9th October anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1907
  • "Quintin Hogg born 1907 (died 2001). Conservative politician. Macmillan told him in 1963 that he would resign and expected him to succeed him. Macmillan then fell ill and changed his mind without telling Hailsham, who, at the Conservative Party conference "
  • 1908
  • France
  • "Birth of Jacques Tati, French comic actor and film director ." more
  • 1909
  • "Birth of Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (197480)"
• event
  • 1779
  • First Luddite riots
  • 1934
  • "Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia, and French foreign minister, Louis Barthou were assassinated by Croatian terrorists in Marseilles, France"
  • 1949
  • Harvard Law School announced that it would begin admitting women for the first time from autumn 1950
• Death
  • 1709
  • "Death of Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II"
  • 1958
  • Death of Pope Pius XII .
  • 1967
  • Che Guevara killed in Bolivia – becomes a cult hero
  • 1978
  • Belgium
  • "Death of Jacques Brel, influential Belgian singer-songwriter." more