What are the important events that happened on April 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 9: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 9 is the 99^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 27, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,744,156,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontaenneagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 314 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,492 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 9 Historical Events

• 1860 –
  On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
• 1914 –
  Mexican Revolution: One of the world’s first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
• 1916 –
  World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
• 1939 –
  Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
• 1942 –
  World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March – United 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.
• 1945 –
  The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
• 1947 –
  The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• 1969 –
  The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1981 –
  The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
• 1989 –
  The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Who were born on April 9?

• 1895 –
  Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)
• 1938 –
  Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
• 1965 –
  Jeff Zucker, American television executive
• 1973 –
  Spenny Rice, Canadian entertainer
• 1978 –
  Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
• 1978 –
  Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
• 1979 –
  Keith Nobbs, American actor
• 1986 –
  Leighton Meester, American singer and actress
• 1988 –
  Uee, South Korean actress and singer (After School)
• 1989 –
  Danielle Kahle, American figure skater

Who died on April 9?

• 491 –
  Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
• 715 –
  Pope Constantine
• 1024 –
  Pope Benedict VIII
• 1747 –
  Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
• 1804 –
  Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
• 1945 –
  Hans Oster, German resistance figure (b. 1887)
• 1982 –
  Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
• 1999 –
  Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
• 2002 –
  Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
• 2006 –
  Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)