9th June anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1934
  • United States
  • "Birth of Jackie Wilson, American soul and R and B singer." more
• event
  • 1534
  • Canada
  • Jacques Cartier is the first European to discovers the St Lawrence River. more
  • 1548
  • Great Britain
  • First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
  • 1732
  • United States
  • James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia more
  • 1928
  • Australia
  • The first trans-Pacific flight was completed by Charles Kingsford Smith. more
  • 1934
  • United States
  • The Walt Disney character Donald Duck first appeared in the cartoon The Wise Little Hen
  • 1958
  • Great Britain
  • "The Queen opened the newly modernised and extended Gatwick Airport, London."
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "The USS George Washington was launched in Connecticut, USA. It was the first submarine to be equipped with ballistic missiles"
  • 1983
  • Great Britain
  • Margaret Thatcher won her second term as British Prime Minister with a landslide victory in the General Election.
  • 1983
  • Great Britain
  • Tony Blair (British Prime Minister 1997–2007) was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the first time.
• Death
  • 62
  • Italy
  • "Death of Claudia Octavia, first wife of Emperor Nero, allegedly executed on their 9th wedding anniversary." more
  • 68
  • Italy
  • "Death of the Emperor Nero, by suicide." more
  • 1864
  • France
  • "Death of Dr. Edmond-Désiré Couty de la Pommerais, executed for murder. His conviction was one of the first using the discipline of forensic science." more
  • 1870
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Charles Dickens, English writer." more
  • 1959
  • Germany
  • "Death of Adolf Windaus, German chemist, won the Nobel Prize for his work on vitamin D, sterols, and the structure of cholesterol" more