Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 9
This is a list of selected October 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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The words Chosŏn'gŭl and Hangul written in Hangul
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Uganda (1962); | refimprove/unreferenced sections, needs expansion |
| 1237 – James I of Aragon entered Valencia and established the Kingdom of Valencia. | refimprove, date not cited |
| 1446 – Scholars in the court of Sejong the Great promulgated the new Korean alphabet, now known as Hangul. | needs copyediting |
| 1514 – Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France. | trivia, unreferenced section |
| 1635 – Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. | date not in article, refimprove section |
| 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut, later renamed Yale University, was chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, U.S. | refimprove section |
| 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Greek head of state and the founder of Greek independence, was assassinated in Nafplion. | unreferenced section |
| 1845 – Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – In Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players were later found to have lost intentionally. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – A landslide displaced large amounts of water from the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, causing waves and floods that quickly swept away several villages and killed almost 2,000 people. | lots of CN tags |
| 1970 – The Khmer Republic, headed by General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, was proclaimed in Cambodia. | refimprove various paragraphs |
| 1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survived an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma. | unreferenced section |
| 2006 – North Korea conducted a nuclear test, reportedly near Kilchu, with an explosive force of less than one kiloton, that was condemned and denounced by many countries and the United Nations Security Council. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1888 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
- 1913 – The ocean liner SS Volturno caught fire in the middle of a gale in the North Atlantic, burned, and sank, resulting in about 130 deaths.
- 1914 – World War I: Belgian troops in Antwerp surrendered, allowing the German army to capture the city.
- 2016 – Militants attacked a border police post in Myanmar, triggering a period of intense persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
- Born/died this day: Fanny Imlay (d. 1816) · Helene Deutsch (b. 1884)
Notes
- 1903 World Series appears on October 1, so Black Sox Scandal should not appear in the same year
October 9: Thanksgiving in Canada (2017); Hangul Day in South Korea (1446); Leif Erikson Day in the United States
- 1594 – Sinhalese–Portuguese War: Portugal had almost conquered the island of Sri Lanka when its army was completely annihilated, ending the Campaign of Danture.
- 1874 – The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail could be exchanged freely.
- 1942 – World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
- 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in London's West End.
- 2012 – Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was severely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
Camille Saint-Saëns (b. 1835) · Rockin' Robin (b. 1964) · Mona Best (d. 1988)