9th June is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 205 days remain until the end of the year. Today also marks Coral Triangle Day, a day set aside to celebrate and raise awareness of the ocean conservation and protection, especially on the Coral Triangle, the world’s epicentre of marine biodiversity. Find out some important events that occurred on this day in history.

Historical events

68 — Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.

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.

1531 — Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

1534 — French explorer Jacques Cartier first sails into the mouth of St Lawrence River.

1549 — The Church of England adopts the Book of Common Prayer.

1572 — The Lost Love of Cheating Henry. The mistress of French king Henry IV was beautiful, intelligent – and pregnant. He wanted her by his side in place of his childless Queen. But fate stepped in.

1628 — The first deportation from what is now the US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts.

1650 — The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard establishes. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.

1790 — The first book copyrighted under the constitution, “Philadelphia Spelling Book”.

1822 — Charles Graham fo New York patents porcelain false teeth.

1869 — Pharmacist and root beer brewer Charles E. Hires sells his first root beer, in Philadelphia.

1890 — Comic opera “Robin Hood” by Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith, and Clement Scott premieres in Chicago.

 

9th June in the 20th Century

1902 — The first Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia).

1909 — Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days.

1923 — Brinks unveils the first armoured security vans.

1930 — Paavo Nurmi, a runner nicknamed the “Flying Finn”, runs world record 6 miles (29:36.4).

1930 — Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

1931 — The first rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard.

1934 — The first appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, “The Wise Little Hen”.

1945 — Warner Bros cartoon “A Gruesome Twosome” starring Tweety premieres in the USA.

1954 — Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during Senate-Army hearings.

1956 — Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed.

 

More dates

1957 — First ascent of Broad Peak (the world’s 12th highest mountain).

1959 — The first ballistic missile sub launches (George Washington-Groton, Ct).

1972 — 14″ of rain in six hours bursts Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237.

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

1977 — 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist.

1977 — Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks.

1978 — Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, the first book produced using the printing press, (1 of 21 complete versions) sells for $2.4 million, London.

1978 — Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.

1982 — Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley.

1983 — Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election.

1990 — Michael Jackson hospitalised with inflamed rib cartilage

1995 — Dumb and Dumber (1994) premieres in Sweden.

 

9th June in the 21st Century

2012 — Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses.

2012 — It is announced that up to $125 million in loans will be given to aid Spain’s struggling banks.

2013 — NSA contractor Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents.

2014 — Laverne Cox becomes the first transgender person to appear on the cover of “Time” Magazine.

2016 — US President Barack Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton as Democratic Presidential nominee.

2016 — World Health Organisation advises delaying pregnancy in areas with the Zika virus.