[[pl:9 pa%BCdziernika]] October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining.
Events:
- 1000 - Leif Ericsson discovers Vinland
- 1446 - Hangul alphabet created in Korea
- 1635 - Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident.
- 1701 - Yale University chartered in New Haven, Connecticut
- 1776 - Mission San Francisco de Asis founded in San Francisco, California
- 1820 - Guayaquil secedes from Ecuador
- 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire burns out
- 1888 - The Washington Monument opens to the public
- 1914 - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops
- 1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral bombed by German airplanes
- 1942 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy
- 1957 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States
- 1961 - Tanganyika proclaims its independence
- 1963 - Uganda becomes a republic
- 1970 - Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia
Births:
- 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
- 1757 - Charles X of France
- 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
- 1835 - Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (+ 1921)
- 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (+ 1935)
- 1873 - Charles Walgreen, entrepreneur (+ 1939)
- 1886 - Rube Marquard, baseball star (+ 1980)
- 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
- 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (+ 1944)
- 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
- 1900 - Alastair Sim, actor (+ 1976)
- 1909 - Jacques Tati, actor (+ 1982)
- 1909 - Frederick Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (+ 2000)
- 1923 - Fyvush Finkel, actor
- 1937 - Brian Blessed, actor
- 1940 - John Lennon, British musician, songwriter (+ 1980)
- 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
- 1944 - John Entwistle, British bassist of The Who (+ 2002)
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (+ 1987)
- 1948 - Jackson Browne, musician
- 1953 - Tony Shalhoub, actor
- 1954 - Scott Bakula, American television actor
- 1962 - Tommy Lee, American drummer
- 1969 - P.J. Harvey, musician
- 1970 - Savannah, pornographic movie actress (+ 1994)
- 1975 - Sean Lennon, musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Deaths:
- 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
- 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary
- 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer
- 1934 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia
- 1941 - Helen Morgan, singer, actress
- 1958 - Pope Pius XII
- 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader - executed.
- 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, actress
- 1974 - Oskar Schindler, businessman
- 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian musician
- 1987 - Clare Booth Luce, diplomat
- 1991 - Thalmus Rasulala, actor
- 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1996 - Walter Kerr, movie critic
- 2000 - David Dukes, actor
- 2001 - Dagmar, television personality
Holidays:
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
October 8 - October 10 - September 9 - November 9 - more historical anniversaries