This day in #History

This day in #History
October 9th



680 - Husain ibn ' Ali, Shi 'i religious leader, enters martyrdom

768 - Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks.

869 - Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen

1000 - Leif Ericson discovers " Vinland " ( possibly New England)

1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L 'Anse aux Meadows, Canada , becoming the first European to reach America.

1192 - Richard I of England, the Lion Heart , leaves Jerusalem in disguise

1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and
founds the Kingdom of Valencia .

1290 - Last of 16, 000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves

1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea .
1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.

1573 - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar

1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.

1597 - Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort

1621 - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin

1740 - Neth gov -general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia

1760 - 7 Year 's War : Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS= Sep 28 ].

1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinksnear the coast of Finland .

1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay

1794 - French troops occupy Hertogenbosch


1804 - Hobart Tasmania founded

1806 - Prussia declares war on France.

1817 - University of Gent officially opens

1818 - Congress of Aken returns to France from
Libya

1820 - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador

1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.

1831 - Ioannis Kapodistrias , Ist Head of State of
modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion.

1835 - The Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.

1870 - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal
decree

1874 - World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland

1899 - 1 st British troops reaches Durban , South
Africa

1899 - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum

1930 - 1 st transcontinental flight by a woman
completed, Laura Ingalls

1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.

1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises
Australian autonomy.

1953 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
aproves Guyanese Constitution

1953 - Conrad Adenauer elected West German
chancellor

1961 - Tanganyika(Tanzania) becomes independent within
British Commonwealth

1962 - Uganda becomes independent from the
United Kingdom

1970 - Khmer Republic ( Cambodia) declares
independence

1975 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1980 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz

1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.

1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space


2012 - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics


BIRTHDAYS


1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer , Euskirchen, Rhine Province, chemist , Nobel Prize laureate, (d . 1919)

1892 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel Prize for Literature 1961)


1899 - Bruce Catton , US , historian /writer ( Civil War )

1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician ( d . 2001 )

1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid
worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1966 - David Cameron , British politician, PM



DEATHS


1831 - Ioannis Kapodistrias , President (1829 - 31) and founding father of modern Greece .

1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and
antiquarian (b . 1785 )

1934 - King Alexander , of Yugoslavia, killed by
Georgief (Croatian terrorist )

1943 - Pieter Zeeman , naturalist (Nobel 1902) , dies

1943 - Pieter Zeeman , naturalist (Nobel 1902) , dies

1967 - Ernesto "Che " Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at 39

1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici , president of Brazil
(b . 1905 )

1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975 -76) , dies at 84

1995 - Lord Home of Hirsel , cricket ( Middlesex player later British PM) , dies

1995 - Alec Douglas-Home , PM of Britain (1963 -64) ,dies