June 9th All Events |
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| June 9th, 2068 (June 09 2068) | Event | Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging. | |
| June 9th, 2068 (June 09 2068) | Death | Nero, Roman Emperor (born in 37) | |
| June 9th, 2062 (June 09 2062) | Death | Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (born in 40) | |
| June 9th, 2008 (June 09 2008) | Event | In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drained as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back. | |
| June 9th, 2008 (June 09 2008) | Death | Algis Budrys, American writer (born in 1931) | |
| June 9th, 2007 (June 09 2007) | Death | Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (born in 1981) | |
| June 9th, 2006 (June 09 2006) | Death | Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (born in 1946) | |
| June 9th, 2004 (June 09 2004) | Death | Rosey Brown, American football player (born in 1932) | |
| June 9th, 2004 (June 09 2004) | Death | Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (born in 1945) | |
| June 9th, 2000 (June 09 2000) | Death | Jacob Lawrence, American painter (born in 1917) | |
| June 9th, 1999 (June 09 1999) | Event | Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty. | |
| June 9th, 1997 (June 09 1997) | Death | Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (born in 1908) | |
| June 9th, 1994 (June 09 1994) | Death | Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1903) | |
| June 9th, 1993 (June 09 1993) | Birth | Danielle Chuchran, American actress | |
| June 9th, 1993 (June 09 1993) | Death | Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (born in 1921) | |
| June 9th, 1991 (June 09 1991) | Event | The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party. | |
| June 9th, 1991 (June 09 1991) | Death | Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (born in 1903) | |
| June 9th, 1989 (June 09 1989) | Death | George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1903) | |
| June 9th, 1989 (June 09 1989) | Death | Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (born in 1915) | |
| June 9th, 1988 (June 09 1988) | Birth | Mae Whitman, American Actress | |
| June 9th, 1986 (June 09 1986) | Event | The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. | |
| June 9th, 1986 (June 09 1986) | Birth | Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor | |
| June 9th, 1986 (June 09 1986) | Birth | Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress | |
| June 9th, 1985 (June 09 1985) | Event | Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991). | |
| June 9th, 1985 (June 09 1985) | Birth | Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress | |
| June 9th, 1985 (June 09 1985) | Birth | Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player | |
| June 9th, 1984 (June 09 1984) | Birth | Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player | |
| June 9th, 1984 (June 09 1984) | Birth | Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (died in 2005) | |
| June 9th, 1984 (June 09 1984) | Birth | Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer | |
| June 9th, 1984 (June 09 1984) | Birth | Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer | |
| June 9th, 1983 (June 09 1983) | Birth | Alektra Blue, American porn star | |
| June 9th, 1983 (June 09 1983) | Birth | Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player | |
| June 9th, 1982 (June 09 1982) | Birth | Christina Sturmer, Austrian singer | |
| June 9th, 1981 (June 09 1981) | Birth | Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress | |
| June 9th, 1981 (June 09 1981) | Birth | Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model. | |
| June 9th, 1981 (June 09 1981) | Birth | Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar | Ravi Shankar Quotes |
| June 9th, 1981 (June 09 1981) | Death | Allen Ludden, TV game show host (born in 1917) | |
| June 9th, 1980 (June 09 1980) | Birth | Mike Fontenot, American baseball player | |
| June 9th, 1980 (June 09 1980) | Birth | Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer | |
| June 9th, 1980 (June 09 1980) | Birth | Udonis Haslem, American basketball player | |
| June 9th, 1979 (June 09 1979) | Birth | Andrew Walker, Canadian actor | |
| June 9th, 1979 (June 09 1979) | Death | Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1884) | |
| June 9th, 1978 (June 09 1978) | Event | 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. | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| June 9th, 1978 (June 09 1978) | Birth | Shandi Finnessey, game hostess | |
| June 9th, 1978 (June 09 1978) | Birth | Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse) | |
| June 9th, 1978 (June 09 1978) | Birth | Miroslav Klose, German footballer | |
| June 9th, 1978 (June 09 1978) | Birth | Michaela Conlin, American actress | |
| June 9th, 1977 (June 09 1977) | Birth | Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant | |
| June 9th, 1977 (June 09 1977) | Birth | Amisha Patel, Indian actress | |
| June 9th, 1977 (June 09 1977) | Birth | Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player | |
| June 9th, 1975 (June 09 1975) | Birth | Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer | |
| June 9th, 1975 (June 09 1975) | Birth | Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer | |
| June 9th, 1975 (June 09 1975) | Birth | Jeff Saturday, American football player | |
| June 9th, 1974 (June 09 1974) | Event | Diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Soviet Union are established. | |
| June 9th, 1974 (June 09 1974) | Birth | Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon) | |
| June 9th, 1974 (June 09 1974) | Birth | Tim Shaw, British radio personality | |
| June 9th, 1974 (June 09 1974) | Birth | Randy Winn, American baseball player | |
| June 9th, 1974 (June 09 1974) | Death | Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1899) | |
| June 9th, 1973 (June 09 1973) | Event | Secretariat wins the Triple Crown. | |
| June 9th, 1973 (June 09 1973) | Birth | Tedy Bruschi, American football player | |
| June 9th, 1973 (June 09 1973) | Birth | Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal | |
| June 9th, 1973 (June 09 1973) | Birth | Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director | |
| June 9th, 1973 (June 09 1973) | Death | Erich von Manstein, German military commander (born in 1887) | Erich von Manstein Quotes |
| June 9th, 1972 (June 09 1972) | Birth | Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress | |
| June 9th, 1971 (June 09 1971) | Birth | Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer | |
| June 9th, 1971 (June 09 1971) | Birth | John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s) | John Scott Quotes |
| June 9th, 1971 (June 09 1971) | Birth | Rick Renstrom, American guitarist | |
| June 9th, 1969 (June 09 1969) | Birth | Eric Wynalda, American footballer | |
| June 9th, 1968 (June 09 1968) | Event | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. | Robert F. Kennedy Quotes |
| June 9th, 1968 (June 09 1968) | Birth | Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper | |
| June 9th, 1967 (June 09 1967) | Event | Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War. | |
| June 9th, 1964 (June 09 1964) | Birth | Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress | |
| June 9th, 1964 (June 09 1964) | Birth | Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer | |
| June 9th, 1964 (June 09 1964) | Death | Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (born in 1879) | 1st Baron Beaverbrook Quotes |
| June 9th, 1963 (June 09 1963) | Birth | Johnny Depp, American actor | Johnny Depp Quotes |
| June 9th, 1963 (June 09 1963) | Birth | Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author | |
| June 9th, 1963 (June 09 1963) | Birth | David Koepp, American screenwriter and director | |
| June 9th, 1961 (June 09 1961) | Birth | Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor | |
| June 9th, 1961 (June 09 1961) | Birth | Aaron Sorkin, American writer | Aaron Sorkin Quotes |
| June 9th, 1961 (June 09 1961) | Death | Camille Guerin, French scientist (born in 1872) | |
| June 9th, 1960 (June 09 1960) | Birth | Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist | |
| June 9th, 1959 (June 09 1959) | Event | The USS George Washington is launchedied in It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. | George Washington Quotes |
| June 9th, 1959 (June 09 1959) | Birth | Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony. | |
| June 9th, 1959 (June 09 1959) | Death | Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1876) | |
| June 9th, 1958 (June 09 1958) | Event | HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom. | |
| June 9th, 1958 (June 09 1958) | Death | Robert Donat, English actor (born in 1905) | |
| June 9th, 1957 (June 09 1957) | Event | First ascent of Broad Peak (the world s 12th highest mountain). | |
| June 9th, 1956 (June 09 1956) | Birth | Patricia Cornwell, American author | |
| June 9th, 1954 (June 09 1954) | Event | McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Armygiving 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?" | Joseph McCarthy Quotes |
| June 9th, 1954 (June 09 1954) | Birth | George Perez, American comic book artist | |
| June 9th, 1954 (June 09 1954) | Birth | Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer | |
| June 9th, 1953 (June 09 1953) | Event | Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94. | |
| June 9th, 1952 (June 09 1952) | Birth | Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (died in 2004) | |
| June 9th, 1952 (June 09 1952) | Death | Adolf Busch, German composer (born in 1891) | |
| June 9th, 1951 (June 09 1951) | Birth | Dave Parker, American baseball player | |
| June 9th, 1951 (June 09 1951) | Birth | James Newton Howard, American film composer | |
| June 9th, 1948 (June 09 1948) | Birth | Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician | |
| June 9th, 1947 (June 09 1947) | Birth | Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer | |
| June 9th, 1947 (June 09 1947) | Birth | John Gurda, American historian | |
| June 9th, 1946 (June 09 1946) | Event | King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailandied in He is currently the world s longest reigning monarch. | |
| June 9th, 1946 (June 09 1946) | Death | Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (born in 1925) | |
| June 9th, 1945 (June 09 1945) | Birth | Luis Ocana, Spanish cyclist (died in 1994) | |
| June 9th, 1945 (June 09 1945) | Birth | Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater | |
| June 9th, 1944 (June 09 1944) | Event | World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. | |
| June 9th, 1943 (June 09 1943) | Birth | Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer | Joe Haldeman Quotes |
| June 9th, 1941 (June 09 1941) | Birth | Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple | |
| June 9th, 1939 (June 09 1939) | Birth | Ileana Cotrubas, Romanian soprano | |
| June 9th, 1939 (June 09 1939) | Birth | David Hobbs, English race car driver and personality on American TV | |
| June 9th, 1939 (June 09 1939) | Birth | Dick Vitale, American sportscaster | |
| June 9th, 1939 (June 09 1939) | Birth | Charles Webb, author | |
| June 9th, 1938 (June 09 1938) | Birth | Charles Wuorinen, American composer | |
| June 9th, 1937 (June 09 1937) | Birth | Harald Rosenthal, German biologist | |
| June 9th, 1936 (June 09 1936) | Birth | Mick O Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager | |
| June 9th, 1935 (June 09 1935) | Event | Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China. | |
| June 9th, 1934 (June 09 1934) | Event | Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen. | |
| June 9th, 1934 (June 09 1934) | Birth | Jackie Wilson, American singer (died in 1984) | |
| June 9th, 1931 (June 09 1931) | Birth | Jackie Mason, American comedian | |
| June 9th, 1931 (June 09 1931) | Birth | Joe Santos, American actor | |
| June 9th, 1931 (June 09 1931) | Birth | Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager | |
| June 9th, 1930 (June 09 1930) | Event | 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. | Al Capone Quotes |
| June 9th, 1930 (June 09 1930) | Birth | Barbara, French singer (died in 1997) | |
| June 9th, 1929 (June 09 1929) | Birth | Johnny Ace, American singer (died in 1954) | |
| June 9th, 1928 (June 09 1928) | Event | Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross. | |
| June 9th, 1925 (June 09 1925) | Birth | Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (died in 1993) | |
| June 9th, 1923 (June 09 1923) | Event | Bulgaria s military takes over the government in a coup. | |
| June 9th, 1922 (June 09 1922) | Event | First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University. | |
| June 9th, 1922 (June 09 1922) | Birth | John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (died in 1941) | Eric Gill Quotes |
| June 9th, 1922 (June 09 1922) | Birth | Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemistRadio and TV animator (died in 1988) | |
| June 9th, 1922 (June 09 1922) | Birth | George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (died in 2003) | |
| June 9th, 1921 (June 09 1921) | Birth | Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (died in 2006) | |
| June 9th, 1916 (June 09 1916) | Birth | Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank | Robert McNamara Quotes |
| June 9th, 1915 (June 09 1915) | Event | U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. | William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| June 9th, 1915 (June 09 1915) | Birth | Les Paul, American guitarist | |
| June 9th, 1912 (June 09 1912) | Birth | Ingolf Dahl, American composer (died in 1970) | |
| June 9th, 1912 (June 09 1912) | Death | Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (born in 1852) | |
| June 9th, 1911 (June 09 1911) | Birth | George Webb, British actor (died in 1998) | |
| June 9th, 1909 (June 09 1909) | Event | 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. | |
| June 9th, 1900 (June 09 1900) | Birth | Fred Waring, American bandleader (died in 1984) | |
| June 9th, 1898 (June 09 1898) | Birth | Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (died in 1952) | |
| June 9th, 1893 (June 09 1893) | Birth | Irish Meusel, American baseball player (died in 1963) | |
| June 9th, 1892 (June 09 1892) | Death | Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist | |
| June 9th, 1892 (June 09 1892) | Death | William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (born in 1863) | |
| June 9th, 1891 (June 09 1891) | Birth | Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (died in 1964) | |
| June 9th, 1890 (June 09 1890) | Birth | Leslie Banks, British actor (died in 1952) | |
| June 9th, 1882 (June 09 1882) | Birth | Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (died in 1963) | |
| June 9th, 1875 (June 09 1875) | Birth | Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died in 1968) | |
| June 9th, 1875 (June 09 1875) | Death | Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (born in 1795) | |
| June 9th, 1870 (June 09 1870) | Death | Charles Dickens, English author (born in 1812) | Charles Dickens Quotes |
| June 9th, 1865 (June 09 1865) | Birth | Alberic Magnard, French composer (died in 1914) | |
| June 9th, 1865 (June 09 1865) | Birth | Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (died in 1931) | |
| June 9th, 1863 (June 09 1863) | Event | American Civil War: the Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia. | |
| June 9th, 1856 (June 09 1856) | Event | 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts. | |
| June 9th, 1851 (June 09 1851) | Birth | Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (died in 1921) | |
| June 9th, 1849 (June 09 1849) | Birth | Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (died in 1927) | |
| June 9th, 1845 (June 09 1845) | Birth | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (died in 1914) | |
| June 9th, 1843 (June 09 1843) | Birth | Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died in 1914) | |
| June 9th, 1834 (June 09 1834) | Death | William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (born in 1761) | |
| June 9th, 1815 (June 09 1815) | Event | End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set. | |
| June 9th, 1812 (June 09 1812) | Birth | Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (died in 1910) | |
| June 9th, 1810 (June 09 1810) | Birth | Otto Nicolai, German composer (died in 1849) | |
| June 9th, 1790 (June 09 1790) | Event | The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States. | |
| June 9th, 1781 (June 09 1781) | Birth | George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d.1848) | |
| June 9th, 1772 (June 09 1772) | Event | The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island. | |
| June 9th, 1768 (June 09 1768) | Birth | Samuel Slater, American industrialist (died in 1835) | |
| June 9th, 1732 (June 09 1732) | Event | James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. | |
| June 9th, 1717 (June 09 1717) | Death | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (born in 1648) | |
| June 9th, 1716 (June 09 1716) | Death | Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed) | |
| June 9th, 1686 (June 09 1686) | Birth | Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (died in 1747) | |
| June 9th, 1672 (June 09 1672) | Birth | Tsar Peter I of Russia (died in 1725) | |
| June 9th, 1667 (June 09 1667) | Event | 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. | Ang Lee Quotes |
| June 9th, 1661 (June 09 1661) | Birth | Tsar Feodor III of Russia (died in 1682) | |
| June 9th, 1656 (June 09 1656) | Death | Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (born in 1572) | |
| June 9th, 1650 (June 09 1650) | Event | The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is establishedied in It is the first legal corporation in the Americas. | |
| June 9th, 1640 (June 09 1640) | Birth | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (died in 1705) | |
| June 9th, 1595 (June 09 1595) | Birth | King Wladislaus IV of Poland (died in 1648) | |
| June 9th, 1588 (June 09 1588) | Birth | Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (died in 1666) | |
| June 9th, 1583 (June 09 1583) | Death | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
| June 9th, 1580 (June 09 1580) | Birth | Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (died in 1655) | |
| June 9th, 1572 (June 09 1572) | Death | Jeanne d Albret, Queen of Navarre (born in 1528) | |
| June 9th, 1563 (June 09 1563) | Death | William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (born in 1506) | |
| June 9th, 1534 (June 09 1534) | Event | Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River. | |
| June 9th, 1508 (June 09 1508) | Birth | Primoz Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (died in 1586) | |
| June 9th, 1361 (June 09 1361) | Death | Philippe de Vitry, French composer (born in 1291) | |
| June 9th, 1310 (June 09 1310) | Event | Duccio s Maesta Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy. | |
| June 9th, 0721 (June 09 0721) | Event | Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. | |
| June 9th, 0630 (June 09 0630) | Death | King Shahrbaraz of Persia | |
| June 9th, 0597 (June 09 0597) | Death | St. Columba, Christian missionary (born in 521) | |
| June 9th, 0373 (June 09 0373) | Death | Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist | |
