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:

   * 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal
   * 1585 - Heinrich SchŸtz, 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
   * 1952 - Sharon Arden, Married Ozzy Osbourne On July 04, 1982
   * 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:

   * Hangul Day - South Korea: celebrating the native and scientific
     alphabet of Korea, the Hangul