History Events on June 09

World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.

#World_War_II

First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.

#Broad_Peak

The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

#USS_George_Washington_(SSBN-598)

American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.

#American_Civil_War

British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.

#Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.

#Black_Hills

Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.

#2008_Beni_Amrane_bombings

The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguy?n Cao K?.

#South_Vietnam

The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.

#Simon_de_Colines

Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.

#Six-Day_War

Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.

#Duccio

James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.

#James_Oglethorpe

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.

#William_Jennings_Bryan

Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

#Nero

American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.

#Battle_of_Brandy_Station

Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.

#Jacques_Cartier

The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.

#Roman_emperor

At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

#Nadahan_wedding_bombing

Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

#Bulgaria

The Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.

#Flint-Worcester_tornado_outbreak_sequence

Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day Vietnam - to France.

#Treaty_of_Tientsin_(1885)

McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

#McCarthyism

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

#Lyndon_B._Johnson

Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.

#Second_Anglo-Dutch_War

The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.

#1979_Sydney_Ghost_Train_fire

The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

#Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.

#Irish_Rebellion_of_1798

World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.

#Soviet_Union

Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera.

#Birsa_Munda

Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

#Charles_Kingsford_Smith

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of ??ng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.

#Vietnam_War

Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.

#Mormon_handcart_pioneers

End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.

#Congress_of_Vienna

Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

#Kosovo_War

An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.

In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.

Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.

Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.

A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.

Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.