Saturday, June 9, 2012

June 9th in History



1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.

1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.

1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.


1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.

1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen." 

1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II. 

1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. 

1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. 

1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo. 

Famous Birthdays:

1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman emperor 

1672 - Peter the Great (Peter I of Russia) 

1791 - John Howard Payne, Actor, poet, playwright

1908 - Louis Kutner, Human rights activist, lawyer, helped to found Amnesty International 

1961 - Michael J. Fox, Actor

1981 - Natalie Portman, Actres

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