2006
North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
| 28 BC | The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome. | |
| 1470 | Henry VI of England is restored to the throne. | |
| 1708 | A Russian army commanded by Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya. It will go down as one of the major battles of the Great Northern War. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History] | |
| 1760 | Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting. | |
| 1779 | The Luddite riots begin in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton being installed. | |
| 1781 | Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown. | |
| 1863 | Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga after attacking Union General William Rosecrans‘ supply and communication lines all around east Tennessee. | |
| 1888 | The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public. | |
| 1914 | The Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege. | |
| 1934 | In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations. | |
| 1941 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships. | |
| 1950 | U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. | |
| 1983 | The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived and so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed. | |
| 1999 | Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” stealth reconnaissance aircraft takes place. | |
| 2006 |
North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
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Born on October 9
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| 1837 | Francis Parker, educator and founder of progressive elementary schools. | |
| 1859 | Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer who was falsely accused of giving French military secrets to foreign powers. | |
| 1873 | Charles Rudolph Walgreen, “the father of the modern drugstore.” | |
| 1879 | Max von Laue, German physicist. | |
| 1899 | Bruce Catton, U.S. historian and journalist, famous for his works on the Civil War. | |
| 1909 | Jacques Tati, French actor and director. | |
| 1940 | John Lennon, musician, singer, songwriter; one of the Beatles (“Imagine,” “Give Peace a Chance”). | |
| 1941 | Brian Lamb, journalist, founder of the C-SPAN cable network. | |
| 1941 | Trent Lott, politician, Republican Senate Majority Whip (1995-96), Senate Majority Leader (1996–2001) and Minority Leader (2001-02); resigned during controversy over making remarks that praised Strom Thurmond‘s 1948 presidential campaign that had called for preservation of racial segregation. | |
| 1948 | Jackson Browne, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (“Running on Empty,” “Take It Easy”). | |
| 1974 | Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, writer, radio host; prominent figure in Modern Orthodox Judaism. | |
| 1979 | Chris O’Dowd, comedian, actor (The IT Crowd and Family Tree TV series, Bridesmaids). | |
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