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Events on October 9

• 1524 Martin Luther gives up his life as a monk of the Augustinian Hermits.
• 1806 After an ultimatum expires, Prussia declares war on France. The War of the Fourth Coalition begins.
• 1870 With the arrival of the dispatches sent by pigeon post in besieged Paris, the Paris balloon post is established during the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1888 The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, is opened to the public 33 years after the architect's death.
• 1943 In the heaviest air raid on Hanover during the Second World War, 540 Royal Air Force aircraft drop a total of around 260,000 incendiary bombs and 3,000 high-explosive bombs, destroying large parts of the city center and the Südstadt. 1,245 people die, and around a quarter of a million inhabitants are left homeless.
• 1945 Juan Perón, the Argentine Secretary of State at the Ministry of War, is forced by opponents within the military to resign and is arrested shortly afterwards.
• 1955 In Hamburg, the first public joint drawing of lottery numbers in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany takes place.
• 1967 After his capture the previous day, the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is shot dead in a schoolhouse in La Higuera, Bolivia. Later that same day, his body is recovered in the washhouse of a hospital in Vallegrande and presented to the press, producing Freddy Alborta's famous photograph.
• 1989 In Leipzig, the first major Monday demonstration, with approximately 70,000 participants, takes place, making it the second mass-supported protest event in the GDR since 1953, after the Plauen demonstration on October 7. Contrary to fears, no armed countermeasures occur.
• 2006 Google acquires YouTube for 1.65 billion. However, the business is initially to continue operating independently with the founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
• 2019 On Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, the far-right extremist Stephan B. attempts in Halle (Saale) to break into the synagogue in the Paulusviertel in order to kill people gathered there. When he fails to do so, he shoots a female passerby in front of the building and shortly afterwards a customer of a kebab takeaway.
• 2021 SC Magdeburg, the European League winners who entered via a wildcard, win 33:28 against Champions League winners FC Barcelona to claim the Super Globe, the handball Club World Championship, for the first time in the club's history.

Born on October 9

• 1852 Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner, regarded as the founder of classical organic chemistry
• 1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French officer
• 1879 Max von Laue, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1881 Victor Klemperer, German writer and literary scholar
• 1940 John Lennon, British pop singer
• 1950 Jody Williams, American teacher and human rights activist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1952 Sharon Osbourne, British television presenter
• 1962 Jorge Burruchaga, Argentine football player
• 1970 Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1990 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, German tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „9. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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