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Events on the 9th of April in history

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09 Apr 0193 Lucius Septimius Severus is proclaimed Emperor by his troops in Illyricum (Balkans). He marches with his army (16 legions) to Rome.
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09 Apr 0475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
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09 Apr 0537 Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.
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09 Apr 0715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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09 Apr 1241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans
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09 Apr 1241 Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
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09 Apr 1288 Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam.
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09 Apr 1388 Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
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09 Apr 1413 Henry V is crowned King of England.
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09 Apr 1440 Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
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09 Apr 1454 Milan / Venice signs peace of Lodi
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09 Apr 1454 The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
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09 Apr 1474 Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon / Italians
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09 Apr 1483 Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as King of England
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09 Apr 1511 St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
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09 Apr 1538 Danish King Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
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09 Apr 1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
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09 Apr 1585 The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
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09 Apr 1609 Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
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09 Apr 1621 Spain and Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
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09 Apr 1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
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09 Apr 1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
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09 Apr 1682 Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
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09 Apr 1691 French troops occupy Mons
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09 Apr 1770 Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
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09 Apr 1782 American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
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09 Apr 1783 Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
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09 Apr 1808 Mayor Wolters offers French King Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
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09 Apr 1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as Minister of Finance
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09 Apr 1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Philadelphia)
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09 Apr 1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
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09 Apr 1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain
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09 Apr 1833 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
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09 Apr 1838 National Galley opens in London
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09 Apr 1860 On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
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09 Apr 1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
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09 Apr 1865 Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama
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09 Apr 1865 Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox
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09 Apr 1865 American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
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09 Apr 1867 Alaska Purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
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09 Apr 1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
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09 Apr 1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
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09 Apr 1878 1st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
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09 Apr 1909 The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
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09 Apr 1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard)
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09 Apr 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
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09 Apr 1914 "World, the Flesh & the Devil, " 1st color film, shown in London
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09 Apr 1914 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
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09 Apr 1914 Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
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09 Apr 1914 Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
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09 Apr 1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
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09 Apr 1917 Battle of Arras begins
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09 Apr 1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
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09 Apr 1917 World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
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09 Apr 1918 Latvia proclaims independence
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09 Apr 1918 The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
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09 Apr 1918 World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
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09 Apr 1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
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09 Apr 1927 Italy and US anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences
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09 Apr 1928 Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
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09 Apr 1928 Turkey passes separation of church and state
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09 Apr 1931 Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Montreal Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
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09 Apr 1932 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep New York Rangers in 3 games
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09 Apr 1935 Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
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09 Apr 1937 The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
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09 Apr 1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
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09 Apr 1939 Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
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09 Apr 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
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09 Apr 1940 Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
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09 Apr 1940 World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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09 Apr 1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
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09 Apr 1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
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09 Apr 1942 World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March: United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
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09 Apr 1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
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09 Apr 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
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09 Apr 1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
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09 Apr 1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
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09 Apr 1945 The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
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09 Apr 1945 World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
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09 Apr 1945 World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force
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09 Apr 1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
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09 Apr 1947 Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
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09 Apr 1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
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09 Apr 1947 The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
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09 Apr 1947 The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
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09 Apr 1948 Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
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09 Apr 1948 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
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09 Apr 1949 UN International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages
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09 Apr 1950 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
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09 Apr 1950 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win
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09 Apr 1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia
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09 Apr 1952 Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
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09 Apr 1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
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09 Apr 1953 Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
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09 Apr 1954 WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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09 Apr 1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
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09 Apr 1957 The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
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09 Apr 1959 13th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
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09 Apr 1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs. Washingston Senators)
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09 Apr 1959 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
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09 Apr 1959 NASA names 1st 7 Astronauts for Project Mercury
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09 Apr 1959 Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
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09 Apr 1960 14th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
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09 Apr 1960 South African Premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
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09 Apr 1960 Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
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09 Apr 1961 The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
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09 Apr 1962 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
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09 Apr 1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story, " Sophia Loren and Max Schell win
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09 Apr 1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
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09 Apr 1965 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
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09 Apr 1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in the UK
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09 Apr 1965 India and Pakistan engage in border fight
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09 Apr 1965 Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
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09 Apr 1966 Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
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09 Apr 1966 Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
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09 Apr 1967 "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 performances
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09 Apr 1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
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09 Apr 1967 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280
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09 Apr 1967 The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
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09 Apr 1968 German DR adopts constitution
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09 Apr 1968 Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta
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09 Apr 1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
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09 Apr 1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
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09 Apr 1969 Chicago Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
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09 Apr 1969 The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
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09 Apr 1969 The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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09 Apr 1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
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09 Apr 1972 "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
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09 Apr 1972 36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
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09 Apr 1972 USSR and Iraq sign friendship treaty
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09 Apr 1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
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09 Apr 1973 Otto Kerner, former Governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
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09 Apr 1975 Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
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09 Apr 1975 The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
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09 Apr 1976 US and Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
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09 Apr 1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
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09 Apr 1978 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
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09 Apr 1978 Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, and 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
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09 Apr 1978 David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
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09 Apr 1979 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter, " Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win
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09 Apr 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
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09 Apr 1980 Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs. Isles
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09 Apr 1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6
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09 Apr 1980 The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
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09 Apr 1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
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09 Apr 1981 The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
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09 Apr 1982 LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
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09 Apr 1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
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09 Apr 1983 Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
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09 Apr 1984 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment, " R Duvall and S Maclaine win
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09 Apr 1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
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09 Apr 1986 "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
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09 Apr 1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
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09 Apr 1988 "Les Miserables, " opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
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09 Apr 1988 Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
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09 Apr 1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
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09 Apr 1989 53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283
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09 Apr 1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
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09 Apr 1989 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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09 Apr 1989 Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt and loses Masters golf tournament
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09 Apr 1989 Washington DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision (allow abortions)
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09 Apr 1989 The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
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09 Apr 1990 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
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09 Apr 1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
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09 Apr 1990 New York Islanders beat the New York Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
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09 Apr 1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0
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09 Apr 1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
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09 Apr 1991 Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union
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09 Apr 1992 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
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09 Apr 1992 Florida drops rape charges against New York Mets Gooden, Boston and Coleman
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09 Apr 1992 John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England
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09 Apr 1992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges
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09 Apr 1992 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
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09 Apr 1992 US Federal Court finds Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
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09 Apr 1992 William O Studeman, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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09 Apr 1992 A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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09 Apr 1993 Colorado Rockies 1st home game and 1st victory, 11-4 over Montreal Expos
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09 Apr 1994 BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
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09 Apr 1994 Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
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09 Apr 1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
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09 Apr 1995 "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
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09 Apr 1995 59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
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09 Apr 1997 Cleveland Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
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09 Apr 1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion
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09 Apr 1997 NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL and possible "World Classic Bowl"
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09 Apr 1999 Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
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09 Apr 2003 Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
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09 Apr 2005 Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
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09 Apr 2009 In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
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09 Apr 2013 At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
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09 Apr 2013 A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
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09 Apr 2014 A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
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