201 sourced historical events are currently published for October 9. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
The published October 9 chronology runs from 768 to 2025, a span of 1,257 years. It contains 201 sourced records across 59 countries and 8 event categories. These figures describe the current collection, not all events that occurred on this date.
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On October 9, 768, Charles, later known as Charlemagne, was crowned King of the Franks at Noyon. His brother Carloman was crowned separately at Soissons on the same day.
The historical date is retained without conversion to the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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The Battle of Beirut was a military engagement between the French expeditionary force that invaded Beirut and the Ottomans at Beirut. The French landed and attempted to sack Beirut; however, they suffered an ambush by the Ottomans, suffering heavy losses, including the death of the expedition commander.
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The Battle of Gorjani (Croatian: Bitka kod Gorjana; Hungarian: Diakovári csata, German: Schlacht bei Gorjani) was a battle fought on 9 October 1537 at Gorjani, a place in Slavonia between Đakovo and Valpovo, as part of the Little War in Hungary as well as the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War.
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The Battle of Vergt took place on 9 October 1562 during the first French War of Religion, between a Royalist army led by Blaise de Montluc and Huguenot rebels under Symphorien de Duras. The battle was a decisive Royalist victory, which destroyed Duras' army, and prevented him reinforcing Protestant forces in the Loire Valley led by Gaspard II de Coligny and Condé.
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The Campaign of Danture comprised a series of encounters between the Portuguese and the Kingdom of Kandy in 1594, part of the Sinhalese–Portuguese War. It is considered a turning point in the indigenous resistance to Portuguese expansion. For the first time in Sri Lanka, a Portuguese army was essentially annihilated, when they were on the verge of the total conquest of the island.
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The Battle of Moyry Pass was fought during September and October 1600 in counties Armagh and Louth, in the north of Ireland, during the Nine Years' War. It was the first significant engagement of forces following the cessation of arms agreed in the previous year between the Irish leader Hugh O'Neill and the English Crown commander, the Earl of Essex.
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Ilario Altobelli saw a new star from Verona on the evening of October 9. Other observers in Europe also recorded the object, now identified as a supernova. Johannes Kepler began his own observations eight days later.
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The Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim or Hotin War (in Turkish: Hotin Muharebesi) was a combined siege and series of battles which took place between 2 September and 9 October 1621 between a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army and an invading Ottoman Imperial army. The Commonwealth commanding officer, Grand Hetman of Lithuania Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, held the forces of Sultan Osman II at bay until the first autumn snows, and in the end died during the battle.
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The Polish–Ottoman War (1620–1621) was a conflict between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire over the control of Moldavia. It ended with the Commonwealth withdrawing its claims on Moldavia and led to the eventual demise of the Sultan Osman II. It is also known as the Khotyn War, because it was ended by the Treaty of Khotyn (9 October 1621) in the aftermath of the final Battle of Khotyn (1621).
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Battle of Bila Tserkva was an armed clash between the troops of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Crimean Khanate on October 9, 1626.
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The siege of Suceava ended on 9 October 1653 with the defeat of the Moldavian and Cossack defenders of Suceava Castle. Rival Moldavian factions fought on opposite sides, with Wallachian, Transylvanian and Polish–Lithuanian forces supporting the besiegers.
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The Battle of Komarno took place on October 9, 1672, during the Polish-Ottoman War (1672-1676). It was part of Jan III Sobieski’s autumn expedition, aimed at destruction of mounted Tatar units, which ploundered southeastern provinces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Battle of Niemirow, Crown Hetman Jan Sobieski headed towards Grodek Jagiellonski, with some 2,500-3,000 cavalry and dragoons. When his unit reached the area of Jaworow, Sobieski realized that main Crimean Tatar forces advanced towards Przemysl and then southwards to Sambir. Polish hetman decided to stop their retreat, and after a skirmish at the village of Hoszany, Tatar prisoners told the Poles that a 10,000 strong army under Noradin-Soltan camped in a valley near the town of Komarno.
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The Connecticut General Assembly authorized the Collegiate School and appointed ten clergymen as trustees. The school taught in several Connecticut towns before moving permanently to New Haven in 1716.
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The Battle of Lesnaya was fought on 9 October 1708 during the Swedish invasion of Russia in the Great Northern War. Russia was the sole remaining enemy of Sweden following the dissolution of the anti-Swedish coalition in 1706. Peter I of Russia led a flying corps (corps volant [ru]), supported by two additional divisions, to destroy a convoy under general Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt that was heading for the Swedish main army in Ukraine with reinforcements and supplies.
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The 1740 Batavia massacre (Dutch: Chinezenmoord, lit. 'Murder of the Chinese'; Indonesian: Geger Pacinan, lit. 'Chinatown tumult') was a massacre and pogrom of ethnic Chinese residents of the port city of Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies. It was carried out by Dutch soldiers of the Dutch East India Company and allied members of other Batavian ethnic groups. The violence in the city lasted from 9 October 1740, until 22 October, with minor skirmishes outside the walls continuing late into November that year.
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The siege of Kars took place in 1744 during the Ottoman–Persian War of 1743–1746. Nader Shah, ruler of Persia, laid siege to the city of Kars on 29 July 1744. The siege was unsuccessful and the Persians retreated on 9 October.
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The siege of Schweidnitz took place between August and October 1762 during the Third Silesian War, part of the wider Seven Years' War. Prussian forces under the overall command of Frederick II laid siege to the city of Schweidnitz, in an attempt to retake it from an Austrian garrison.
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On October 9, 1779, French and American forces attacked British defenses at Savannah, Georgia. The assault failed.
This was a specific assault during the siege, rather than the siege’s beginning or end.
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A committee in Westminster reported Thomas Chittenden’s re-election as governor of the Vermont Republic. Paul Spooner was returned as lieutenant governor.
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A committee in Manchester reported that Vermont Republic voters had returned Thomas Chittenden to office for an eleventh one-year term.
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Moses Robinson was chosen by the legislature after no candidate won a majority in September’s popular vote. Thomas Chittenden had received the largest share of that vote.
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A strong earthquake caused extensive damage around Oran in present-day Algeria. The resulting tsunami was observed on the coast of southeastern Spain.
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An election to the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania for the 3rd Congress were held on October 9, 1792.
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The siege of Lyon occurred on 9 August to 9 October 1793 when French Republican forces laid siege and captured the city of Lyon, which was the centre of a revolt against the French government during the War of the First Coalition.
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 9, 1798, for the 6th Congress.
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania were held on October 9, 1804 for the 9th Congress.
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The Battle of Günzburg on 9 October 1805 saw General of Division Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher's French division attempt to seize a crossing over the Danube River at Günzburg in the face of a Habsburg Austrian army led by Feldmarschall-Leutnant Karl Mack von Lieberich. Malher's division managed to capture a bridge and hold it against Austrian counterattacks. The battle occurred during the War of the Third Coalition, part of the larger Napoleonic Wars. After Mack's Austrian army invaded Bavaria, it found itself the target of a powerful offensive by the army of Emperor Napoleon I of France.
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The Battle of Schleiz took place on October 9, 1806 in Schleiz, Germany between a Prussian-Saxon division under Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien and a part of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte's I Corps under the command of Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon. It was the first clash of the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. As Emperor Napoleon I of France's Grande Armée advanced north through the Frankenwald (Franconian Forest) it struck the left wing of the armies belonging to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Electorate of Saxony, which were deployed on a long front.
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The War of the Fourth Coalition (French: Guerre de la Quatrième Coalition) was a war spanning 1806–1807 that saw a multinational coalition fight against Napoleon's French Empire, subsequently being defeated. The main coalition partners were Prussia and Russia with Saxony, Sweden, and Great Britain also contributing. Excluding Prussia, some members of the coalition had previously been fighting France as part of the Third Coalition, and there was no intervening period of general peace. On 9 October 1806, Prussia declared war on France and joined a renewed coalition, fearing the rise in French power after the defeat of Austria and establishment of the French-sponsored Confederation of the Rhine in addition to having learned of French plans to cede Prussian-desired Hanover to Britain in exchange for peace.
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania were held October 9, 1810 for the 12th Congress. The Federalists were in decline in Pennsylvania at this time. In six of the eleven districts there were no Federalist candidates.
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The 1810 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1810, in order to elect the Governor of Ohio. Democratic-Republican candidate and incumbent United States Senator Return J. Meigs Jr. defeated fellow Democratic-Republican candidate and former United States Senator Thomas Worthington.
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The capture of HMS Caledonia and HMS Detroit was an action which took place during the War of 1812. On October 9, 1812, 100 American sailors and soldiers crossed the Niagara River to capture two British vessels anchored near Fort Erie. The Americans stormed the decks and successfully captured the ships and their cargo.
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The October 9 Revolution was a successful revolt against the Spanish Empire in Guayaquil on October 9, 1820. It was led by the General Antonio José de Sucre and directed by Simón Bolívar. The revolt established a revolutionary junta and created the Free Province of Guayaquil, an independent state. The independence of Guayaquil revived the war of independence of the Real Audiencia de Quito as part of the Spanish American wars of independence.
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Guayaquil broke with Spanish rule and began a period of self-government. Representatives from the province gathered in November to adopt rules for the new government.
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On October 9, 1831, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece, was fatally attacked as he entered the Church of Agios Spyridon in Nafplio.
The date is also recorded as September 27 in the Julian calendar.
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The 1832 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1832. Incumbent Democratic Governor Duncan McArthur did not run for re-election, instead running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic nominee Robert Lucas defeated Anti-Masonic nominee Darius Lyman.
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The 1832 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 9, 1832. Incumbent Governor George Wolf, a Democrat, defeated Anti-Masonic candidate Joseph Ritner to win re-election.
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A train carrying invited passengers traveled from Westland Row to the Kingstown area. Ireland’s first public railway began regular passenger service in December.
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The 1838 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1838. Incumbent Whig Governor Joseph Vance was defeated by Democratic nominee, former prosecuting attorney for Belmont County, Wilson Shannon.
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The 1838 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was a statewide contest for the office of Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. Incumbent Governor Joseph Ritner, who was the last governor to serve under Pennsylvania's Constitution of 1790, ran as an Anti-Masonic candidate. He was defeated by Jacksonian Democrat David R. Porter by less than 5,500 votes, following a divisive campaign marred by rising public prejudice against Freemasonry and a disinformation campaign that distributed biographical booklets with inaccurate information about Porter.
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The 1844 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 9, 1844. Incumbent Democratic governor David R. Porter was not a candidate for re-election. Democratic candidate Francis R. Shunk defeated Whig candidate Joseph Markle to become Governor of Pennsylvania. This was the last time until 2022 that Democrats won more than two gubernatorial elections in a row in Pennsylvania.
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On October 8 and 9, 1846, Californio forces repelled U.S. troops at Dominguez Rancho in Alta California during the Mexican–American War.
The battle spanned October 8 and 9. The site is in present-day California, United States.
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On October 9, 1847, U.S. and Mexican forces fought at Huamantla in Mexico during the Mexican–American War. The battle ended in a U.S. victory.
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The 1855 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1855. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Ohio William Medill became Governor after the resignation of Reuben Wood to accept a consulship, and Lt. Governor Medill became elected in his own right in 1853. The 1855 election was one of the first major tests of the fledgling Republican Party, then still a coalition of various anti-slavery forces, including former rival Democrats and Whig members. This election led them to quickly dominate Ohio politics for the next half-century. The election is also unique in that it was a contest of three Governors, past, present, and future.
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The 1860 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1860. Republican nominee Henry S. Lane defeated Democratic nominee Thomas A. Hendricks with 51.89% of the vote.
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The 1860 Pennsylvania gubernatorial was held on October 9, almost one month before Presidential election. Andrew Curtin of the newly formed Republican Party won the governor's mansion over Democrat Henry Donnel Foster. Curtin would go on to become an important figure in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States. Pennsylvania's 15th governor and a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln, he was inaugurated on January 15, 1861.
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The Battle of Santa Rosa Island (October 9, 1861) was an unsuccessful Confederate attempt to take Union-held Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.
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On October 9, 1864, Union cavalry defeated Confederate cavalry near Tom’s Brook in Virginia during the American Civil War.
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The Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866 occurred on October 9, 1866. Incumbent governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, a Republican, was not candidate for re-election. Republican candidate John W. Geary defeated Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer to become Governor of Pennsylvania.
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The Southern Colorado Agricultural and Industrial Association held the first Colorado State Fair in Pueblo. The fair began before Colorado became a state.
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On October 9, 1873, the United States Naval Institute was founded at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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The Treaty of Bern (formally the Treaty concerning the formation of a General Postal Union), signed on 9 October 1874, established the General Postal Union, which is today known as the Universal Postal Union. Named for the Swiss city of Bern, where it was signed, the treaty was the result of an international conference convened by the Swiss Government on 15 September 1874.
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On October 9, 1874, the Treaty of Bern was signed in Switzerland, establishing the General Postal Union, later renamed the Universal Postal Union.
The treaty entered into force on July 1, 1875.
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In the 1877 Iowa State Senate elections, Iowa voters elected state senators to serve in the seventeenth Iowa General Assembly. Elections were held in 24 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate. The general election took place on October 9, 1877. Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 40 seats to Democrats' 10 seats.
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The 1877 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1877. Democratic nominee Richard M. Bishop defeated Republican nominee William H. West with 48.94% of the vote.
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The 1877 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1877. Republican nominee John H. Gear defeated Democratic nominee John P. Irish with 49.39% of the vote.
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The Battles for Plav and Gusinje were armed conflicts between the Principality of Montenegro and the League of Prizren (supported by the Ottoman Empire) that broke out following the decision of the Congress of Berlin (1878) that the territories of Plav and Gusinje (part of former Scutari Vilayet) be ceded to Montenegro. The conflicts took place in this territory between 9 October 1879 and 22 April 1880.
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The 1883 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1883. Democratic nominee George Hoadly defeated Republican nominee Joseph B. Foraker with 49.87% of the vote.
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The 1883 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on October 9, 1883. Incumbent Republican Buren R. Sherman defeated Democratic nominee L. G. Kinne with 50.15% of the vote.
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In the 1883 Iowa State Senate elections Iowa voters elected state senators to serve in the twentieth Iowa General Assembly. Elections were held in 29 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate. The general election took place on October 9, 1883. Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 45 seats to Democrats' two seats, two Greenbackers, and one Independent.
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On October 9, 1888, the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., officially opened to the public.
The monument’s dedication ceremony had been held in 1885.
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The Battle of Chiayi (9 October 1895) was an important engagement fought during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895). The battle was a Japanese victory.
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The Battle of Debra Ailà (Debre Ailat) took place during the First Italo-Ethiopian War on October 9, 1895, where under the combined efforts of Italian colonial troops and Askari troops defeated the rearguard of the Tigrayan army, which had withdrawn from Tigray's capital Mek'ele.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 2 and 9 October 1901. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 277 of the 413 seats.
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On October 9, 1914, German troops entered Antwerp, Belgium, after most of the defending field army had withdrawn.
The remaining fortress troops’ surrender was completed on October 10.
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The Second Battle of Jaunde involved the successful British and French assault on the German capital of Jaunde during the Kamerun campaign of the First World War. After the failure of the First Battle of Jaunde during the summer of 1915, the bulk of Allied forces had retreated to the Kele river. Following the Second Duala Conference where Allied commanders discussed the situation, it was decided that another assault should be attempted.
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The Battle of Brassó was the last major military engagement during the Battle of Transylvania. It took place between 7 and 9 October 1916, between Central Powers forces (Germany and Austria-Hungary) on one side and Romanian forces on the other side. As Brassó was the second largest city in Transylvania and the largest Transylvanian settlement taken by the Romanians during their August-September offensive in the region, the retreating Romanian forces decided to make a stand there.
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The Battle of Poelcappelle was fought in Flanders on 9 October 1917 by the British and German armies, during the First World War and marked the end of the string of highly successful British attacks in late September and early October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres. Only the supporting attack in the north achieved a substantial advance. On the main front the German defences withstood the limited amount of artillery fire managed by the British after the attack of 4 October. The ground along the main ridges had been severely damaged by shelling and rapidly deteriorated in the rains, which began again on 3 October, turning some areas into a swamp.
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Syzran-Samara operation (September 14 - October 9, 1918) was the Red Army's offensive against the People's Army of Komuch during the Russian Civil War.
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Finland’s Parliament elected Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse as king. He declined the crown before taking office, and Finland went on to become a republic.
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Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 9 October 1920 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was re-elected to its third term in office, having been in power since the 1915 election. It was Ted Theodore's first election as premier, following his election in 1919 to succeed T. J. Ryan as Labor leader.
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The Battle of Sapotillal, or the Battle of Zapotillal or Zapotillo Ridge, took place on October 9, 1927 during the American occupation of Nicaragua of 1926–1933 and the Sandino Rebellion. The battle was an unsuccessful attempt by American and Nicaraguan government forces to rescue two downed American airmen.
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On October 9, 1934, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was assassinated during a visit to Marseille, France. French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou also died in the incident.
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The Zhengding Missionary Murder is an incident in which nine Catholic priests were kidnapped and killed in Zhengding, Hebei province, Republic-era China on October 9, 1937.
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The United Australia Party (UAP) held a leadership election on 9 October 1941, following the resignation of Robert Menzies on the same day. Billy Hughes was elected as his replacement. Menzies had become UAP leader (and thus prime minister) in 1939, following the death of Joseph Lyons. The UAP-Country Coalition lost its slender majority at the 1940 election, and depended on the votes of two independents to stay in office.
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The Mačva operation or Cleaning Up the Sava Crescent (Serbian: Чишћење лука Саве, German: Säuberung des Save-Bogens) was a German military operation during the uprising in the German-occupied territory of Serbia. This operation was in some contemporary German documents and in some works was referred to as operation Cleansing of Mačva.
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The siege of Kraljevo was the most important battle during the uprising in Serbia in 1941. The siege lasted from 9 to 31 October 1941. The battle was waged between besieging forces of the Chetniks and Yugoslav Partisans against German forces garrisoned in Kraljevo in the German-occupied territory of Serbia (modern-day Serbia). The rebel forces had between 3,000 and 4,000 soldiers.
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From 6 to 9 October 1942, U.S. forces fought Japanese forces around the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal and won the October action.
This entry records the end date of the October action. The separate September engagement is outside this entry’s scope.
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On October 9, 1942, Australia’s Statute of Westminster Adoption Act received royal assent. The law took effect retrospectively from 1939.
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On October 9, 1943, resistance fighters launched attacks against Japanese forces in the Jesselton area of North Borneo, beginning the Jesselton revolt.
Jesselton is now Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia.
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On October 9, 1943, the German rearguard withdrew from the Taman Peninsula, completing the evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead to Crimea.
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Operation Loyton was the codename given to a Special Air Service (SAS) mission in the Vosges department of France during the Second World War. The mission, between 12 August and 9 October 1944, had the misfortune to be parachuted into the Vosges Mountains, at a time when the German Army was reinforcing the area, against General George Patton's Third Army. As a result, the Germans quickly became aware of their presence and conducted operations to destroy the SAS team. With their supplies running out and under pressure from the German army, the SAS were ordered to form smaller groups to return to Allied lines.
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The Courland Pocket was a pocket located on the Courland Peninsula in Latvia on the Eastern Front of World War II from 9 October 1944 to 22 May 1945. The last battle with a regular German army unit took place here on May 22, 1945.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 October 1949. About 500,000 registered Nazis, who were not allowed to vote in 1945, regained their voting rights. A newly created party, the Electoral Party of Independents (WdU) (a predecessor of the Freedom Party of Austria) specifically targeted this group of voters and immediately won a large share of votes.
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The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre (Korean: 고양 금정굴 민간인 학살; Hanja: 高陽衿井窟民間人虐殺; lit. 'Goyang Geunjeong Cave civilian massacre') was a war crime of 153 unarmed civilians conducted between 9 October 1950 and 31 October 1950 by police at the site of a former gold mine in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do district of South Korea.
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The French military garrison withdrew from Hanoi as Viet Minh forces took control of the city. The handover followed the 1954 Geneva settlement.
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On 9 October 1956, Lu Hsiao-fen, an actor, was born.
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On 9 October 1957, Stanley Kwan, a film director, was born.
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On October 9, 1962, Uganda gained independence from the United Kingdom.
Uganda became a republic in 1963, a separate milestone.
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A massive landslide from Mount Toc plunged into the Vajont reservoir. The resulting wave overtopped the dam and devastated downstream communities, including Longarone.
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On October 9, 1965, voters in Porirua, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1965, voters in Christchurch, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1965, voters in Invercargill, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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The 1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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On October 9, 1965, voters in Dunedin, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1965, voters in Auckland, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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The Bình Tai Massacre was a massacre allegedly perpetrated by South Korean forces on 9 October 1966 of 29–168 civilians in Bình Tai village of Bình Định Province in South Vietnam.
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On October 9, 1967, Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian soldiers after being held in a schoolhouse in La Higuera.
He had been captured the previous day.
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On 9 October 1968, the Royal Navy submarine HMS Warspite and the Soviet submarine K-131 collided in the Barents Sea off the Kola Peninsula.
The collision date is recorded; the exact time remains disputed.
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The Khmer Republic (Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ, Sathearonaroat Khmae; French: République khmère) was a Cambodian state under the United States-backed military dictatorship of Marshal Lon Nol from 1970 to 1975. Its establishment was formally declared on 9 October 1970, following the 18 March 1970 coup d'état which led to the overthrow of Norodom Sihanouk's government and the subsequent abolition of the federalist Cambodian monarchy in favour of a centralised republic.
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On October 9, 1971, voters in Christchurch, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1971, voters in Auckland, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1971, voters in Porirua, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1971, voters in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1971, voters in Dunedin, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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On October 9, 1971, voters in Invercargill, New Zealand, went to the polls to elect a mayor.
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The 1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid was an aerial strike carried out by the Israeli Air Force on October 9, 1973, the fourth day of the Yom Kippur War. Following a strike by Syrian surface-to-surface missiles against settlements and installations in northern Israel, seven F-4 Phantom IIs from 119 Squadron attacked the Syrian General Staff Headquarters (GHQ) and adjacent buildings in downtown Damascus.
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The Valley of Tears (Hebrew: עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא, Emek HaBakha) is the name given to an area in the Golan Heights after it became the site of a major battle in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, known as the Valley (or Vale) of Tears Battle, which was fought from 6 October to 9 October.
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The 1977 NSL Cup final was the first NSL Cup Final, the final match of the 1977 NSL Cup. It was played at Perry Park in Brisbane, Australia, on 9 October 1977, contested by Brisbane City and Marconi-Fairfield.
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The 1977 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Semple Stadium, Thurles on 9 October 1977 to determine the winners of the 1977 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 14th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland.
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The Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War (Swahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, was fought between Uganda and Tanzania from October 1978 until June 1979 and led to the overthrow of Ugandan President Idi Amin. The war was preceded by a deterioration of relations between Uganda and Tanzania following Amin's 1971 overthrow of President Milton Obote, who was close to the President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere.
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The Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983 was an assassination attempt orchestrated by North Korea against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma. Although Chun survived, 21 people died in the attack and 46 were injured. One suspect was later killed, and the two other suspected bombers were captured, one of whom confessed to being a North Korean military officer.
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On October 9, 1984, the children’s television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends premiered on Britain’s ITV network.
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Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC (stylized in all caps as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network serving as the flagship namesake property of Fox Corporation and operated through Fox Entertainment. The channel was launched by News Corporation on October 9, 1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, which are the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
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On October 9, 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera officially opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End.
Previews had begun on September 27.
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The 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 101st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
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The siege of Slunj was an armed conflict in the territory of the municipality of Slunj in 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence. It was fought between the Croatian Army (HV) on one side, and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) on the other. It was the largest Croatian enclave that was separated from the rest of Croatia during the conflict.
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A fireball streaked across the eastern United States before a meteorite hit a parked car in Peekskill, New York. Videos captured along its route helped researchers reconstruct its trajectory.
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Local elections were held in Belgium on 9 October 1994. The ten provincial councils as well as all municipal councils were elected. The election was, apart from the European election in June that year, the first one since the fourth state reform, which made provincial elections concurrent with municipal elections rather than with parliamentary elections. Legislative terms for provincial councils were thus increased from four years or less to six years. Additionally, the reform split the province of Brabant into Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant, thus increasing the number of provinces from nine to ten.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 9 October 1994. The Social Democratic Party won the most seats, and retained the grand coalition with the Austrian People's Party. Voter turnout was 81.9%.
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The 1995 Palo Verde derailment took place on October 9, 1995, when Amtrak's Sunset Limited was derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona on Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve cars derailed, four of them falling 30 feet (9 m) off a trestle bridge into a dry river bed. Mitchell Bates, a sleeping car attendant, was killed.
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One team in Tallinn refers to a football match scheduled for 9 October 1996 in World Cup qualifying European Group 4 between the national teams of Estonia and Scotland. The match was abandoned after three seconds because the Estonian team were absent from the Kadrioru Stadium due to a dispute over its floodlights. Scotland expected to be awarded a walkover victory, but FIFA ordered that the match be replayed on neutral territory.
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The Falkland Islands general election of 1997 was held on Thursday 9 October 1997 to elect members to the Legislative Council. Eight Councillors were elected through universal suffrage using block voting, five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency. It was the first election to take place after a constitutional amendment came into force, which redistributed the representation in the constituencies, giving an additional seat to Stanley and removing one from Camp. The amendment also modified voter eligibility.
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On 9 October 1999, a football match took place between Russia and Ukraine in Moscow at Luzhniki Stadium. It was the final match for both nations in group 4 in the qualifying tournament for UEFA Euro 2000.
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On October 9, 2000, RINGS held the first event of its King of Kings 2000 tournament at Yoyogi National Stadium’s second gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
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Do Judge!! was a major professional wrestling television special event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on October 9, 2000, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It marked the first major cross promotional matches between New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) after the two had entered into a working relationship in August.
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On October 9, 2001, Raleigh, North Carolina, held the first round of its mayoral election.
The runoff took place on November 6.
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An election to the office of President of Afghanistan was held on October 9, 2004. Hamid Karzai won the election with 55.4% of the votes and three times more votes than any other candidate. Twelve candidates received less than 1% of the vote. It is estimated that more than three-quarters of Afghanistan's nearly 12 million registered voters cast ballots. The election was overseen by the Joint Electoral Management Body, chaired by Zakim Shah and vice-chaired by Ray Kennedy, an American working for the United Nations.
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Triennial elections for all 74 cities, districts, twelve regional councils and all district health boards in New Zealand were held on 9 October 2004. Most councils were elected using the first-past-the-post method, but ten (of which Wellington City was the largest) were elected using the single transferable vote method.
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Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and coalition partner the National Party of Australia led by John Anderson defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Mark Latham.
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The 2004 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 9 October 2004 and it was the Howard government's opportunity to secure its fourth term of government. The Government consisting of the conservative coalition Liberal Party and National Party headed by John Howard and John Anderson respectively were opposed by Mark Latham and the Labor Party. The Howard government would be returned for its fourth term, seeing major gains nationwide.
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The 2004 Wellington mayoral election was part of the 2004 New Zealand local elections. On 9 October 2004, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Kerry Prendergast was re-elected for a second term as mayor of Wellington. This was the first Wellington mayoral election to be held under the Instant runoff voting system.
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The 2004 Invercargill mayoral election commenced on Saturday, 9 October 2004 and was conducted under the First Past the Post system using the postal voting system. It was held as part of the 2004 New Zealand local elections. The incumbent mayor Tim Shadbolt was comfortably returned to his position with 84% of the vote.
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On October 9, 2004, voting concluded in the mayoral election in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
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On October 9, 2004, voting concluded in the election for Hutt City Council in New Zealand.
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On October 9, 2004, voting concluded in the mayoral election in Porirua, New Zealand.
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On October 9, 2004, voting concluded in the mayoral election in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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On October 9, 2004, Australian voters went to the polls to fill 40 seats in the Senate as part of the federal election.
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The 2004 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the 2004 New Zealand local elections. On 9 October of that year, elections were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government roles. Incumbent Garry Moore successfully contested a third term in office with a decisive majority. The second-placed candidate, Aaron Keown, received almost 50,000 fewer votes than Moore.
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On October 9, 2004, voting concluded in the election for Wellington City Council in New Zealand.
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No Mercy (2005) was the eighth annual No Mercy professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The event, presented by Sony's PlayStation 2, took place on October 9, 2005, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and featured wrestlers and other talent from WWE's SmackDown! brand. Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card. The event is memorable for being Eddie Guerrero's final pay-per-view appearance before his death on November 13. Three of the four championships exclusive to the SmackDown! brand were contested for; one was lost while the other two were retained.
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The Burgenland state election of 2005 was held in the Austrian state of Burgenland on 9 October 2005. The SPÖ won the election in a landslide victory. State governor since 2000, Hans Niessl, Burgenland SPÖ chairman, won another term as state governor.
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Local elections were held in Portugal on 9 October 2005. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country.
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The 2005 Lisbon local election was held on 9 October 2005 to elect the members of the Lisbon City Council. Carmona Rodrigues, who was mayor during Santana Lopes' short period as prime minister from 2004 to 2005, was elected for a full term with 42% of the votes, defeating Manuel Maria Carrilho, from the Socialist Party, who achieved only about 27% of the votes.
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Presidential elections were held in Poland on 9 October and 23 October 2005. The outgoing President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, had served the two five-year terms allowed under the constitution and was unable to stand for a third term. Lech Kaczyński defeated Donald Tusk to become President of Poland. The election took place just a month after Kaczyński's Law and Justice party also defeated Tusk's Civic Platform in the parliamentary elections.
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China's surveying authority announced a new estimate of Mount Everest's rock height, giving 8,844.43 metres from its 2005 survey.
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North Korea announced an underground nuclear test after a seismic event was detected near its Punggye-ri test site.
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Google announced an agreement to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal closed in November.
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A presidential election was held in Ethiopia on October 9, 2007, in which the Ethiopian Parliament re-elected Girma Woldegiorgis for a second six-year term. He was first elected by the upper house, the House of Federation, before being elected by the lower house, the House of People's Representatives, with 430 votes in favor, 88 against, and 11 abstaining.
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On October 9, 2007, Birmingham, Alabama, held an election for mayor.
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The Raleigh mayoral election of 2007 was held on 9 October 2007 to elect a Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was won by Democratic incumbent Charles Meeker, who was unopposed.
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The 2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election was held on October 9, 2007, to elect members of the 46th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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On 9 October 2007, shareholders approved the merger plan for the MTR Corporation and Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation; the merger took place in December.
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The 121st International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session was held on 1–9 October 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, during which Rio de Janeiro was selected as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The city of Copenhagen was chosen on 8 February 2006 by the 118th IOC Session held in Turin, Italy to stage the 13th Olympic Congress, together with the meetings of the Executive Board and the 121st IOC Session.
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The Wellington local elections, 2010 are part of the New Zealand local elections, 2010, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards. The Wellington elections cover one regional council (the Greater Wellington Regional Council), eight territorial authority (city and district) councils, three district health boards, and various local boards and licensing trusts. As per the Local Electoral Act 2001, all the elections will occur on Saturday 9 October 2010. Voting is carried out by postal ballot, using one of two voting systems: Single Transferrable Vote for the district health boards and three of the territorial authority councils, and First Past The Post for the remaining territorial authority councils, the regional council, and all the local boards and trusts.
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The Dunedin mayoral election, 2010 occurred on Saturday, 9 October 2010 and was conducted under the Single Transferable Voting system. The candidates for mayor included Peter Chin, the incumbent who contested for a third consecutive term. He faced six other candidates. Of these, three stood in the 2007 mayoral race (former councillor Lee Vandervis, who came second, Olivier Lequeux, who came fifth, and Jimmy Knowles, who finished last). Other candidates include incumbent city councillor Dave Cull, Aaron Hawkins and Kevin Dwyer. Dave Cull won the mayoral election becoming Dunedin's 57th mayor.
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The 2010 Rangitikei local elections were held across the Rangitikei District of Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, for the offices of Mayor of Rangitikei and eleven members of the Rangitikei District Council on 9 October 2010. They were held as part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections. Postal ballots were issued to 10,068 registered voters, and were returned from 17 September to 9 October. Across the district, 3,619 people cast votes, a voter turnout of 47%. Chalky Leary was re-elected as mayor unopposed, becoming the first mayor in 21 years to be re-elected without a challenge.
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The Christchurch mayoral election, 2010 is part of the New Zealand local elections, 2010. On 9 October 2010, elections were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government roles. Incumbent Bob Parker was re-elected.
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The Dunedin local elections, 2010 were part of the New Zealand local elections, 2010, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards. The Dunedin elections are used to elect the Mayor of Dunedin and to elect councilors to the Dunedin City Council As per the Local Electoral Act 2001, all the elections occurred on Saturday 9 October 2010. Voting was carried out by postal ballot, using the Single Transferrable Vote system.
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The 2010 Wellington mayoral election is part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections. On 9 October 2010, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Sitting Green Party councillor Celia Wade-Brown defeated incumbent mayor Kerry Prendergast and four other candidates.
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Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II, was a mixed martial arts event held by Strikeforce on October 9, 2010 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, United States. The event aired live on the Showtime cable network.
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The 2010 Invercargill mayoral election finished on Saturday, 9 October 2010 and was conducted under the First Past the Post system using the postal voting system. It was held as part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections.
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The 2010 Auckland mayoral election was part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections. It was the first election of a mayor for the enlarged Auckland Council, informally known as the "super-city". The election was won by sitting mayor of Manukau City Len Brown with 49.24% votes, over sitting mayor of Auckland City John Banks with 35.57% and first-time candidate Colin Craig with 8.83%. The sitting mayor of North Shore City Andrew Williams polled fourth and actor/director Simon Prast fifth. The election occurred on Saturday 9 October 2010, as per the Local Electoral Act 2001.
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A by-election for the seat of Araluen in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was held on 9 October 2010. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Country Liberal Party (CLP) member Jodeen Carney on 3 September 2010 due to ill health. The seat has been held by the CLP since the seat's creation in 1983.
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On October 9, 2010, voting concluded in the mayoral election in Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
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Chile's first Maquinaria Festival took place at Club Hípico in Santiago. The lineup included Pixies, Incubus, Linkin Park and Queens of the Stone Age.
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Héroes Inmortales (2011) (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes") was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion, which took place on October 9, 2011, at Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of AAA founder Antonio Peña. While the two previous Peña memorial shows were labeled with the Roman numerals III and IV, the 2011 event was simply known as Héroes Inmortales. The main attraction of the event was the Mexican debut of Sting, who took part in the ongoing storyline invasion of wrestlers from American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
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A parliamentary election to both the Senate and the Sejm (lower house) was held in Poland on 9 October 2011. The previous election, in 2007, resulted in a Civic Platform–Polish People's Party government. All seats of both Houses were up for re-election. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (PO) won a plurality of seats and Tusk became the first Polish prime minister to be appointed for a second consecutive term since the fall of communism. Both the Civic Platform and its junior partner, the Polish People's Party (PSL), agreed to continue their governing coalition after the election.
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Presidential elections were held in Cameroon on 9 October 2011. Incumbent President Paul Biya stood for another term after a constitutional amendment passed in 2008 eliminated term limits. Biya was re-elected with 78% of the vote.
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A regional election was held in Madeira on 9 October 2011, to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. In the election, the Social Democratic Party, led by Alberto João Jardim, who has been in power since 1978, archived, once again, an absolute majority. The campaign for the regional legislative election in Madeira ran from 25 September to 7 October 2011.
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Shanghai's China Pavilion closed its extended exhibition after Expo 2010. The building later became the China Art Museum.
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On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman shot education activist Malala Yousafzai as she traveled home on a bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. She survived the attack.
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UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields (also known as UFC Fight Night 29) was a mixed martial arts event held on October 9, 2013 at the Ginásio José Corrêa in Barueri, Brazil. The event was broadcast live on Fox Sports 1.
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Presidential elections were held in Azerbaijan on 9 October 2013. The result was a victory for incumbent President Ilham Aliyev, who received a reported 85% of the vote, whilst leading opposition candidate Jamil Hasanli finished second with a reported 6% of the vote. The elections were marred by claims of irregularities; official results were accidentally released by the government's Central Election Commission through a mobile app before voting began, giving Aliyev a victory with 73% of the vote.
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The Clacton by-election was held on 9 October 2014 for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of Clacton. The by-election was triggered by the Conservative MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell, defecting to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and subsequently resigning his seat to seek re-election as its candidate. Standing for UKIP, Carswell retained the seat with 59.7% of the vote, becoming UKIP's first elected MP. The Conservatives came second, and Labour third. According to John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, the result was the biggest increase in the share of a vote for any party in any by-election in history.
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The Heywood and Middleton by-election was on 9 October 2014 in the Heywood and Middleton constituency following the death of its MP Jim Dobbin on 6 September 2014. It was held on the same day as the Clacton by-election. The Labour Party narrowly held the seat following a recount. UK Independence Party (UKIP) came second, and increased its vote by 36 percentage points since the previous general election.
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On October 9, 2015, jihadists from the Khalid ibn Walid katiba of Ansar Dine attacked a Burkinabe gendarmerie outpost in Samorogouan Department, Burkina Faso. The attack was one of the first deadly attacks during the jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso.
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The 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 34th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015. The festival's opening gala film was John Crowley's Brooklyn, and its closing gala was Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light.
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No Mercy (2016) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for the SmackDown brand. It took place on October 9, 2016, at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. This was the 12th event in the No Mercy chronology and the first since 2008. Eight matches were contested at the event, including one on the pre-show. In the main event (which opened the pay-per-view), AJ Styles defeated Dean Ambrose and John Cena to retain the WWE World Championship. In another prominent match, Dolph Ziggler defeated The Miz to win the Intercontinental Championship, with his career also on the line.
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The 2016 NWSL Championship was the fourth edition of the NWSL Championship, the championship match of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), and took place on October 9, 2016. It was contested between the Washington Spirit and the Western New York Flash to decide the champion of the 2016 season. The match was played at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas.
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On October 9, 2016, armed attackers struck three border guard police posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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The 2016 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 2016 presidential election. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization formed in 1987, organized four debates among the major party candidates, sponsored three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. Only Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump met the criteria for inclusion in the debates, and thus were the only two to appear in the debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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The Lucha Libre World Cup was a two-day professional wrestling event and tournament organized by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) with the financial backing of the Grupo Modelo brewery, with Victoria Beer as the official sponsor. The tournament took place on October 9 and October 10 in Tokyo's Shin-Kiba 1st Ring and Korakuen Hall venues, marking the first time the tournament has been held outside AAA's home country of Mexico.
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The northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017 – February 2018) was a large-scale military operation that initially started with an offensive conducted by the Islamic State (IS) forces on areas controlled by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the northern Hama Governorate. Subsequently, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces launched their own offensive against HTS and other rebel groups in the area.
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The Second Battle of Ras al-Ayn occurred during the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, as part of the Rojava conflict of the Syrian Civil War. The battle was fought between Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The battle resulted in the capture of Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê by Turkish/SNA forces on 20 October, and the incorporation of the town under the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.
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The 2020 Parti Québécois leadership election was held on 9 October 2020, to replace Jean-François Lisée, who resigned on 1 October 2018 after leading the Parti Québécois to a third-place finish in the 2018 Quebec general election and failing to be re-elected in his own riding. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was elected on the third ballot with 56% of the vote.
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Lluvia and La Jarochita won the second qualifying block for the vacant Mexican National Women’s Tag Team Championship. The result set up a final against Amapola and La Metálica.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic on 8 and 9 October 2021. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected, with the leader of the resulting government to become the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
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Héroes Inmortales XIV (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes fourteen") was a professional wrestling event produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA). The event took place on October 9, 2021, at Coliseo La Concordia in Orizaba, Mexico. It was the fourteenth Héroes Inmortales show, held annually in honor of the promotion's deceased founder Antonio Peña and features the Copa Antonio Peña tournament named in his honor.
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UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Rodriguez (also known as UFC Fight Night 194, UFC Vegas 39 and UFC on ESPN+ 52) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 9, 2021 at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
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Presidential elections were held in Austria on 9 October 2022. Incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen from the Greens was eligible for one more term and ran for re-election. About 6.36 million voting-age citizens were eligible to vote. Final results showed that Van der Bellen was re-elected in the first round with 57% of the vote. Van der Bellen won in all of the 116 administrative districts of Austria.
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The 2022 Lower Saxony state election was held on 9 October 2022 to elect the 19th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) led by Minister-President Stephan Weil. The SPD remained the largest party with 33% and gained two seats, despite a decline of 3.5 percentage points.
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The 2022 Empire Women's Indoor 1 was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Trnava, Slovakia between 3 and 9 October 2022.
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The 2022 Rancho Santa Fe Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States between 3 and 9 October 2022.
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The 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 41st event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 29 to October 9, 2022. The festival opened with the Marie Clements film Bones of Crows, and closed with Hirokazu Kore-eda's film Broker. The festival scheduled 135 feature films and 102 short films overall.
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The battle of Ofakim (Hebrew: קרב אופקים; Arabic: معركة سديروت) began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on southern Israel, which was widely condemned as an act of terrorism. The Israeli city of Ofakim (Hebrew: אופקים) is a city in the Southern District of Israel, 20 kilometers (12.4 mi) west of Beersheba.
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Starting on 5 October 2023, the Turkish Armed Forces launched a series of air and ground strikes targeting the Syrian Democratic Forces in Northeastern Syria. The airstrikes were launched in response to the 2023 Ankara bombing, which the Turkish government alleges was carried out by attackers originating from Northeastern Syria.
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On 9 October 2023, Israel intensified its blockade of the Gaza Strip when it announced a "total blockade", blocking the entry of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity after the October 7 attacks and the ensuing Gaza war. The blockade has been credited with contributing significantly to the Gaza genocide. Israel has conditioned its lifting of the blockade with the return of the hostages abducted by Hamas, which has been criticized as collective punishment and an apparent war crime.
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General elections were held in Mozambique on 9 October 2024 to elect the president, the 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic and members of the ten provincial assemblies. The ruling FRELIMO party, which has increasingly become marked with growing concerns of authoritarianism and impunity amid the controversies surrounding the 2023 local elections and the 2019 general election, was declared the winner of the election, with its leader, Daniel Chapo, proclaimed as president-elect.
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Hurricane Milton was an extremely powerful and destructive tropical cyclone which caused major damage and fatalities in Florida in October 2024. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Rita for the most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico. Milton significantly impacted the west coast of the U.S. state of Florida, less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the state's Big Bend region; further exacerbating damage and hindering clean-up efforts in previously affected regions.
Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane, causing US$34.3 billion in damage only two weeks after Hurricane Helene impacted the state.
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On October 9, 2025, the 58th Sitges Film Festival opened in Sitges, Spain, with the film Alpha.
The festival ran through October 19.
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