Historical Events on June 9

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• 641 Arabic-Islamic army conquers Romans at Alexandria, taking control of Egypt
• 721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats a Umayyad Muslim army at the Battle of Toulouse

• 1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy
• 1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
• 1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
• 1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons

• 1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts
• 1650 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. First legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1715 King Philip V, unifies the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon into a single state - the Kingdom of Spain.
• 1720 Sweden and Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
• 1727 Wreck of Dutch ship Zeewijk on the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with the loss of 72 lives, 82 survivors eventually build a boat and sail to Batavia (Jakarta) [1]
• 1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to British military officer and philanthropist soldier James Oglethorpe
• 1752 French army surrenders to the British in Trichinopoly, India
• 1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island
• 1772 1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion
• 1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
• 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver Island
• 1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"

• 1815 End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set
• 1822 Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth
• 1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
• 1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts
• 1860 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens

• 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
• 1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California

• 1873 Alexandra Palace in London burns down, after being open for only 16 days
• 1890 Comic opera "Robin Hood" by Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith, and Clement Scott premieres in Chicago

• 1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years
• 1898 Second Convention of Peking leases the "New Territories" of Hong Kong to United Kingdom for 99 years rent-free, expiring on 30 June 1997

• 1900 In China, Boxers destroy the race course in Peking, a few miles from the legations and the center and symbol of diplomatic social life and Western privilege
• 1901 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cincinnati Reds 25-13
• 1902 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
• 1906 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3

• 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days
• 1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)

• 1919 General steel strike in France
• 1919 Red Army captures Ufa in Russia
• 1922 First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University
• 1923 American cash carrying company Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans

• 1924 "Jelly-Roll Blues" is recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton
• 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
• 1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free

• 1933 Spanish president Niceto Alcalá-Zamora takes power

• 1934 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"
• 1935 Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.

• 1941 Archbishop De Young bans priests cooperating with Rijks radio
• 1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
• 1942 German-Netherlands press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe

• 1944 Soviet offensive in Carelia, Finland
• 1945 -10] Australian troops land in Brunei Bay, North Borneo

• 1945 Warner Bros cartoon "A Gruesome Twosome" starring Tweety premieres in USA
• 1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque, Iowa)
• 1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest

• 1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1949 Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
• 1951 "Doodles Weaver Show" debuts on NBC-TV

• 1953 South African premier D. F. Malan visits the Netherlands
• 1953 Worcester County tornado kills 94 injures 1310 and leaves 10,000 homeless

• 1955 Temperature reaches 100°F in Seattle, Washington, the then hottest day on record
• 1955 Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa at Trent Bridge
• 1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
• 1957 First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).

• 1958 Novelty song "The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
• 1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
• 1960 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract

• 1960 Typhoon Mary in China kills at least 1,600
• 1961 Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox

• 1962 Warner Bros "Bill of Hare" with Bug Bunny premieres in USA
• 1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0

• 1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India after being selected by the ruling Congress Party after Jawaharlal Nehru passed away
• 1965 Frenchman Michel Jazy runs world record mile in 3:53.6 in Rennes, France

• 1967 Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
• 1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
• 1967 The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California

• 1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
• 1970 Argentine military junta under Juan Carlos Lanusse ousts President Juan Carlos Onganía

• 1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan

• 1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts dam in Rapid City, South Dakota; 237 people drown

• 1972 In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere

• 1975 Fire in prison hospital at Sanford, Florida, kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard
• 1975 Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
• 1975 UK House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for first time
• 1977 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
• 1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks
• 1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood

• 1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
• 1979 MLB Phillies wear all-burgundy alternate uniforms for 1st and (almost) last time in 10-5 loss to Montreal Expos at Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia; revived 40 years later as part of a "retro night" promotion [1]
• 1979 Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome

• 1980 Phillies and SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
• 1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth

• 1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
• 1983 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim

• 1983 Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
• 1984 "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres

• 1984 Donald Duck's 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
• 1984 Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
• 1984 NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
• 1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD

• 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
• 1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
• 1986 Dow Jones industrial average hits record 1,885.90 points

• 1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
• 1988 "Bloodsport (1987)" premieres in Germany

• 1989 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" premieres in USA
• 1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1

• 1991 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
• 1993 "Amantes" (1991) premieres in France
• 1993 "Body Snatchers" (1993) premieres in France
• 1993 "Ce que femme veut" (1993) premieres in France
• 1993 "Passion Fish" (1992) premieres in France
• 1993 "Tout capour ca!" (1993) premieres in France
• 1993 "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993) premieres
• 1993 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4-1 for a 4-1 series win; Canadiens franchise's 24th Stanley Cup Championship
• 1993 Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
• 1994 "Hudsucker Proxy" premieres in Germany
• 1994 5.6 earthquake strikes southern Mexico
• 1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
• 1995 "The Brady Bunch Movie" based on the 1970s TV series premieres in UK
• 1995 Congo (1995) premieres in USA
• 1995 Dumb & Dumber (1994) premieres in Sweden

• 1995 Killer (1994) premieres in UK
• 1995 Kiss of Death (1995) premieres in UK
• 1995 Man of the House (1995) premieres in UK
• 1995 Neak Sre (1993) premieres in UK
• 1995 Party Girl (1995) premieres in USA
• 1995 Smoke (1995) premieres in USA
• 1995 Wigstock The Movie (1994) premieres in USA

• 1999 Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
• 2001 Stanley Cup Final, Pepsi Center, Denver, CO: Colorado Avalanche beat defending champion New Jersey Devils, 3-1 for 4-3 series win; Avalanche 2nd title
• 2003 Stanley Cup Final, Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ: New Jersey Devils beat Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-0 for 4-3 series win
• 2006 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrates the 1st of 3 national holidays to commemorate his 60 years on the throne.

• 2009 Brazil officially enters recession
• 2010 Finland falls back into a state of recession after GDP contracted 0.4% in Q1 2010 and 0.2% in Q4 2009
• 2010 Hungary comes out of recession after experiencing 0.9% growth in the first quarter as a result of growing exports and effective government spending measures

• 2010 Stanley Cup Final, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA: Chicago Blackhawks edge Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3 in OT for a 4-2 series win; first Championship for Chicago since 1961
• 2011 Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy announces agreement to examine brains of recently deceased San Francisco 49ers football players Joe Perry and John Henry Johnson for signs of injury [1]
• 2012 Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
• 2012 It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
• 2013 67th Tony Awards: "Kinky Boots" (musical) & "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" (play) win
• 2013 67th Tony Awards: Cicely Tyson wins Best Actress for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful"

• 2015 Chris Heston of the San Francisco Giants becomes first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the 2015 MLB season; blanks New York Mets, 5-0

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