Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 9 throughout history.
The Nagahan wedding bombing was a suicide bombing on a wedding party, which occurred on 9 June 2010 at around 21:00 local time in the village of Nagahan in Arghandab District of K…
At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar
The Pearl Continental hotel bombing occurred on 9 June 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, in which 17 people were killed and at least 46 people injured. The blast occurred at the five-st…
An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan
The 2008 Beni Amrane bombings were two bombings on June 9, 2008 that killed 13 people in the town of Beni Amrane in the Boumerdès Province, 50 km (31 mi) from Algiers, the capital…
Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), …
Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 was a scheduled flight from Auckland to Palmerston North. On 9 June 1995, the de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 aircraft crashed into the Tararua Range …
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Is
The Sydney Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney in Australia killed seven people and destroyed the ride on 9 June 1979. The fire was originally blamed on an electrical fault despi…
The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Christian denomination and the largest denomination in the Latter Day Sa…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy o
Secretariat, also known as Big Red, was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the ninth winner of the American Triple Crown, setting and still holding the fastest tim…
In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U
The Black Hills are an outlying subrange of the greater Rocky Mountain system rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming, United Sta…
Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and cau
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's…
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The Six-Day War, or the 1967 Arab–Israeli war, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, in the context of the Arab–Israeli con…
Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated State of…
The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguy
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Uni…
Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of
USS George Washington (SSBN-598) was the United States's first operational ballistic missile submarine. She was the lead ship of her class of nuclear ballistic missile submarines,…
The USS George Washington is launched
Aeroflot Flight 105 was an aviation accident involving an Ilyushin Il-12P aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on June 9, 1958 near Magadan, Russia, resulting in the deat…
Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24
Broad Peak is one of the eight-thousanders, and is located in the Karakoram range spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China. It is the 12th highest mountain in the w…
First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl
Joseph Nye Welch was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCa…
Joseph N
An extremely devastating and deadly tornado outbreak impacted the Midwestern and Northeastern United States at the beginning of June 1953. It included two tornadoes that caused at…
The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts
The International Council on Archives is an international non-governmental organization which exists to promote international cooperation for archives and archivists. It was set u…
Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and ai…
World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in repris