Summary of the Day ✨ 9 April (09/04)
On this day, Burmese security forces killed at least 82 civilians in the Bago massacre while Coptic churches in Egypt were targeted in Palm Sunday bombings, and a student stabbed 20 people at a Pennsylvania high school. Meanwhile, space exploration continued with two separate Soyuz launches carrying crews to the International Space Station.
Historical Events 📜
- 2021: Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.
- 2021: Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.
- 2020: Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.
- 2017: The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
- 2014: A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
- 2013: A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2009: In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
- 2003: Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
- 1994: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-59.
- 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.
- 1991: Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990: An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
- 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.
Famous Births 👶
- 2004: TommyInnit, English YouTuber and streamer
- 2003: Hwang Do-yun, South Korean footballer
- 2001: Nika Mühl, Croatian basketball player
- 2000: Tiago Djaló, Portuguese footballer
- 2000: Jackie Evancho, American singer
- 1999: Stanley Nsoki, French footballer
- 1999: Lil Nas X, American rapper
- 1999: Rúben Vinagre, Portuguese footballer
- 1998: Elle Fanning, American actress
- 1997: Luis Arráez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1996: Jayden Brailey, Australian rugby league player
- 1996: Giovani Lo Celso, Argentine footballer
- 1995: Domagoj Bošnjak, Croatian basketball player
- 1995: Robert Bauer, German-Kazakhstani footballer
- 1995: Demi Vermeulen, Dutch Paralympic equestrian
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Ray Shero, American ice hockey player and executive (born 1962)
- 2023: Karl Berger, German-American jazz pianist (born 1935)
- 2022: Dwayne Haskins, American football player (born 1997)
- 2021: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921)
- 2021: DMX, American rapper and actor (born 1970)
- 2021: Nikki Grahame, British reality-TV icon (born 1982)
- 2021: Ian Gibson, British scientist and Labour Party politician (born 1938)
- 2021: Ramsey Clark, American lawyer (born 1927)
- 2019: Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (born 1926)
- 2017: John Clarke, New Zealand-Australian comedian, writer, and satirist (born 1948)
- 2016: Duane Clarridge, American spy (born 1932)
- 2016: Will Smith, American football player (born 1981)
- 2015: Paul Almond, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)
- 2015: Margaret Rule, British marine archaeologist (born 1928)
- 2015: Nina Companeez, French director and screenwriter (born 1937)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Acacius of Amida - Christian feast day:
Casilda of Toledo - Christian feast day:
Demetrius of Thessaloniki - Christian feast day:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anglicanism, Lutheranism) - Christian feast day:
Gaucherius - Christian feast day:
Materiana - Christian feast day:
Blessed Thomas of Tolentino - Christian feast day:
Waltrude - Christian feast day:
April 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Baghdad Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
- Constitution Day (Kosovo)
- Day of National Unity (Georgia)
- Day of the Finnish Language (Finland)
- Day of Valor or Araw ng Kagitingan (Philippines)
- Feast of the Second Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)