October 9
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[edit] Events
- 1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first known European to reach North America
- 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1760 - 7 Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
- 1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
- 1820 - Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
- 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
- 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 1963 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
- 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 2001 - Israel’s Mossad sends two lethal anthrax letters to the United States Senate.
- 2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
[edit] Births
- 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
- 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
- 1918 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
[edit] Deaths
- 1958 - Pope Pius XII, (b. 1876)
- 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
- 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
