On this day: June 9

Events on June 9

• 68 Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. Wikipedia
• 1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River. Wikipedia
• 1732 James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia. Wikipedia
• 1772 The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Wikipedia
• 1856 The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Iowa City for Salt Lake City, Utah. Wikipedia
• 1861 The Beyoglu Protocol turns the district of Mount Lebanon into an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire and grants the Christians more power over the Druze. Wikipedia
• 1862 American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson concluded his successful Shenandoah Valley campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic. Wikipedia
• 1862 American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic. Wikipedia
• 1863 American Civil War: Union and Confederate forces fought the Battle of Brandy Station, the largest cavalry engagement to take place on American soil. Wikipedia
• 1885 Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1920 The courtesan Wang Lianying was murdered in Shanghai, leading to months of media and literary coverage. Wikipedia
• 1923 Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. Wikipedia
• 1928 Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first transpacific flight. Wikipedia
• 1930 A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. Wikipedia
• 1944 World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. Wikipedia
• 1944 World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. Wikipedia
• 1953 The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts. Wikipedia
• 1965 Fighting began between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War. Wikipedia
• 1965 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war. Wikipedia
• 1967 Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria. Wikipedia
• 1968 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1995 Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four. Wikipedia
• 1999 Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. Wikipedia
• 2008 Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people. Wikipedia

Born on June 9

• 1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1705) Wikipedia
• 1661 Feodor III of Russia (died 1682) Wikipedia
• 1672 Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725) Wikipedia
• 1696 Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (died 1726) Wikipedia
• 1781 George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (died 1848) Wikipedia
• 1812 Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (died 1910) Wikipedia
• 1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914) Wikipedia
• 1875 Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968) Wikipedia
• 1891 Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (died 1964) Wikipedia
• 1915 Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009) Wikipedia
• 1916 Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (died 1943) Wikipedia
• 1916 Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2009) Wikipedia
• 1917 Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1941 Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1961 Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author Wikipedia
• 1963 Johnny Depp, American actor Wikipedia
• 1978 Miroslav Klose, German footballer Wikipedia
• 1978 Matt Bellamy, English singer, musician and songwriter Wikipedia
• 1981 Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress Wikipedia
• 1982 Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer Wikipedia
• 1984 Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer Wikipedia
• 1988 Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer Wikipedia

Died on June 9

• 68 Nero, Roman emperor (born 37) Wikipedia
• 373 Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (born 306) Wikipedia
• 597 Columba, Irish missionary and saint (born 521) Wikipedia
• 1572 Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (born 1528) Wikipedia
• 1597 José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534) Wikipedia
• 1870 Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812) Wikipedia
• 1927 Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838) Wikipedia
• 1959 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876) Wikipedia
• 1973 Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887) Wikipedia
• 1974 Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899) Wikipedia
• 1989 George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903) Wikipedia
• 1994 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903) Wikipedia
• 2013 Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954) Wikipedia
• 2022 Amir Liaquat Hussain, Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. (born 1971) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan) Wikipedia
• Autonomy Day (Åland) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Anna Maria Taigi Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Baithéne mac Brénaind Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Columba Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: José de Anchieta Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Primus and Felician Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Coral Triangle Day Wikipedia
• Don Young Day (Alaska, United States) Wikipedia
• La Rioja Day (La Rioja) Wikipedia
• Murcia Day (Murcia) Wikipedia
• National Heroes' Day (Uganda) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 9” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.