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The 9t o Aprile is the 99t day o the year (100t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 266 days ti come.
Events
2003: Faw o a statue o Saddam Hussein in Baghdad
- 1241 - The Mongols defeat a German an Pols airmy at the Battle o Legnica.
- 1865 - American Ceevil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders tae Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.
- 1867 - The Unitit States Senate approves the purchase o Alaska frae Roushie.
- 1917 - Warld War I: The Battle o Arras stairts.
- 1940 - Warld War II: Nazi Germany invades Denmark an Norawa.
- 1945 - In Nazi Germany, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executit.
- 1947 - Tornadoes kill 181 fowk in Texas, Oklahoma an Kansas.
- 1963 - Winston Churchill becomes an honorar ceetizen o the Unitit States.
- 1989 - A crackdown on protesters in Tbilisi, Georgie, kills at least 20 fowk.
- 1991 - Georgie gains unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
- 1992 - The Conservative Pairty unner John Major surprisingly wins the Unitit Kinrick General Election.
- 2002 - Funeral o Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mither o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 2003 - Iraq War: Faw o Baghdad.
- 2005 - Charles, Prince o Wales marries Camilla, Duchess o Cornwall.
- 2017 - Bombins at Coptic kirks in Tanta an Alexandria, Egyp, kill 45 fowk on Paum Sunday.
- 2019 - Israel haulds its 2019 general election, wi Benjamin Netanyahu runnin for a record fift term in affice as Prime meenister.
Births
Kristen Stewart
- 1283 - Margaret, Maid o Norawa (d. 1290)
- 1336 - Timur, Turco-Mongol conqueror an ruler (d. 1405)
- 1802 - Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physeecian an folklorist (d. 1884)
- 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
- 1835 - Leopold II o Belgium (d. 1909)
- 1865 - Erich Ludendorff, German general an politeecian (d. 1937)
- 1903 - Marion Ross, Scots physicist (d. 1994)
- 1926 - Hugh Hefner, American publisher (d. 2017)
- 1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, Breetish politeecian
- 1954 - Dennis Quaid, American actor
- 1959 - Bernard Jenkin, Inglish politeecian
- 1974 - Alexander Pichushkin, Roushie serial killer
- 1986 - Leighton Meester, American actress an sangster
- 1987 - Jesse McCartney, American actor, sangster an sangwriter
- 1990 - Kristen Stewart, American actress
Daiths
Halidays
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