Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 9
This is a list of selected April 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Mercury Monument honoring the original seven astronauts
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Aureus minted by Septimius Severus to celebrate the legion that proclaimed him emperor
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligble |
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| 193 – Septimius Severus was proclaimed Roman Emperor. | Need to verify date: article says army proclaimed him emperor upon the death of Pertinax on 28 March |
| 1241 – A combined force of Poles and Germans attempted to halt the Mongol invasion of Europe at the Battle of Legnica near present-day Legnica, Poland. | Needs more footnotes |
| 1940 – World War II: Nazi Germany began Operation Weserübung, invading Denmark and Norway. | needs more footnotes |
| 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the Battle of Bataan on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines before beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to prison camps in the Bataan Death March. | unreferenced section, many {{cn}} tags |
| 1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes killed 181 people and injured 970 others in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. | no footnotes, kinda short |
| 1967 – The first Boeing 737 took its maiden flight, eventually becoming the most ordered and produced commercial passenger jet airliner in the world. | refimprove |
| 1989 – An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia, was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. | unreferenced section |
| 2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales, married his long-time mistress Camilla Parker Bowles. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1959 – NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven (pictured), the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
April 9: Day of National Unity in Georgia (1989); Vimy Ridge Day in Canada
- 1865 – With their supply trains destroyed by Union troops one day earlier, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House near the Appomattox Court House in Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
- 1917 – World War I: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
- 1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
- 1969 – The "Chicago Eight" pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, US.
- 1999 – President of Niger Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was shot to death by soldiers in Niamey.
- 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: Coalition forces captured Baghdad and the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square was toppled (pictured).