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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
• 1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 1264– The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
• 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• 1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
• 1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
• 1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
• 1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
• 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
• 1760 – Seven Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
• 1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
• 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.
• 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
• 1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
• 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
• 1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
• 1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
• 1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
• 1835 – The Royal College, Colombo in Sri Lanka is established with the name Hillstreet Academy.
• 1837 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
• 1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
• 1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
• 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• 1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
• 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
• 1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• 1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
• 1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
• 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
• 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
• 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• 1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
• 1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
• 1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
• 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
• 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.
• 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
• 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
• 1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
• 1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
• 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
• 1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
• 1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
• 1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
• 1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
• 1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
• 2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
• 2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
• 2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

Births

• 1201 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
• 1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler (d. c. 1290)
• 1261 – King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
• 1328 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
• 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
• 1585 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
• 1586 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
• 1704 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
• 1757 – King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• 1796 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
• 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
• 1840 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
• 1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
• 1871 – George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
• 1871 – Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar. (d. 1922)
• 1873 – Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
• 1873 – Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
• 1873 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
• 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1886 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1888 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
• 1890 – Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
• 1892 – Ivo Andrić, Serbian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
• 1893 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
• 1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
• 1900 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
• 1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
• 1909 – Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
• 1919 – Jason Wingreen, American actor
• 1920 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
• 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor
• 1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
• 1926 – Danièle Delorme, French actress
• 1928 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
• 1931 – Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
• 1933 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1933 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
• 1934 – Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
• 1935 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family
• 1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor
• 1938 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
• 1940 – John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
• 1940 – Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
• 1941 – Trent Lott, American politician
• 1941 – Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
• 1941 – Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
• 1941 – Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist
• 1943 – Douglas Kirby, Research scientist
• 1944 – John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
• 1945 – Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
• 1946 – Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1947 – France Gall, French singer
• 1947 – William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
• 1948 – Jackson Browne, American musician
• 1950 – Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1950 – Brian Downing, former baseball player
• 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist
• 1952 – Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
• 1953 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
• 1954 – Scott Bakula, American actor
• 1954 – James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
• 1954 – Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
• 1954 – John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
• 1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer
• 1957 – Don Garber, American sports commissioner
• 1958 – Michael Pare, American actor
• 1958 – Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
• 1958 – Mike Singletary, former American football player
• 1960 – Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
• 1960 – Maddie Blaustein, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1961 – Julian Bailey, British racing driver
• 1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
• 1964 – Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
• 1964 – John Ralston, Canadian actor
• 1965 – Jimbo Fisher, Offensive Coordinator for Florida State
• 1966 – Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
• 1966 – David Cameron, British politician
• 1967 – Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian professional tennis player
• 1967 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1969 – P.J. Harvey, English musician
• 1969 – Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater
• 1970 – Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
• 1970 – Steve Jablonsky, American music composer
• 1970 – Jason Butler Harner, American actor
• 1970 – Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
• 1970 – Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
• 1970 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1971 – Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
• 1971 – Jason Jones, American filmmaker and humanitarian
• 1971 – Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
• 1972 – Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
• 1973 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)
• 1973 – Steve Burns, American actor and musician
• 1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress
• 1973 – Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
• 1973 – Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
• 1974 – Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
• 1975 – Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-Beatle John Lennon
• 1975 – Rale Micic, Serbian musician
• 1975 – Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
• 1976 – Nick Swardson, American actor
• 1977 – Brian Roberts, American baseball player
• 1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
• 1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player
• 1978 – Rossa, Indonesian singer
• 1979 – Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Brandon Routh, American actor
• 1979 – Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
• 1979 – Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
• 1980 – Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
• 1980 – Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 – Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
• 1981 – Darius Miles, American basketball player
• 1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
• 1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
• 1983 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
• 1983 – Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
• 1983 – Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
• 1983 – Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 1984 – Ghetto, British musician
• 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
• 1987 – Bill Walker, American basketball player
• 1992 – Tyler James Williams, American actor
• 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
• 1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
• 1273 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
• 1390 – King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
• 1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
• 1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
• 1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
• 1581 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
• 1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
• 1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
• 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
• 1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
• 1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
• 1797 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
• 1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
• 1808 – John Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777)
• 1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
• 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
• 1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
• 1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
• 1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
• 1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
• 1937 – Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
• 1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1950 – George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
• 1953 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
• 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
• 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 – André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
• 1968 – Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
• 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
• 1987 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
• 1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
• 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Stella Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
• 2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)

Holidays and observances

• RC Saints – Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
• South Korea – Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
• Uganda – Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
• Leif Erikson Day – in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
• Ecuador – Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
• Romania – Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
• French Republican Calendar – Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ~ Groucho Marx

• selected by Kalki

2005

I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner

• proposed by Kalki

2006

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.
~ John Lennon ~ (born 9 October 1940)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps.
Reader, if you have not grasped — read again,
after a while.
The predestined is not accidental,
The leaves fall in their time.
And winter is but the harbinger of spring.
All is revealed; all is attainable.
~ Nicholas Roerich ~ (born 9 October 1874)

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me.
~ John Lennon ~

• proposed by Lyle

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

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3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

We're more popular than Jesus now. ~ John Lennon (date of birth)

• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 23:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• 2 ~ Kalki 21:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC) A famous quote, but one that Lennon himself stated was readily taken the wrong way by many people.
• 2 InvisibleSun 16:57, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons. ~ Nikolai Bukharin

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

History moves in contradictions. The skeleton of historic existence, the economic structure of society, also develops in contradictions. Forms eternally follow forms. Everything has only a passing being. The dynamic force of life creates the new over and over again — such is the law inherent in reality. ~ Nikolai Bukharin

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. ~ Ivo Andric

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ~ Ivo Andric

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness. ~ Ivo Andric

• 3 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

When I am not desperate, I am worthless. ~ Ivo Andric

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ~ Ivo Andric

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty. ~ Nicholas Roerich

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

One must manifest discipline of spirit; without it one cannot become free. To the slave discipline of spirit will be a prison; to the liberated one it will be a wondrous healing garden. So long as the discipline of spirit is as fetters the doors are closed, for in fetters one cannot ascend the steps. One may understand the discipline of spirit as wings. ~ Nicholas Roerich

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

We are dissipating superstition, ignorance and fear. We are forging courage, will and knowledge. Every striving toward enlightenment is welcome. Every prejudice, caused by ignorance, is exposed. ~ Nicholas Roerich

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:41, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. ~ Nicholas Roerich

• 2 Zarbon 14:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Lyle 17:02, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad. ~ Ivo Andric

• 3 Kalki 20:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.

All you need is love.
~ John Lennon ~

• 4 Kalki 20:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
• 1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• 1514 - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
• 1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
• 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
• 1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
• 1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
• 1760 - 7 Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
• 1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
• 1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco.
• 1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
• 1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
• 1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
• 1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
• 1820 - Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
• 1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
• 1831 - Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
• 1835 - Royal College established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
• 1837 - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
• 1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1854 - Beginning of the siege of Sebastopol.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island - Union troops repel Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook.
• 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
• 1874 - General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
• 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• 1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• 1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
• 1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
• 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
• 1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• 1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
• 1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
• 1945 - Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
• 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
• 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.
• 1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 1969 - In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
• 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
• 1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
• 1983 - Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
• 1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
• 1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
• 1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
• 1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
• 1995 - An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
• 2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
• 2004 - Democratic elections held for the first time in Afghanistan.
• 2005 - Smoking is completely banned on the UK rail network.
• 2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

Births

• 1201 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
• 1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
• 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
• 1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
• 1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
• 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
• 1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
• 1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
• 1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• 1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
• 1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
• 1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
• 1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
• 1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
• 1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
• 1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
• 1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
• 1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
• 1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
• 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
• 1892 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
• 1893 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
• 1900 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
• 1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1903 - Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
• 1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
• 1907 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
• 1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
• 1909 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
• 1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz musician (d. 1982)
• 1918 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
• 1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
• 1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
• 1922 - Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
• 1923 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor
• 1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
• 1926 - Danièle Delorme, French actress
• 1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
• 1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
• 1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
• 1934 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
• 1935 - Prince Edward, member of the British Royal Family
• 1936 - Brian Blessed, English actor
• 1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
• 1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
• 1940 - Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
• 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
• 1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span
• 1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
• 1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
• 1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)
• 1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
• 1946 - Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1947 - France Gall, French singer
• 1947 - William E. McAnulty, American lawyer (d. 2007)
• 1947 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
• 1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician
• 1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1950 - Brian Downing, former baseball player
• 1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
• 1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor
• 1954 - Scott Bakula, American actor
• 1954 - James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
• 1954 - Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
• 1954 - John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
• 1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner
• 1958 - Michael Pare, American actor
• 1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
• 1960 - Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
• 1961 - Julian Bailey, British racing driver
• 1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
• 1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
• 1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
• 1966 - Christopher Östlund, Swedish Publisher and entrepreneur
• 1966 - David Cameron, British politician
• 1967 - Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
• 1970 - Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
• 1970 - Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
• 1970 - Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
• 1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
• 1971 - Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
• 1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
• 1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
• 1973 - Steven Burns, American actor and musician
• 1973 - Erin Daniels, American actress
• 1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
• 1973 - Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
• 1975 - Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-beatle John Lennon
• 1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
• 1976 - Nick Swardson American Actor
• 1977 - Brian Roberts, American baseball player
• 1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
• 1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player
• 1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 - Brandon Routh, American actor
• 1979 - Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
• 1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
• 1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
• 1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player
• 1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
• 1982 - Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
• 1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
• 1983 - Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
• 1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
• 1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
• 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
• 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria
• 1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
• 1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
• 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
• 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
• 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
• 1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
• 1709 - Barbara Palmer, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
• 1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
• 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
• 1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
• 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
• 1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
• 1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
• 1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
• 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
• 1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
• 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
• 1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
• 1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
• 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
• 1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1958 - Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
• 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
• 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
• 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
• 1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
• 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
• 1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
• 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
• 1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
• 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
• 1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
• 1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903))
• 1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
• 1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
• 1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
• 2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
• 2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
• 2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
• 2006 - Paul Hunter, professional snooker player (b. 1978)
• 2006 - Raymond Noorda, co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances

• RC Saints - Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
• South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of Hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
• Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
• Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
• Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
• Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
• French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada