October 09 Holidays & National Days & Fun Days | October 09 Calendar
October 9th Daily Holidays include:
- Columbus Day – October 9, 2023 (Second Monday in October)
- Curious Events Day
- Fire Prevention Day
- Indigenous People’s Day – October 9, 2023 (State Holiday in some U.S. States)
- International Beer and Pizza Day
- Leif Erikson Day
- Moldy Cheese Day
- National Kick Butt Day – October 9, 2023 (Second Monday in October)
- National Nanotechnology Day – October 9, 2023 (On or around October 9)
- National Online Banking Day – October 9, 2023 (Second Monday in October)
- National Pro-Life Cupcake Day
- National Sneakers Day
- Native American Day’s (South Dakota) – October 9, 2023 (Second Monday in October)
- Nautilus Night (Cephalopods)
- Scrubs Day
- Submarine Hoagie Hero Grinder Day
- World Post Day
October 09: Famous Birthdays
- October 09, 1940 – John Lennon, English singer, songwriter, producer and member of The Beatles (d. 1980)
- October 09, 1941 – Trent Lott, American politician (Rep-R-MS, 1973-1989, Senator-R-MS 1989-2007), born in Grenada, Mississippi
- October 09, 1942 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2012)
- October 09, 1943 – James Robison, American televangelist (Life Outreach International.), and writer, born in Pasadena, Texas
- October 09, 1943 – Mike Peters, American cartoonist (Mother Goose and Grimm), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- October 09, 1943 – Tony Tribe [Anthony Mossop], Jamaican-British reggae singer (“Red, Red Wine”), born in Kingston, Jamaica
- October 09, 1944 – John Entwistle, English rock bass guitarist and vocalist (The Who – “Boris The Spider”), born in London, England (d. 2002)
- October 09, 1944 – Nona Hendryx, American R&B singer-songwriter (Patti LaBelle & Blue Belles; LaBelle – “Lady Marmalade”), born in Trenton, New Jersey
- October 09, 1945 – Naftali Bon, Kenyan 4x400m runner (Olympic silver 1968), born in Kapsabet, Rift Valley Province, Kenya
- October 09, 1945 – Taiguara [Chalar da Silva], Brazilian singer and songwriter, born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1996)
- October 09, 1947 – Isabelle “France” Gall, French pop singer (Donner Pour Donner, Sacré Charlemagne), born in Paris, France (d. 2018)
- October 09, 1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster and journalist, born in Tampa, Florida
- October 09, 1948 – Jackson Browne, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Running on Empty)
October 09: Historical Events
- October 09, 1410 – The Prague astronomical clock is mentioned for the first time
- October 09, 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea
- October 09, 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in Old Saybrook. It would later be renamed Yale University.
- October 09, 1790 – An earthquake that hits in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea that kills three thousand people
- October 09, 1799 – The HMS Lutine sinks with a loss of 240 men aboard and a cargo worth of 1,200,000 pounds
- October 09, 1804 – Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, Australia is founded
- October 09, 1834 – The first public railway, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway opens on the island of Ireland
- October 09, 1873 – The U.S. Naval Institute is established
- October 09, 1900 – The Cook Islands becomes a territory of the United Kingdom
- October 09, 1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire while in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
- October 09, 1936 – Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam) starts to generate electricity for Los Angelese
- October 09, 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm
- October 09, 1963 – A large landslide in Italy causes a giant wave to spill over the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000 people
- October 09, 2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test
October 09: Music Events
- October 09, 1976 – A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band is #1 on the Hot 100
- October 09, 1979 – Babe is released by Styx (video below)
- October 09, 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera opens at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London
- October 09, 2007 – Noel is a Christmas album that is released by Josh Groban that becomes the top selling album of 2007
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