What are the important events that happened on October 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 26, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 488,880 hours 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 ‘dihectaoctacontadigon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 131 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 4,675 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 9 Historical Events
- 1238 –James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
- 1701 –The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
- 1776 –Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1799 –Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
- 1820 –Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- 1824 –Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- 1845 –The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Tom’s Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom’s Brook, Virginia.
- 1911 –An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
- 1963 –In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
Who were born on October 9?
- 1837 –Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist (d. 1902)
- 1903 –Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
- 1926 –Danièle Delorme, French actress
- 1943 –Mike Peters, American cartoonist
- 1944 –John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
- 1950 –Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist
- 1954 –Scott Bakula, American actor
- 1958 –Mike Singletary, American football player
- 1969 –Giles Martin, British record producer
- 1970 –Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
Who died on October 9?
- 1581 –Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
- 1597 –Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
- 1691 –William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
- 1937 –Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
- 1978 –Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
- 1985 –Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
- 1987 –Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
- 1989 –Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
- 2002 –Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
- 2005 –Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
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