What Happened This Day In History - October 9

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 sloopRestaurationen.
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.
1999		Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" stealth reconnaissance aircraft.
2006		North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
Born on October 9
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, musician, singer, songwriter; one of the Beatles ("Imagine," "Give Peace a Chance").
1941		Brian Lamb, journalist, founder of C-SPAN cable network.
1941		Trent Lott, politician, Republican Senate Majority Whip (1995-96), Senate Majority Leader (1996–2001) and Minority Leader (2001-02); resigned during controversy over making remarks that praised Strom Thurmond’s 1948 presidential campaign that had called for preservation of racial segregation.
1948		Jackson Browne, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ("Running on Empty," "Take It Easy").
1974		Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, writer, radio host; prominent figure in Modern Orthodox Judaism.
1979		Chris O’Dowd, comedian, actor (The IT Crowd and Family Tree TV series,Bridesmaids).