natalie Portman , Israeli-born actress
1981 - Vic Zhou , JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Anoushka Shankar , Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1982 - Christina Stürmer , Austrian singer
1983 - Alektra Blue , American porn star
1983 - Danny Richar , Dominican baseball player
1984 - Yulieski Gourriel , Cuban baseball player
1984 - Kaleth Morales , Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005 )
1984 - Wesley Sneijder , Dutch footballer
1984 - Masoud Shojaei , Iranian footballer
1985 - Sonam Kapoor , Indian actress
1985 - Sebastian Telfair , American basketball player
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero , Canadian actor
1986 - Kary Ng , Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 - Mae Whitman , American Actress
1993 - Danielle Chuchran , American actress
Deaths
62 - Claudia Octavia , wife of Nero (b. 40 )
68 - Nero , Roman Emperor (b. 37 )
373 - Ephrem the Syrian , Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba , Christian missionary (b. 521 )
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1361 - Philippe de Vitry , French composer (b. 1291 )
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget , English statesman (b. 1506 )
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret , Queen of Navarre (b. 1528 )
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins , Welsh composer (b. 1572 )
1716 - Banda Bahadur , Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon , French mystic (b. 1648 )
1834 - William Carey , one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761 )
1870 - Charles Dickens , English author (b. 1812 )
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes , French geologist (b. 1795 )
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi , Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs , Canadian explorer (b. 1863 )
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale , Romanian writter (b. 1852 )
1946 - Ananda Mahidol , Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925 )
1952 - Adolf Busch , German composer (b. 1891 )
1958 - Robert Donat , English actor (b. 1905 )
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus , German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876 )
1961 - Camille Guérin , French scientist (b. 1872 )
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879 )
1973 - Erich von Manstein , German military commander (b. 1887 )
1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias , Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899 )
1979 - Cyclone Taylor , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884 )
1981 - Allen Ludden , TV game show host (b. 1917 )
1989 - George Wells Beadle , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903 )
1989 - Rashid Behbudov , Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915 )
1991 - Claudio Arrau , Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903 )
1993 - Alexis Smith , Canadian actress (b. 1921 )
1994 - Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903 )
1997 - Stanley Knowles , Canadian politician (b. 1908 )
2000 - Jacob Lawrence , American painter (b. 1917 )
2004 - Rosey Brown , American football player (b. 1932 )
2004 - Brian Williamson , Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945 )
2006 - Drafi Deutscher , German Schlager singer (b. 1946 )
2007 - Frankie Abernathy , Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981 )
2008 - Algis Budrys , American writer (b. 1931 )
Holidays and observances
Catholicism
Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the island's three patron saints)
Saint Diomedes
Saint Edmund , bishop of Canterbury, confessor (Translation day)
Saint Efrem (Saint Ephraim ), deacon, Doctor of the Church
Saint Liborius , bishop (of LeMans), confessor
Saint Primus and Felicianus , martyrs [common]
Saint Pelagia , virgin, martyr
Lutheranism
Judaism
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