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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9th of June 0053 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia |
| 9th of June 0062 | EVENT | Claudia Octavia is executed. |
| 9th of June 0068 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad. |
| 9th of June 0721 | EVENT | Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. |
| 9th of June 1310 | EVENT | Duccio's Maesta Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy. |
| 9th of June 1534 | EVENT | Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River. |
| 9th of June 1650 | EVENT | The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas. |
| 9th of June 1667 | EVENT | The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. |
| 9th of June 1732 | EVENT | James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. |
| 9th of June 1772 | EVENT | The British schooner Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island. |
| 9th of June 1798 | EVENT | Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield. |
| 9th of June 1815 | EVENT | End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set. |
| 9th of June 1856 | EVENT | Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts. |
| 9th of June 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia. |
| 9th of June 1873 | EVENT | Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days. |
| 9th of June 1885 | EVENT | A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France. |
| 9th of June 1915 | EVENT | William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. |
| 9th of June 1923 | EVENT | Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. |
| 9th of June 1928 | EVENT | Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross. |
| 9th of June 1930 | EVENT | Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone. |
| 9th of June 1934 | EVENT | Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen. |
| 9th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. |
| 9th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. |
| 9th of June 1946 | EVENT | King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch. |
| 9th of June 1953 | EVENT | Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94. |
| 9th of June 1954 | EVENT | McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" |
| 9th of June 1958 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom. |
| 9th of June 1959 | EVENT | The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. |
| 9th of June 1965 | EVENT | Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky. |
| 9th of June 1967 | EVENT | Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria |
| 9th of June 1968 | EVENT | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. |
| 9th of June 1973 | EVENT | Secretariat wins the Triple Crown. |
| 9th of June 1974 | EVENT | Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. |
| 9th of June 1978 | EVENT | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men. |
| 9th of June 1979 | EVENT | The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) kills seven. |
| 9th of June 1985 | EVENT | Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991). |
| 9th of June 1986 | EVENT | The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. |
| 9th of June 1999 | EVENT | Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. |
| 9th of June 2008 | EVENT | In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back. |
| 9th of June 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655) |
| 9th of June 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666) |
| 9th of June 1595 | BIRTHDAY | King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648) |
| 9th of June 1640 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705) |
| 9th of June 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682) |
| 9th of June 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725) |
| 9th of June 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747) |
| 9th of June 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835) |
| 9th of June 1781 | BIRTHDAY | George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848) |
| 9th of June 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849) |
| 9th of June 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910) |
| 9th of June 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1914) |
| 9th of June 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914) |
| 9th of June 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927) |
| 9th of June 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921) |
| 9th of June 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931) |
| 9th of June 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Alberic Magnard, French composer (d. 1914) |
| 9th of June 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) |
| 9th of June 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963) |
| 9th of June 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952) |
| 9th of June 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964) |
| 9th of June 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963) |
| 9th of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Fagioli, Italian racing driver (d. 1952) |
| 9th of June 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984) |
| 9th of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and entrepreneur (d. 1997) |
| 9th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 9th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | George Webb, British actor (d. 1998) |
| 9th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970) |
| 9th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009) |
| 9th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Les Paul, American guitarist and inventor (d. 2009) |
| 9th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank (d. 2009) |
| 9th of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | John Hospers, American philosopher and Libertarian politician |
| 9th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Hertzberg, American scholar (d. 2006) |
| 9th of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | George Axelrod, American producer, playwright and director (d. 2003) |
| 9th of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941) |
| 9th of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist (d. 1988) |
| 9th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Farhat ("The Sheik"), American professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 9th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Laumer, American author (d. 1993) |
| 9th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Ace, American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954) |
| 9th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara, French singer (d. 1997) |
| 9th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager |
| 9th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Santos, American actor |
| 9th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984) |
| 9th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mick O'Dwyer, Irish footballer and manager |
| 9th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Mason, American comedian |
| 9th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Rosenthal, German biologist |
| 9th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wuorinen, American composer |
| 9th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | David Hobbs, English racecar driver and commentator |
| 9th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ileana Cotrubas, Romanian soprano |
| 9th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Webb, American novelist |
| 9th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Vitale, American sportscaster |
| 9th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Lord, English pianist and organist (Deep Purple) |
| 9th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Burghardt, German footballer |
| 9th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Haldeman, American science fiction author |
| 9th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Ocana, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994) |
| 9th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Nike Wagner, German art festival director |
| 9th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kiran Bedi, Indian social activist and police officer |
| 9th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Gurda, American historian |
| 9th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician |
| 9th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player |
| 9th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Parker, American baseball player |
| 9th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | James Newton Howard, American film composer |
| 9th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Schmitz, German footballer |
| 9th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004) |
| 9th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist (UFO, Lone Star) |
| 9th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | George Perez, American comic book artist |
| 9th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Maguire, American novelist |
| 9th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada |
| 9th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Pewsey, English historian |
| 9th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer |
| 9th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Cornwell, American Novelist |
| 9th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist |
| 9th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter and playwright |
| 9th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor |
| 9th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Yuval Banai, Israeli musician and singer (Mashina) |
| 9th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Depp, American actor |
| 9th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist and political activist |
| 9th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Koepp, American screenwriter and director |
| 9th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and smooth jazz bassist (d. 2009) |
| 9th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress |
| 9th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer |
| 9th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster |
| 9th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Cooey, American murderer (d. 2008) |
| 9th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner |
| 9th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper |
| 9th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Kiriazis, American actor |
| 9th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Wynalda, American footballer |
| 9th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Miklosa, Hungarian coloratura soprano |
| 9th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer |
| 9th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Renstrom, American guitarist |
| 9th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie McKeown, Scottish vocalist and guitarist (The Yummy Fur, 1990s) |
| 9th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress |
| 9th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Horsley, Australian football player |
| 9th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tedy Bruschi, American football player |
| 9th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director |
| 9th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Ponte, Spanish model and member (by marriage) of the Spanish Royal Family |
| 9th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Lee, British television/radio personality |
| 9th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Samoth, Norwegian guitarist and drummer (Emperor, Zyklon) |
| 9th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Winn, American baseball player |
| 9th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Addo, German-born Ghanaian footballer |
| 9th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer |
| 9th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Saturday, American football player |
| 9th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Amisha Patel, Indian actress |
| 9th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player |
| 9th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant |
| 9th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Bellamy, English vocalist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (Muse) |
| 9th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michaela Conlin, American actress |
| 9th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shandi Finnessey, American beauty queen |
| 9th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Klose, German football player |
| 9th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Fontenot, American baseball player |
| 9th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Udonis Haslem, American basketball player |
| 9th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lehlohonolo Seema, South African football player |
| 9th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | D'banj, Nigerian singer, songwriter and harmonica player |
| 9th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Navid Akhavan, Iranian-German actor |
| 9th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anoushka Shankar, English-born sitarist, daughter of Ravi Shankar |
| 9th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer and model |
| 9th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress |
| 9th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Sturmer, Austrian singer |
| 9th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Walker, Canadian actor |
| 9th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alektra Blue, American pornographic actress |
| 9th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player |
| 9th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Tang, Hong Kong actor |
| 9th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Firas Al Khatib, Syrian football player |
| 9th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Aruni Kashyap, Indian poet |
| 9th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player |
| 9th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Masoud Shojaei, Iranian football player |
| 9th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Sneijder, Dutch football player |
| 9th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kaleth Morales, Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 9th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anthimos Ananiadis, Greek actor |
| 9th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player |
| 9th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Kahui, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 9th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress |
| 9th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress |
| 9th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor |
| 9th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Karan Wahi, Indian actor |
| 9th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek football player |
| 9th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mae Whitman, American actress and voice actress |
| 9th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Isakovic, Slovenian swimmer |
| 9th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Chloe Agnew, Irish singer (Celtic Woman) |
| 9th of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Socha, English Actress |
| 9th of June 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Chuchran, American actress |
| 9th of June 0062 | DEATH | Claudia Octavia, wife of Roman Emperor Nero (Born 40) |
| 9th of June 0068 | DEATH | Nero, Roman Emperor (Born 37) |
| 9th of June 0373 | DEATH | Ephrem the Syrian, Syriac Christian hymnodist (Born 306) |
| 9th of June 0597 | DEATH | St. Columba, Irish Christian missionary (Born 521) |
| 9th of June 0630 | DEATH | Shahrbaraz, King of Persia |
| 9th of June 1361 | DEATH | Philippe de Vitry, French composer (Born 1291) |
| 9th of June 1563 | DEATH | William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (Born 1506) |
| 9th of June 1572 | DEATH | Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (Born 1528) |
| 9th of June 1583 | DEATH | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
| 9th of June 1656 | DEATH | Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (Born 1572) |
| 9th of June 1716 | DEATH | Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (Born 1670) |
| 9th of June 1717 | DEATH | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (Born 1648) |
| 9th of June 1799 | DEATH | Chevalier de Saint-Georges, African-French swordsman, soldier of fortune and composer, known as the "black Mozart" (Born 1745) |
| 9th of June 1834 | DEATH | William Carey, English minister and missionary (Born 1761) |
| 9th of June 1870 | DEATH | Charles Dickens, English author (Born 1812) |
| 9th of June 1875 | DEATH | Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (Born 1795) |
| 9th of June 1892 | DEATH | William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (Born 1863) |
| 9th of June 1892 | DEATH | Yoshitoshi, Japanese Ukiyo-e artist (Born 1839) |
| 9th of June 1912 | DEATH | Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (Born 1852) |
| 9th of June 1923 | DEATH | Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (Born 1846) |
| 9th of June 1946 | DEATH | Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII], King of Thailand (Born 1925) |
| 9th of June 1952 | DEATH | Adolf Busch, German composer (Born 1891) |
| 9th of June 1958 | DEATH | Robert Donat, English actor (Born 1905) |
| 9th of June 1959 | DEATH | Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1876) |
| 9th of June 1961 | DEATH | Camille Guerin, French scientist (Born 1872) |
| 9th of June 1964 | DEATH | Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (Born 1879) |
| 9th of June 1968 | DEATH | Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (Born 1884) |
| 9th of June 1973 | DEATH | Erich von Manstein, German military commander (Born 1887) |
| 9th of June 1974 | DEATH | Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1899) |
| 9th of June 1979 | DEATH | Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1884) |
| 9th of June 1981 | DEATH | Allen Ludden, American game show host (Born 1917) |
| 9th of June 1989 | DEATH | Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (Born 1915) |
| 9th of June 1989 | DEATH | George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903) |
| 9th of June 1991 | DEATH | Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (Born 1903) |
| 9th of June 1993 | DEATH | Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (Born 1950) |
| 9th of June 1993 | DEATH | Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (Born 1921) |
| 9th of June 1994 | DEATH | Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903) |
| 9th of June 1997 | DEATH | Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (Born 1908) |
| 9th of June 2000 | DEATH | Jacob Lawrence, American painter (Born 1917) |
| 9th of June 2004 | DEATH | Rosey Brown, American football player (Born 1932) |
| 9th of June 2004 | DEATH | Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (Born 1945) |
| 9th of June 2006 | DEATH | Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (Born 1946) |
| 9th of June 2007 | DEATH | Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (Born 1981) |
| 9th of June 2008 | DEATH | Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian (Born 1919) |
| 9th of June 2008 | DEATH | Algis Budrys, American writer (Born 1931) |
| 9th of June 2009 | DEATH | Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver (Born 1930) |