The April 9th is the 99e Jour of the Année (100e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1097 : The Norman chief Bohémond de Tarente arrives at Constantinople and accepts without difficulty in lending the oath of allegiance to his former enemy, the Byzantine Empereur Alexis Ier Comnène.

• 1241 : Battle of Legnica.
• 1555 : Beginning of the pontificate of the pope Marcel II ( Marcello Cervini ), 222e Pope of the Catholic church. (death the April 30th, after 21 days of pontificate).
• 1609 : Signature, thanks to a mediation of the king de France Louis XIV, Truce Twelve Years between the Spain and the United Provinces (Holland), which leads to a recognition in fact of the independence of those.
• 1682 : Rene Robert Cavelier of the Room takes possession of the the Mississippi in the name of the France.
• 1771 : Pierre Etienne Bourgeois of Boynes is named Secretary of State to the Navy by Louis XV.
• 1795 : Arrest of Jean-Baptiste Massieu, old appointed clergy of the Baillage of Senlis to the General states, constitutional bishop of the department of the Oise.
• 1865 : Capitulation of the Confederation at the court of justice of Appomattox, Virginia; end of the American Civil War.
• 1867 : The the United States buy the Alaska with the Russia.

20th century

• 1940 : Invasion of the Norway and the Denmark by the Nazis.

• 1942 : With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Antonio Mejías Jiménez known as “Antonio Bienvenida”, Spanish Matador.
• 1991 : Independence of the Georgia.
• 1995 : With Ciudad Real (Spain), alternate of Víctor Sánchez Cerdá known as “Víctor Puerto”, Spanish Matador.

21e century

• 2003 : The mode of Saddam Hussein in Iraq falls after 24 years. Seizure of power by the the United States.

Births

• 1757 : Wojciech Bogusławski, actor and playwright Polish († July 23rd 1829)
• 1770: Thomas Johann Seebeck, German Physicist discoverer of the Thermoelectricity.
• 1806 : Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer originator of the Great Eastern († 1859)
• 1816: Charles-Eugene Delaunay, astronomer and mathematician French.
• 1821 : Charles Baudelaire, poet and writer French († August 31st 1867)
• 1835: Léopold II of Belgium († December 17th 1909), king of the Belgian of 1865 with 1909.
• 1872 : Leon Blum († 1950), Politician French.
• 1892 : Annibale de Gasparis, Astronomer and Mathematician Italy N.
• 1895 : Michel Simon, French actor († May 30th 1975).
• 1902 : Theodore Monod, naturalist, explorer, scholar and humanistic French († November 22nd 2000).
• 1903 :
• Gregory Pincus, doctor and American biologist († 1967), Co-inventor of the contraceptive pill
• Ward Jump, American Actor († 1960, 57 years)
• 1911: Alfred Coste-Floret († 1990) and Paul Coste-Floret († 1979), twin brothers, both politicians French.
• 1915 : Daniel Johnson (father), Prime Minister for Quebec († September 26th 1968).
• 1921 : Yitzhak Navon, poet and politician Israel IEN, 5th President of the State of Israel of the April 19th 1978 with the May 5th 1983.
• 1922 : Albert Weinberg, Belgian draftsman of Cartoon
• 1923:
• Taïeb Boulahrouf, Algerian politician.
• Albert Decourtray, archbishop of Lyon, cardinal and academician French († 1994).
• 1926 : Hugh Hefner, founder of the magazine Playboy
• 1933: Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor of Cinema and Theater.
• 1948 : Bernard-Marie Koltès, French writer.
• 1950 : Kenneth D. Cockrell, American astronaut
• 1954: Dennis Quaid, American actor
• 1957: Andre Manoukian, composer-songwriter, arranger and musician French.
• 1959 : Alain Platel, choreographer and Belgian director .
• 1971 : Jacques Villeneuve, racing driver Canadian
• 1973: Sergei Konovalov, biathlète Russian.
• 1974 : Jenna Jameson, American actress
• 1977: Gerald Way, singer of the group My Chemical Lovesong
• 1979: Katsumi, actress porn Frenchwoman.
• 1980 : Albert Hammond Jr, American guitarist of the group The Strokes.
• 1981 : Eric Harris, student, author of the Shooting of the college Columbine
• 1987: Jesse McCartney, actor and American singer.

Death

•    491: Zénon, Byzantine emperor
•     715: Constantin, pope
• 1024: Benoit VIII ( Theophylactus ), pope
• 1137: Guillaume X of Poitiers, count de Poitiers and duke of Aquitaine (° 1099)
• 1241: Henri II the Piles, duke of Cracow (°C. 1191)
• 1483: Edouard IV of England, king d' Angleterre (° April 28th 1442)
• 1484: Edouard de Middleham, Prince de Galles (° 1473)
• 1492: Laurent de Médicis, Italian statesman and the leader de facto of the republic florentine during the Italian Rebirth. (° January 1st 1449)
• 1553: François Rabelais, doctor and French writer of the Rebirth. (° towards 1494)
• 1557: Mikael Agricola, protesting Finnish (°C. 1510)
• 1626: Francis Bacon, philosopher English (° 1561)
• 1643: Benedetto Castelli, Mathematician Italy N, disciple of Galileo. (° 1577).
• 1654 : Matei Basarab, prince de Valachie (B. 1588)
• 1693: Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer (° April 1618)
• 1739: Nicolas Saunderson, British mathematician (° 1682)
• 1754: Christian Wolf, German philosopher (° January 24th 1679)
• 1804: Jacques Necker, politician and financier French (° September 30th 1732)
• 1889: Eugene Chevreul, French chemist (° August 31st 1786)
• 1910: Vittoria Aganoor, 54 years, Italian poetess. (° May 26th 1855).
• 1936 : Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (° July 26th 1855)
• 1945 :
• Wilhelm Canaries, military German (° January 1st 1887)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, religious German (° February 4th 1906)
• Johann Georg Elser was a resistant German to the Nazism which wanted, and failed, “to prevent the war” in 1939 († in the concentration camp of Dachau).
• 1951 : Vilhelm Bjerknes, physicist and Norwegian meteorologist (° March 14th 1862)
• 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (° June 8th 1867)
• 1961: Zog Ier, King d' Albanie (° October 8th 1895)
• 1968: Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, écrivaine, essay writer and resistant Polish (° August 8th 1890)
• 1976: Phil Ochs, singer states-unien (° December 19th 1940)
• 1991: Martin Hannett, British sound engineer (° May 31st 1948)
• 1999: Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, political personality native of Niger (° May 9th 1949)
• 2001: Jerome Lindon, French editor (° June 9th 1925)
• 2002: Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (° June 4th 1891)
• 2007 :
• Alain Etchegoyen, philosopher and teacher French (° November 16th 1951)
• Egon Bondy, Poet, Philosopher, Playwright and Czech Novelist. (° January 20th 1930).

Celebrations

• Tunisia: Celebrates martyrs

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Holy Waudru († 686 or 688), abbess, owner of Mons

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Raphaël, Nicolas and Irene de Mytilène († 1463), néo-martyrs Greek.

See too

• April 9th in sport
• April 9th in the railroads

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