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

Found 67 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1888

  The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• 1900

  The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
• 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

  The 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.
• 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
• 1950

  Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre started.
• 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.
• 1966

  Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre
• 1966

  Vietnam War: Diên Niên – Phước Bình massacre
• 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.
• 1980

  Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
• 1980

  Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot.
• 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 receives 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.
• 1991

  Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention.
• 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.

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