June 9, 2024 is the 161st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
June 9 Historical Event(s)
411 BC
Coup in Athens succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
68
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
1856
Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1900
Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
1915
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.
1928
Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1934
Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1967
Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1986
The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
2008
In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.
Who were born on June 9?
1781
George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
1843
Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
1931
Joe Santos, American actor
1945
Nike Wagner, German art festival director
1950
Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
1963
Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist and political activist
1971
Jackie McKeown, Scottish vocalist and guitarist (The Yummy Fur, 1990s)
1977
Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1978
Matthew Bellamy, English vocalist, guitarist, pianist and songwriter (Muse)
1981
Anoushka Shankar, English-born sitarist, daughter of Ravi Shankar
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