October 9: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1446 - The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
2. 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
3. 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
4. 1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
5. 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
6. 1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
7. 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
8. 1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
9. 1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
10. 2009 - First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
11. Famous Birthdays: Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (French mathematician), Charles Walgreen (American entrepreneur), Joe Rosenthal (American photographer), John Lennon (British musician and songwriter- The Beatles), Tony Shalhoub (American actor)

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