Deaths:
250-Fabianus, Pope (236-50)/saint, dies
288-St. Sebastian, early Christian martyr (commemorated as his feast day)
820-Muslim jurist Abu Abdallah M ibn Idris al-Sjafi'i, dies
842-Theophilus, Byzantine kaiser (829-42), dies
882-Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies
1156-Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1191-Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1479-John II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81
1569-Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible, dies at 80
1612-Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
1639-Mustapha I, sultan of Turkey (1622-23), dies
1666-Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64
1707-Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
1709-François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
1713-Pavao Vitezovic, Croatian historian, dies
1727-John van Bylevelt, Catholic apostole, dies
1739-Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
1745-Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47
1751-John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
1770-Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
1779-Johannes Burman, Dutch botanist, plant author and physician, dies at 71
1810-Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
1813-C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79
1819-Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808), dies at 70
1837-John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84
1848-Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1850-Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
1859-B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73
1862-Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
1873-The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
1875-Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
1882-John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies
1891-David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
1896-Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37
1900-John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81
1900-Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74
1901-Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
*1936-George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
1940-Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861)
1944-James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
1947-Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
1949-Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
1957-James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
1962-Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75
1965-Alan Freed, DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42
1973-Amilcar L Cabral, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered 51
1973-Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
1974-Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77
1988-Philippe de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, dies in Paris at 86
1988-Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
1990-Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
1992-Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Hassuna, sec-gen of Arab League (1952-72), dies
1993-Mercer McCleod, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 86
1994-Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-pres (1963-66), dies at about 81
1995-Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
1995-Robert Shaw, town Planner, dies at 81
1996-David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Duke of Warwick, dies at 61
1996-Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68
1996-Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent, dies at 83
1996-Sidney Korshak, lawyer, dies at 87
1997-Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59
1997-Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100
1997-Vladimir Yamnikov, owner (Kristall vodka), dies of cirrhosis at 56
1998-Zevulun Hammer, Vice PM of Israel, dies
2003-Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
2003-Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
2005-Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
2005-Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (b. 1921)
2005-Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)
2005-Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
2008-Ali Sadikin, former Jakarta famous governor (b. 1927)
2009-Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church (b. 1920)
2009-Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
2009-Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton), English romance writer (b. 1928)
2012-John F Baker Jnr, United States Army Master Sergeant and Medal of Honour recipient dies at 66
2016-George Weidenfeld, British Publisher (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), dies at 96

I just can´t believe this all happened on 1 day.

Important events, birthdays, weddings and deaths are marked with an *.

Edited 4/22/2016 22:47:48

1 day yea, but in every year something

I won't post it all here, over 200 results. Mostly wars and massacres, ahah.

http://www.onthisday.com/day/july/9

960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.

1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.

1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.

1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.

1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.

1614 – Japanese daimyo Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.

1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.

1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.

1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.

1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1898 – The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of an attempted coup d'état in American history.

1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

1917 – The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.

1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

1933 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.

1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.

1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.

1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

1940 – Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.

1942 – World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 88 is adopted.

1957 – A Boeing 377 Stratocruiser disappeared en route from San Francisco, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Wreckage and bodies were discovered a week later.

1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.

1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.

1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.

1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.

1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.

1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.

1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

1987 – Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

1994 – Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.

2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".

2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines. The storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused S$2.86 billion (USD) in damage.

Edited 4/23/2016 18:36:07