9 April
Notable Births
TommyInnit
b. 2004
English internet personality (born 2004)
Hwang Do-yun
b. 2003
South Korean footballer (born 2003)
Nika Mühl
b. 2001
Croatian basketball player (born 2001)
Tiago Djaló
b. 2000
Portuguese footballer (born 2000)
Jackie Evancho
b. 2000
American singer (born 2000)
Lil Nas X
b. 1999
American musician (born 1999)
Stanley Nsoki
b. 1999
French footballer (born 1999)
Elle Fanning
b. 1998
American actress (born 1998)
Luis Arráez
b. 1997
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1997)
Jayden Brailey
b. 1996
Australian rugby league footballer
Giovani Lo Celso
b. 1996
Argentine footballer (born 1996)
Robert Bauer (footballer)
b. 1995
German footballer (born 1995)
Bladee
b. 1994
Swedish rapper (born 1994)
Joshua Ledet
b. 1992
American singer (born 1992)
Raheem Mostert
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Gai Assulin
b. 1991
Israeli professional footballer
Ryan Kelly (basketball)
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Kristen Stewart
b. 1990
American actress and director (born 1990)
Ryan Williams (running back)
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Bianca Belair
b. 1989
American professional wrestler
Notable Deaths
Ray Shero
d. 2025
American ice hockey player and executive (1962–2025)
Karl Berger
d. 2023
German-American jazz pianist (1935–2023)
Dwayne Haskins
d. 2022
American football player (1997–2022)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
d. 2021
Consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
DMX
d. 2021
American rapper (1970–2021)
Nikki Grahame
d. 2021
English television personality (1982–2021)
Ian Gibson (politician)
d. 2021
British politician (1938–2021)
Ramsey Clark
d. 2021
66th United States Attorney General (1927–2021)
Charles Van Doren
d. 2019
American writer and editor (1926–2019)
John Clarke (satirist)
d. 2017
New Zealand comedian, writer, and satirist (1948–2017)
Will Smith (defensive end)
d. 2016
American football player (1981–2016)
Paul Almond
d. 2015
Canadian director (1931–2015)
Margaret Rule
d. 2015
British archaeologist who led the ''Mary Rose'' project
Nina Companeez
d. 2015
French screenwriter
Alexander Dalgarno
d. 2015
British physicist and father of molecular astrophysics
Ivan Doig
d. 2015
American writer
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin
d. 2015
Chinese-American sinologist and librarian (1910–2015)
Chris Banks (American football)
d. 2014
American football player (1973–2014)
Wilfrid Pelletier
d. 1982
Canadian musician and arts administrator (1896–1982)
Frank Lloyd Wright
d. 1959
American architect (1867–1959)
On This Day in History
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2021
Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.
Tatmadaw
2021
Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.
Soyuz MS-18
2020
Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.
Soyuz MS-16
2017
The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
Palm Sunday church bombings
2014
A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
Franklin Regional High School stabbing
2013
A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
2013 Bushehr earthquake
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.
Velika Ivanča shooting
2011
Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.
Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting
2009
In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
Tbilisi
2003
Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
Iraq War
1994
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-59.
Space Shuttle program
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.
Federal judiciary of the United States
1991
Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Georgia (country)
1990
An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
Irish Republican Army
1990
The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement
1990
An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants.
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia
1989
Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
April 9 tragedy
1981
The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.
USS George Washington (SSBN-598)
1980
The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
Iraq
1969
The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.
Concorde