9th April anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1806
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer whose bridges and tunnels are still in use today." more
  • 1821
  • France
  • "Birth of Charles Baudelaire, French poet." more
  • 1898
  • United States
  • "Birth of Paul Robeson, American singer." more
  • 1908
  • France
  • "Birth of Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born French artist who specialised in geometric abstract art."
• event
  • 1413
  • Great Britain
  • Henry V crowned King of England. more
  • 1511
  • Great Britain
  • St John's College Cambridge founded. more
  • 1682
  • France
  • The mouth of ther Mississippi was discovered by Robert Cavelier de La Salle. more
  • 1731
  • Great Britain
  • "The Spanish coast guard ship San Antonio stopped and boarded the British brig, Rebecca. The Spanish officer cut off the ear of Robert Jenkins, the Rebecca's Captain. 8 years later this incident erupted into The War of Jenkins Ear." more
  • 1860
  • France
  • "Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville of Paris made the first known recording of the human voice, a lady singing Au Clair de la Lune." more
  • 1937
  • Japan
  • "The Kamikaze, the first Japanese made plane to fly to Europe, landed at Croydon Airport" more
  • 1959
  • United States
  • NASA announced that it had selected its first astronauts the Mercury 7
  • 1969
  • Great Britain
  • "The British-built supersonic aircraft Concorde made its first test flight, from Bristol to Fairford, Gloucestershire. (France tested theirs in March 1969)"
• Death
  • 715
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Death of Pope Constantine. more
  • 1024
  • Italy
  • Death of Pope Benedict VIII more
  • 1740
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Charles Drew, executed near Bury St Edmunds for the murder of his father." more
  • 1807
  • Great Britain
  • "John Opie died 1807 (born 1761). Sought after as a portraitist, though he saw himself primarily as a history painter."
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Americas most famous architect"
  • 1999
  • Niger
  • "Death of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, assassinated"
  • 2001
  • Japan
  • "Death of Jimmu, first Emperor of Japan." more