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09 Apr 1241
Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
09 Apr 1388
Battle of Nfels Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
09 Apr 1440
Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark (-48)
09 Apr 1474
Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon and Italians
09 Apr 1483
Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England. He is never crowned and disappears presumed murdered after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the Princes in the Tower)
09 Apr 1538
Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
09 Apr 1609
Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
09 Apr 1621
Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
09 Apr 1667
1st public art exhibition at the Palais-Royale in Paris
09 Apr 1682
Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
09 Apr 1731
British mariner Robert Jenkins ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain
09 Apr 1783
Tippu Sahib drives out British from Bednore India
09 Apr 1808
Mayor Wolters offers French King Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
09 Apr 1814
Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance of the Netherlands
09 Apr 1816
African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Philadelphia)
09 Apr 1829
Danzig (Gdask) dike break flood kills 1200
09 Apr 1833
1st US tax-supported public library in Peterborough Noew Hampshire
09 Apr 1838
UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square London
09 Apr 1860
douard-Lon Scott de Martinville uses his phonautograph to make a 10-second recording of Au Clair de la Lune
09 Apr 1864
Union surgeon Mary Edwards Walker is captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy during US Civil War
09 Apr 1865
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant (US Civil War)
09 Apr 1869
Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
09 Apr 1880
British Open Golf Musselburgh Links Scotsman Bob Ferguson wins first of 3 straight titles beats Peter Paxton by 5 strokes
09 Apr 1894
1st performance of Anton Bruckners 5th Symphony in B in Graz
09 Apr 1896
Australian athlete Edwin Flack claims the middle distance double at the Athens Olympics winning the 800m final in 211.0 his 2nd victory of the Games after success in the 1500m
09 Apr 1896
Greek shooter Pantelis Karasevdas scores a perfect 40 hits to win the military rifle event at the Athens Olympics Greek 1-2-3 with Pavlos Pavlidis and Nicolaos Trikupis taking out the minor placings
09 Apr 1909
The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States
09 Apr 1912
1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
09 Apr 1913
Brooklyn Dodgers Ebbets Field opens Phillies win 1-0
09 Apr 1914
World the Flesh & the Devil 1st color film shown in London
09 Apr 1914
Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
09 Apr 1914
US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people
09 Apr 1917
Vimy Ridge in France stormed by Canadian troops
09 Apr 1923
Sean OCaseys Shadow of a Gunman premieres in Dublin
09 Apr 1923
In Adkins vs Childrens Hospital the US Supreme Court finds that the minimum wage law for women and children adopted by the District of Columbia is unconstitutional
09 Apr 1928
Eugene ONeills Lazarus Laughed premieres in Pasadena
09 Apr 1931
Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Montreal Canadiens at 1350 of 6th period
09 Apr 1932
Stanley Cup Final Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto ON Toronto Maple Leafs beat New York Rangers 6-4 for 3-0 series sweep Torontos first SC as the Maple Leafs
09 Apr 1935
Stanley Cup Final Montreal Forum Montreal Quebec Montreal Maroons beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 for 3-0 series sweep Maroons last defunct team to win the Cup
09 Apr 1940
German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord 1000 die
09 Apr 1940
Nazi Germany invades Denmark and Norway and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle
09 Apr 1942
Battle of Bataan US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
09 Apr 1944
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
09 Apr 1945
Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
09 Apr 1954
7th Cannes Film Festival Gate of Hell directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
09 Apr 1959
Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)
09 Apr 1945
Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes kills 360
09 Apr 1945
World War II The Battle of Knigsberg East Prussia ends.
09 Apr 1946
Stanley Cup Final Montreal Forum Montreal Quebec Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 6-3 for a 4-1 series victory
09 Apr 1947
Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169 injuring 1300
09 Apr 1949
UN International Court of Justice holds Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages
09 Apr 1950
14th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jimmy Demaret becomes the first 3-time Masters champion by 2 strokes ahead of Australian Jim Ferrier
09 Apr 1950
4th Tony Awards Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
09 Apr 1952
Hugo Ballivians government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution starting a period of agrarian reform universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
09 Apr 1954
WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington NC (NBCCBS) begins broadcasting
09 Apr 1959
NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
09 Apr 1959
13th NBA Championship Boston Celtics sweep Minnesota Lakers in 4 games first of Boston Celtics record 8 straight titles
09 Apr 1960
14th NBA Championship Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks 4 games to 3
09 Apr 1960
South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd survives an assassination attempt by David Pratt despite being twice shot in the face
09 Apr 1962
JFK throws out 1st ball at Washingtons new DC Stadium
09 Apr 1967
At the Drop of Another Hat closes at Booth NYC after 105 performances
09 Apr 1967
31st US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Gay Brewer wins his only major title by 1 stroke over runner-up Bobby Nichols
09 Apr 1967
Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwides transmitter burns down
09 Apr 1967
1st Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight
09 Apr 1968
Minns Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
09 Apr 1968
Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
09 Apr 1969
Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
09 Apr 1972
Sugar opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
09 Apr 1972
36th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire to win the 4th of his 6 Masters titles 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton Tom Weiskopf and Bobby Mitchell
09 Apr 1972
Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI
09 Apr 1973
37th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Due to weather delays final round is played on Monday with Tommy Aaron winning his only major title 1 stroke ahead of J. C. Snead
09 Apr 1973
Otto Kerner former governor of Illinois convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
09 Apr 1975
24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a 25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices
09 Apr 1976
US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
09 Apr 1977
Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
09 Apr 1978
42nd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC 42 year old Gary Player shoots a record-tying final round 64 (8) to win by 1 stroke from Rod Funseth Tom Watson and Hubert Green
09 Apr 1978
Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3 16-3 & 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
09 Apr 1980
Los Angeles Kings tie NHL record with two shorthanded playoff goals (vs NY Islanders)
09 Apr 1981
LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuelas 1st start beats Astros 2-0
09 Apr 1981
US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
09 Apr 1982
LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
09 Apr 1983
6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
09 Apr 1983
137th Grand National Ben de Haan wins aboard 131 bet Corbiere Jenny Pittman first female GN winning trainer
09 Apr 1985
White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
09 Apr 1986
Dallas announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
09 Apr 1988
Les Miserables opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre Osaka
09 Apr 1988
Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
09 Apr 1988
142nd Grand National Irish jockey Brendan Powell wins aboard 101 shot Rhyme n Reason by 4 lengths from Durham Edition
09 Apr 1989
53rd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Englishman Nick Faldo wins the first of his 3 Masters titles after a final round 65 (7) and a birdie on the 2nd hole of a sudden-death playoff with Scott Hoch
09 Apr 1989
Washington D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
09 Apr 1990
Capital News starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
09 Apr 1990
Don Mattingly signs a 19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
09 Apr 1990
NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
09 Apr 1990
Worlds largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
09 Apr 1992
Redwood Curtain opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
09 Apr 1992
Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden Boston & Coleman
09 Apr 1992
Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
09 Apr 1992
William O Studeman becomes deputy director of CIA
09 Apr 1993
Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory 11-4 over Mont Expos
09 Apr 1994
147th Grand National Jockey Richard Dunwoody wins his second GN aboard Irish 161 shot Miinnehoma by 1 lengths from Just So
09 Apr 1995
Translations closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
09 Apr 1995
59th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Ben Crenshaw wins his 2nd Masters title 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Davis Love III
09 Apr 1997
Cleveland Indians pitcher Jose Mesa is acquitted of rape
09 Apr 1997
Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion
09 Apr 1997
NFL announces it will give 3M to CFL & possible World Classic Bowl
09 Apr 1999
Ibrahim Bar Manassara President of Niger is assassinated.
09 Apr 2000
64th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Fijian Vijay Singh wins by 3 strokes from Ernie Els of South Africa
09 Apr 2000
53rd British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) American Beauty Best Film Pedro Almodovar Best Director
09 Apr 2005
158th Grand National 9-year-old 71 favourite Hedgehunter ridden by Ruby Walsh and trained by Willie Mullins win by 14 lengths from 401 shot Royal Auclair
09 Apr 2006
70th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Phil Mickelson wins his 2nd green jacket by 2 shots from South African Tim Clark
09 Apr 2009
Mockumentary Parks and Recreation starring Amy Poehler Nick Offerman and Aziz Ansari debuts on NBC in the US
09 Apr 2011
Gunman murders five people injures eleven and commits suicide in a mall in the Netherlands
09 Apr 2011
164th Grand National Jason Maguire wins aboard Irish 141 shot Ballabriggs first GN win for trainer Donald McCain Jr. son of 4-time winning trainer Ginger McCain
09 Apr 2012
The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
09 Apr 2013
12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei Sudan
09 Apr 2013
37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
09 Apr 2013
13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivana Serbia
09 Apr 2013
The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
09 Apr 2013
32nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Louisville 93-60
09 Apr 2014
Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage
09 Apr 2016
169th Grand National David Mullins victorious aboard 331 Rule The World wins by 6 lengths from race favourite The Last Samuri
09 Apr 2017
Two Egyptian coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria attacked by suicide bombers leaving at least 44 dead
09 Apr 2017
Suicide car bombing in Mogadishu Somalia kills at least 17 Al-Shabaab group claim responsibility
09 Apr 2017
81st US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Spaniard Sergio Garca beats Justin Rose of England in a sudden-death playoff after they completed 72 holes at -9 Garcias 1st major title in his 74th attempt
09 Apr 2017
Twitter footage of passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight in Chicago after flight overbooked causes outrage
09 Apr 2018
US Senator Tammy Duckworth becomes the first senator to give birth while in office
09 Apr 2018
Fleetwood Mac announce new members Neil Finn and Mike Campbell after firing long-standing member Lindsey Buckingham
09 Apr 1864
Battle of Pleasant Hill Louisiana Confederate assault repulsed by Union side with high cost of estimated 3100 causalities
09 Apr 1880
British Open Mens Golf Musselburgh Links Scotsman Bob Ferguson wins first of 3 straight titles beats Peter Paxton by 5 strokes
09 Apr 1941
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Dorothy Kirby wins comfortably by 16 strokes ahead of Helen Sigel
09 Apr 1999
Ibrahim Bar Manassara President of Niger is assassinated at the airport in Niamey Niger
09 Apr 2013
32nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Louisville 93-60 Huskies 8th National title
09 Apr 2019
Wolves have returned to the Netherlands after 140 years claim ecologists
09 Apr 2019
Nine prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters found guilty on public nuisance charges for their part in 2014 Umbrella Movement
09 Apr 1784
Great Britain ratifies the Treaty of Paris signed September 3 1783 ending the Revolutionary War
09 Apr 1833
1st US tax-supported public library in Peterborough New Hampshire
09 Apr 1972
Sugar a musical adaptation of 1959 film Some Like It Hot opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
09 Apr 2018
US Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois becomes the first senator to give birth while in office
09 Apr 1784
Great Britain ratifies the Treaty of Paris signed September 3 1783 ending the American Revolutionary War
09 Apr 1913
Brooklyn Superbas (later Dodgers) Ebbets Field opens visiting Philadelphia Phillies win 1-0
09 Apr 1942
Alexander Gretchaninovs 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC with John Barbirolli conducting the New York Philharmonic
09 Apr 1972
New Zealand cricket opening batsmen Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis (187) make 387 partnership in 4th Test v WI in Georgetown Guyana
09 Apr 1983
6th NASA Space Shuttle Mission Challenger 1 returns to Earth
09 Apr 2021
Uganda opposition party National Unity Platform Party headed by Bobi Wine claims 623 people have been abducted and tortured by the government of President Yoweri Museveni [1]
09 Apr 2021
La Soufrire volcano begins erupting on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent with a plume of ash 20000 feet into the sky
09 Apr 2021
San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove no-hits the Texas Rangers 3-0 at Globe Life Field Arlington TX
09 Apr 1241
Battle of Liegnitz - Mongolian armies inflict one of the largest defeats in Polish history on Polish and Germans force led by Henry of Silesia with 20-25000 killed or massacred including Henry
09 Apr 1949
Revival of Sidney Howards Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 stage drama They Knew What They Wanted closes at the Music Box Theatre NYC after 61 performances
09 Apr 1950
4th Tony Awards The Cocktail Party (play) & South Pacific (musical) win
09 Apr 1962
26th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Arnold Palmer wins the 3rd of his 4 Masters titles in an 18 hole Monday playoff with Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald tournaments first 3-way playoff
09 Apr 1988
NHL New Jersey Devils win 3-0 over New York Islanders Devils lead 2-1 in playoff 1st round
09 Apr 2000
53rd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) American Beauty Best Film Pedro Almodovar Best Director
09 Apr 1595
Spanish Mendana and Queirs Expedition departs Callao Peru led by Alvaro de Mendan accompanied by 378 men women and children in four ships to colonise the Solomon Islands (find Marquesas instead) [1]
09 Apr 1682
French explorer Ren-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France [1]
09 Apr 1932
Hans Luther is shot at and injured at the shoulder at the Potsdam station.
09 Apr 1965
Beatles Ticket to Ride single is released in UK
09 Apr 1984
Canada Health Act the countrys public funded heath insurance scheme (Medicare) passed by the Canadian House of Commons [1]
09 Apr 1990
Worlds largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall New York City record eclipsed in 2007
09 Apr 2012
The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
09 Apr 2014
Joel Embiid declares for the NBA draft forgoing his final three years of college eligibility
09 Apr 2022
Joel Embiid is named the NBA scoring champion averaging 30.6 points per game
09 Apr 2023
Joel Embiid is named the NBA scoring champion for the second straight season averaging 33.1 points per game
09 Apr 2023
Kuwaiti media outlet Kuwaiti News unveils virtual news presenter on Twitter speaking Arabic using artificial intelligence (although China was the 1st in 2018) [1]
09 Apr 1609
Spain and the Netherlands sign a twelve year Resistant Pact
09 Apr 1731
British mariner Robert Jenkins ear is cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean catalyst for a later war between Britain and Spain
09 Apr 1910
First recorded sighting in of Halleys Comet seen in Gore New Zealand
09 Apr 1981
US Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru sinking the civilian ship in the South China Sea
09 Apr 2024
A group of older Swiss women win a landmark climate change case at the European Court of Human Rights ruling the womens rights had been violated by not fully addressing climate change [1]
09 Apr 2024
Arizona Supreme Court upholds a 1864 law banning all abortions except to save a womans life [1]
09 Apr 2024
James and Jennifer Crumbley the first parents held criminally responsible for a US mass school shooting committed by their child are sentenced to 10-15 years for manslaughter in Michigan [1]
09 Apr 2024
Simon Harris becomes Irelands youngest taoiseach at 37 after the resignation of Leo Varadkar [1]
09 Apr 1388
Battle of Nfels Swiss canton of Glarus and its allied Old Swiss Confederation defeat the Habsburg forces of the Duchy of Austria
09 Apr 1621
End of the Twelve Years Truce between Spain and the Netherlands
09 Apr 1667
First public art exhibition at the Palais-Royal in Paris
09 Apr 1691
French troops occupy Mons in the Spanish Netherlands after a siege during the Nine Years War
09 Apr 1833
First US tax-supported public library opens in Peterborough New Hampshire
09 Apr 1869
Hudsons Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
09 Apr 1914
World the Flesh & the Devil the first color film is shown in London
09 Apr 1947
Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169 and injure 1300
09 Apr 1959
13th NBA Championship Boston Celtics sweep Minneapolis Lakers in 4 games first of Boston Celtics record 8 straight titles
09 Apr 1967
First Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight
09 Apr 1969
MLB Chicago Cubs Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles in 11-3 win over the Philadelphia at Wrigley Field in Chicago
09 Apr 1975
First appearance of sports mascot the San Diego Chicken
09 Apr 2016
HBO premieres Liz Garbus documentary Nothing Left Unsaid Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper a two-hour film of conversations between the mother and her youngest son