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October 9

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

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays 5 Recorded this date

Events

• 1000 - Leif Ericsson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
• 1446 - The Hangul alphabet is created in Korea.
• 1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
• 1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
• 1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
• 1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
• 1820 - Guayaquil declared independence from Ecuador.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
• 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
• 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• 1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• 1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
• 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
• 1942 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
• 1944 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
• 1957 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
• 1963 - Uganda becomes a republic.
• 1963 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when the Vaiont Dam breaks after a large landslide behind the dam causes water to overtop it.
• 1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 1969 - In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the "Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
• 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
• 1986 - United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
• 1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
• 1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.

Births

• 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal
• 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
• 1757 - Charles X of France
• 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
• 1835 - Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (d. 1921)
• 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
• 1873 - Charles Walgreen, entrepreneur (d. 1939)
• 1886 - Rube Marquard, baseball star (d. 1980)
• 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
• 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (d. 1944)
• 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
• 1892 - Ivo Andrić, writer (d. 1975)
• 1900 - Alastair Sim, actor (d. 1976)
• 1907 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (d. 2001)
• 1909 - Jacques Tati, actor (d. 1982)
• 1909 - Frederick Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1911 - Joe Rosenthal, photographer
• 1923 - Fyvush Finkel, actor
• 1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer
• 1937 - Brian Blessed, actor
• 1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
• 1940 - John Lennon, British musician, songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
• 1944 - John Entwistle, British bassist of The Who (d. 2002)
• 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (d. 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 (d. 1994)
• 1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1975 - Sean Lennon, musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Deaths

• 1047 - Pope Clement II
• 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 Boothe 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 invention of Hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.

Recorded this date

• 1897 "Gayest Manhattan"
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman with piano Fred Gaisberg
• 1906 "Some One Looks Good To Some One" (Weaver)
  - Billy Murray & Ada Jones
• 1912 "The Funny Little Melody" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Walter Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhart
• 1912 "Hitchy-Koo" (w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams)
  - Collins & Harlan
• 1914 "Back To The Carolina You Love" (w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Peerless Quartette
• 1919 "I Might Be Your "Once-In-A-While"" (w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
  - Yerkes' Jazarimba Orchestra
• 1922 "Song Of The Volga Boatman" (trad Russ. arr. Koenemann)
  - Feodor Chaliapin with O/George W. Byng
• 1923 "I'm Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City" (w.m. Lou Davis, Henry Santly & Abel Baer)
  - The Georgians
• 1924 "Rose Marie" (w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml)
  - Carl Fenton & his Orchestra
• 1925 "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?" (w. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer)
  - Lewis James
• 1929 "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" (w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson)
  - Frank Luther with The High Hatters
• 1929 "Without A Song" (w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans)
  - Bing Crosby with Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra*1929 "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" (w.m. Elmer Schoebel, Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn & Billy Meyers)
  - Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
• 1929 "Great Day!" (w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans)
  - [[The Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby]], Al Rinker & Harry Barris) with Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
• 1929 "I've Got What It Takes" (Williams, Jenkins)
  - Margaret Webster with Clarence Williams' Washboard Band
• 1930 "Body And Soul" (w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. John W. Green)
  - Louis Armstrong
• 1931 "Mausie" (w. (Eng) Harry Graham m. Paul Abraham)
  - Oskar Denes & Barbara Diu with O/Debroy Somers
• 1931 "Prisoner Of Love" (w. Leo Robin m. Russ Columbo & Clarence Gaskill)
  - Russ Columbo with O/Nat Shilkret
• 1931 "Goodnight, Sweetheart" (w.m. Ray Noble, James Campbell & Reg Connelly)
  - Russ Columbo with O/Nat Shilkret
• 1931 "Time On My Hands" (w. Harold Adamson & Mack Gordon)
  - Russ Columbo with O/Nat Shilkret
• 1931 "This Is The Missus" (w.m. Lew Brown & Ray Henderson)
  - Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
• 1931 "Dreaming Of You"
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
• 1931 "Guilty" (w. Gus Kahn m. Richard A. Whiting & Harry Akst)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
• 1931 "The Birthday Of A Kiss" (w.m. John Jacob Loeb, Rudy Vallee & Paul Francis Webster)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
• 1931 "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" (w.m. Elmer Schoebel, Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn & Billy Meyers)
  - Mills Brothers
• 1931 "Tiger Rag" (w. Harry De Costa m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields)
  - Mills Brothers
• 1933 "The Last Round-Up" (w.m. Billy Hill)
  - Gene Autry
• 1934 "Isle Of Capri" (w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Will Grosz)
  - Gracie Fields with O/Percival Mackey
• 1935 "The Piccolino" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Harry Roy & his Orchestra
• 1935 "Dinah" (w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Akst)
  - Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1935 "Bugle Call Rag" (m. Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel)
  - Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1936 "Shoe Shine Boy" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Saul Chaplin)
  - Jones-Smith, Incorporated
• 1936 "Home To Hawaii" (w.m. Hugh Holm)
  - Hugh Holm
• 1937 "Home Town" (w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr)
  - Flanagan & Allen
• 1937 "I'm Happy When You're Happy" (Lerner, Goodhart, Hoffman)
  - Jack Cooper with Ronnie Munro & New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
• 1939 "The Daughter of Madamoiselle From Armentieres"
  - Sid Buckman with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Good Luck Until We Meet Again"
  - Sid Buckman with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Love Never Grows Old"
  - Bruce Trent with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Bon Voyage, Cherie" (Hill, Noel, Pelosi)
  - Dolly Elsie with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Run, Rabbit, Run" (w. Noel Gay & Ralph T. Butler m. Noel Gay)
  - Sam Browne with London Piano Accordion Band
• 1939 "Bluebirds In The Moonlight" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
  - Marion Hutton with Glenn Miller & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Speaking Of Heaven" (w. Mack Gordon m. James Van Heusen)
  - Ray Eberle with Glenn Miller & his Orchestra
• 1940 "Two Dreams Met" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren)
  - Kate Smith with O/Jack Miller
• 1940 "Along The Santa Fe Trail" (w. Al Dubin & Edwina Coolidge m. Will Grosz)
  - Kate Smith with O/Jack Miller
• 1940 "Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga" (w. Charles Newman m. James V. Monaco)
  - Paula Greene with Joe Loss & his Band
• 1940 "Never Took A Lesson In My Life" (w.m. Jack Lawrence & Dianne Foore)
  - Elsie Carlisle
• 1941 "Cielito Lindo" (w.m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez)
  - Deanna Durbin with O/Victor Young
• 1941 "La Estrellita" (m. Maurice Ponce)
  - Deanna Durbin with O/Victor Young
• 1941 "A Week-End In Havana" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren)
  - Carmen Miranda
• 1941 "The Man With The Lollipop Song" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren)
  - Carmen Miranda
• 1941 "Sand In My Shoes" (w. Frank Loesser m. Victor Schertzinger)
  - Marjorie Kingsley with Harry Roy & his Band
• 1945 "Aren't You Glad You're You?" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen)
  - The Pied Pipers
• 1945 "In The Moon Mist" (w. & adapt. Jack Lawrence)
  - Pied Pipers
• 1945 "In The Middle Of May" (w. Al Stillman m. Fred Ahlert,)
  - Pied Pipers
• 1946 "Goodnight Darling" (Heath)
  - Anne Shelton with O/Stanley Black
• 1946 "Guilty" (w. Gus Kahn m. Richard A. Whiting & Harry Akst)
  - Margaret Whiting with O/Jerry Gray
• 1946 "Oh, But I Do!" (w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz)
  - Margaret Whiting with O/Jerry Gray
• 1946 "I Haven't Got A Worry In The World" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers)
  - Hildegarde with O/Percy Faith
• 1946 "La Vie En Rose" (w. (Eng) Mack David (Fr) Edith Piaf m. Louiguy)
  - Édith Piaf with O/Guy Luypaerts
• 1947 "Somewhere A Voice Is Calling" (w. Eileen Newton m. Arthur F. Tate)
  - Peter Yorke & his Concert Orchestra
• 1947 "Love, Here Is My Heart" (w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu)
  - Peter Yorke & his Concert Orchestra
• 1947 "Beg Your Pardon" (w.m. Francis Craig & Beasley Smith)
  - Marjorie Hughes with Frankie Carle
• 1947 "Blue Moon" (w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers)
  - Billy Eckstine with O/Hugo Winterhalter
• 1947 "The Gentleman Is A Dope" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers)
  - Monica Lewis
• 1950 "April In Paris" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Axel Stordahl
• 1950 "Nevertheless" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/George Siravo
• 1950 "Come Back To Sorrento" (w.m. Ernesto de Curtis & Claude Aveling)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Axel Stordahl
• 1950 "I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest" (w. Mickey Stoner & Martin Block m. Harold Green)
  - Frank Sinatra w. The Whipoorwills with O/Axel Stordahl
• 1950 "Nobody's Chasing Me" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Evelyn Knight with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
• 1952 "Twisted" (w. Annie Ross m. Wardell Gray)
  - Annie Ross with Teacho Wiltshire Band
• 1957 "Catch A Falling Star" (w.m. Lee Pockriss & Paul Vance)
  - Perry Como w. Ray Charles Singers with O/Mitchell Ayres
• 1957 "Twenty-Six Miles" (w.m. Bruce Bell & Glen Larson)
  - Four Preps with O/Joe Maphis
• 1958 "C'mon Everybody" (w.m. Eddie Cochran & Jerry Capeheart)
  - Eddie Cochran
• 1964 "Dance, Dance, Dance"
  - The Beach Boys

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