On This Day June 9th

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June 9th is the one-hundred-sixtieth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 205 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.

1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.

1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.

1915—William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.

 

Birthdays

1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)

1781 – George Stephenson, the English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (d. 1848)

1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)

1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)

1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)

1934 – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)

1941 – Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2012)

1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian American actor, producer, and author

1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli American actress.

 

Holiday Highlight

NATIONAL KIDS DAY

National Kids Day, celebrated in the U.S. since the 1800s, has had variations in its date. It was first established by Reverend Dr. Charles Leonard in 1857 on the second Sunday of June and later changed to October 8 by President Bill Clinton. Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois later proclaimed the second Sunday of June as the celebration date. Many other nations celebrate children's rights on November 20, the day the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Child's Rights in 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. World Children's Day has marked the anniversary of these adoptions since 1990.

 

Holidays And Observance

 Abused Women's and Children's Awareness Day

Children's Sunday

Coral Triangle Day

Donald Duck Day

Multicultural American Child Awareness Day

National Children's Day

National Earl Day

National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day

Race Unity Day

World APS Day

Write to Your Father Day

Writers' Rights Day

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