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

June 9: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 9 is the 161^st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 27, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,631,520 minutes 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 ‘hectahexacontahenagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 234 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 4,188 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 9 Historical Events

• 721 –
  Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1873 –
  Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
• 1923 –
  Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1928 –
  Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• 1930 –
  Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1944 –
  World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
• 1953 –
  Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
• 1965 –
  Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
• 1967 –
  Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
• 2008 –
  In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

Who were born on June 9?

• 1900 –
  Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
• 1912 –
  Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
• 1951 –
  Reinhard Schmitz, German footballer
• 1961 –
  Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter and playwright
• 1964 –
  Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1964 –
  Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
• 1969 –
  Nick Kiriazis, American actor
• 1972 –
  Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
• 1977 –
  Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• 1981 –
  Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer and model

Who died on June 9?

• 439 –
  Spearthrower Owl, Maya ruler of Teotihuacan (Mexico)
• 597 –
  Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 1572 –
  Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1964 –
  Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1973 –
  Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
• 1979 –
  Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 –
  Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 –
  George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 2007 –
  Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (b. 1981)
• 2011 –
  M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)