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: April 9
April 9, 2024 is the 100th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 266 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 9
- 1852 –At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam–God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.
- 1909 –The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
- 1918 –World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
- 1947 –The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1948 –Jorge Eliécer Gaitán’s assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
- 1959 –Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
- 1961 –The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
- 1965 –Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
- 1969 –The “Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1992 –John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
Who were born on April 9?
- 1686 –James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
- 1691 –Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
- 1865 –Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-born engineer and mathematician (d. 1923)
- 1895 –Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)
- 1926 –Hugh Hefner, American entrepreneur and publisher
- 1946 –Nate Colbert, American baseball player
- 1964 –Margaret Peterson Haddix, American author
- 1974 –Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress
- 1984 –Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
- 1986 –Leighton Meester, American singer and actress
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