9 October

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The 9t o October is the 282t day o the year (283t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 83 days bidin.

Events

2007: The John Lennon "Imagine Peace" Touer in Iceland

1000 - Leif Ericsson lands on the East coast o North Americae.
1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1740 - Dutch colonists an ithers begin massacrin Cheenese fowk in Batavia, eventually killin at least 10,000 fowk an leadin tae war.
1804 - The ceety o Hobart, Tasmanie, is foondit.
1806 - Proushie declares war on Fraunce.
1834 - The Dublin tae Kingstown Railwey is opened - the first public railway in Ireland.
1841 - Sooth Americae's first steamship, the Guayas, goes intae service on the continent's wast coast.
1900 - The Cook Islands becomes a Unitit Kinrick territory.
1934 - Assassination o Alexander I o Yugoslavie an French prime meenister Louis Barthou.
1940 - Warld War II: St Paul's Cathedral in Lunnon is bombed.
1959 - Harold Macmillan's Conservatives win the Unitit Kinrick General Election.
1962 - Uganda gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
1963 - In Northeastren Italy, ower 2,000 fowk are kilt, as a landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave o watter tae overtop it.
1967 - Che Guevara is executit in Bolivie.
1989 - Olav V o Norawa opens the Sameting, the first Sami pairlament, in Karasjok, Northren Norawa.
1989 - 70,000 protestors in Leipzig, then-East Germany, demand the legalisation o opposeetion groups an democratic reforms.
2004 - The Scots Pairlament Biggin is offeecially opened.
2005 - 16- an 17-year-aulds are allowed tae vote in the state election in Burgenland, Austrick.
2006 - North Korea carries oot a bomb test.
2007 - Yoko Ono opens the John Lennon "Imagine Peace" Touer on the isle o Videy naur Reykjavik, Iceland.
2009 - Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2012 - Members o the Pakistan Taliban attempt tae assassinate Malala Yousafzai.
2014 - The UK Unthirldom Pairty gains its first seat in the Hoose o Commons, wi defectit Conservative Douglas Carswell.
2017 - Iceland becomes the least-populatit kintra ever tae qualify for a FIFA Warld Cup - the 2018 edeetion in Roushie - efter beatin Kosovo 2-0.

Births

1757 - Charles X o Fraunce (d. 1836)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (d. 1919)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French militar afficer, kent for the Dreyfus affair (d. 1935)
1879 - Max von Laue, German pheesicist (d. 1960)
1892 - Ivo Andrić, Croatian writer (d. 1975)
1900 - Alastair Sim, Scots actor (d. 1976)
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1st Preses o Senegal (d. 2001)
1916 - John Panton, Scots gowfer (d. 2009)
1922 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish componer (d. 2016)
1936 - Brian Blessed, Inglis actor
1938 - Heinz Fischer, umwhile Preses o Austrick
1940 - John Lennon, Inglis sangster an muisicker (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1944 - John Entwistle, Inglis muisicker (The Who) (d. 2002)
1947 - France Gall, French sangster (d. 2018)
1950 - Jody Williams, American aid wirker an peace activist
1959 - Boris Nemtsov, Roushie politeecian (d. 2015)
1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American actor an director
1966 - David Cameron, umwhile Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
1969 - Steve McQueen, Inglis airtist an film director
1969 - PJ Harvey, Inglis muisicker, sangster an sangwriter
1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swadish gowfer
1975 - Sean Lennon, American muisicker
1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrick racin driver

Daiths

1529 - Colin Campbell, 3rd Yerl o Argyll, Scots nobleman an sodger (b. 1486)
1781 - Thomas Erskine, 6t Yerl o Kellie, Scots muisicker an componer (b. 1732)
1841 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Proushie airchitect an penter (b. 1781)
1934 - Alexander I o Yugoslavie (b. 1888)
1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime meenister o Fraunce (b. 1862)
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch pheesicist (b. 1865)
1958 - Pape Pius XII (b. 1876)
1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary (b. 1928)
1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian sangster (b. 1929)
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1903)
2002 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
2015 - Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (b. 1930)
2015 - Geoffrey Howe, Breetish politeecian (b. 1926)
2016 - Andrzej Wajda, Pols film director (b. 1926)

Halidays

Independence Day (Uganda)
Leif Ericsson Day
Hangul Day (Sooth Korea)