Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 9
October 9, 2025 is the 282nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 9
- 1776 –Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
- 1854 –Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- 1874 –General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
- 1942 –The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 4th Infantry Regiment.
- 1962 –Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 1967 –A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- 1969 –In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the “Chicago Eight” that began on September 24.
- 1983 –Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
- 1995 –An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
- 2001 –Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
Who were born on October 9?
- 1871 –Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar (d. 1922)
- 1892 –Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1960 –Maddie Blaustein, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1964 –John Ralston, Canadian actor
- 1966 –David Cameron, British Prime Minister
- 1968 –Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011)
- 1970 –Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
- 1978 –Juan Dixon, American basketball player
- 1993 –Jhoana Marie Tan, Filipina television actress
- 1993 –Scotty McCreery, American singer
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