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The following events took place on April 9. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 58 events. Showing 31 - 58.

• 1945

  The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
• 1947

  The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• 1947

  The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court’s 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
• 1948

  Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
• 1948

  Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
• 1952

  Hugo Ballivián’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
• 1957

  The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
• 1959

  Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
• 1960

  Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
• 1961

  The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• 1965

  Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
• 1967

  The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
• 1969

  The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• 1969

  The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
• 1975

  The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
• 1975

  Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
• 1980

  The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
• 1981

  The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
• 1989

  The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
• 1991

  Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union
• 1992

  A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
• 1999

  Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
• 2003

  Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
• 2005

  Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
• 2009

  In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
• 2013

  A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
• 2013

  At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
• 2014

  A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

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