April 9th Events |
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| April 9th, 2005 (April 09 2005) | Event | His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles. | |
| April 9th, 2003 (April 09 2003) | Event | 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces. | |
| April 9th, 2002 (April 09 2002) | Event | The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey. | the Queen Mother Elizabeth Quotes |
| April 9th, 1999 (April 09 1999) | Event | Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, President of Niger, is assassinated. | |
| April 9th, 1992 (April 09 1992) | Event | A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison. | |
| April 9th, 1992 (April 09 1992) | Event | John Major s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom. | John Major Quotes |
| April 9th, 1991 (April 09 1991) | Event | Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. | |
| April 9th, 1975 (April 09 1975) | Event | The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world. | |
| April 9th, 1969 (April 09 1969) | Event | The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| April 9th, 1969 (April 09 1969) | Event | The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford. | |
| April 9th, 1967 (April 09 1967) | Event | The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight. | |
| April 9th, 1959 (April 09 1959) | Event | Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven". | |
| April 9th, 1957 (April 09 1957) | Event | The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping. | |
| April 9th, 1953 (April 09 1953) | Event | Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax. | |
| April 9th, 1952 (April 09 1952) | Event | Hugo Ballivian s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines | Hugo Ball Quotes |
| April 9th, 1948 (April 09 1948) | Event | Jorge Eliecer Gaitan s assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogota (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia (La violencia). | |
| April 9th, 1948 (April 09 1948) | Event | Massacre at Deir Yassin. | |
| April 9th, 1947 (April 09 1947) | Event | The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. | |
| April 9th, 1947 (April 09 1947) | Event | The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court s 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel. | |
| April 9th, 1945 (April 09 1945) | Event | World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk. | |
| April 9th, 1945 (April 09 1945) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Konigsberg, in East Prussia, ends. | |
| April 9th, 1945 (April 09 1945) | Event | The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed. | |
| April 9th, 1942 (April 09 1942) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death MarchUnited States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island s east coast. | |
| April 9th, 1940 (April 09 1940) | Event | World War II: Germany invades Denmark and Norway. | |
| April 9th, 1939 (April 09 1939) | Event | Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution s Constitution Hall. | |
| April 9th, 1937 (April 09 1937) | Event | The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in Londonit is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. | |
| April 9th, 1917 (April 09 1917) | Event | World War I: The Battle of Arrasthe battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge. | |
| April 9th, 1916 (April 09 1916) | Event | World War I: The Battle of VerdunGerman forces launch their third offensive of the battle. | |
| April 9th, 1909 (April 09 1909) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. | |
| April 9th, 1867 (April 09 1867) | Event | Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska. | |
| April 9th, 1865 (April 09 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| April 9th, 1682 (April 09 1682) | Event | Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana. | |
| April 9th, 1440 (April 09 1440) | Event | Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark. | |
| April 9th, 1413 (April 09 1413) | Event | Henry V is crowned King of England. | |
| April 9th, 1241 (April 09 1241) | Event | Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies. | |
| April 9th, 0475 (April 09 0475) | Event | Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. | |
| April 9th, 0193 (April 09 0193) | Event | Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans). | |
