9 Juin

The **9t o Juin** is the 160t day o the year (161t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 205 days ti come.

## Events

* 68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide.
* 1534 - Jacques Cartier reaches the Saunt Lawrence River in present-day Canadae.
* 1815 - The Congress o Vienna sets Europe's new poleetical situation.
* 1898 - Cheenae leases Hong Kong tae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1934 - Walt Disney's character Donald Duck maks his debut.
* 1946 - Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes Keeng o Thailand.
* 1957 - An Austrick expedeetion climbs the Karakoram range muntain o Broad Peak on the Cheenae-Pakistan border.
* 1958 - Lunnon Gatwick Airport is opened.
* 1962 - Tanganyika is proclaimed a republic.
* 1967 - Six-Day War: Israel taks the Golan Heights frae Sirie.
* 1972 - The Canyon Lake dam break in Sooth Dakota kills 238 fowk.
* 1975 - The first live transmission frae the Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick is braidcast.
* 1983 - Margaret Thatcher wins a seicont term as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick. 
* 1998 - A cyclone in Gujarat kills 3,000 fowk.
* 1999 - NATO an the Federal Republic o Yugoslavie reach a peace agreement.
* 2006 - The 2006 FIFA Warld Cup in Germany begins: Germany defeats Costa Rica 4-2 in the openin gemme.
* 2009 - A splosion kills 17 fowk an injures 46 at a hottle in Peshawar, Pakistan.
* 2010 - At least 40 fowk are kilt in a suicide bombin at a weddin pairty in Arghandak, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
* 2013 - Scots writer Iain Banks dees agit 59, twa month efter revealin his terminal cancer diagnosis.
* 2013 - Rafael Nadal wins his 8t French Open tennis title.
* 2017 - Unitit Kinrick general election, 2017: Conservative Prime Meenister Theresa May opens discussions wi Northren Ireland's Democratic Unionist Pairty in order for it tae support her pairty in govrenment; Paul Nuttall resigns as UKIP leader.
* 2019 - FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup: Scotland plays its first gemme in the toornament (an the first o ony Scotland team in a Warld Cup syne 1998), losin 2-1 tae Ingland; Claire Emslie scores Scotland's goal.

## Births

* 1546 - Claud Hamilton, 1st Laird Paisley, Scots politeecian (d. 1621)
* 1640 - Leopold I, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
* 1661 - Feodor III o Roushie (d. 1682)
* 1672 - Peter the Great, Tsar o Roushie (d. 1725)
* 1781 - George Stephenson, Inglis ingineer (d. 1848)
* 1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
* 1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrick activist (d. 1914)
* 1874 - Launceston Elliot, Scots wechtlifter (d. 1930)
* 1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, Inglis pharmacologist an pheesiologist (d. 1968)
* 1891 - Cole Porter, American componer (d. 1964)
* 1913 - Alex Venters, Scots fitbawer (d. 1959)
* 1915 - Les Paul, American jazz guitarist (d. 2009)
* 1917 - Eric Hobsbawm, Inglis historian (d. 2012)
* 1926 - Happy Rockefeller, Seicont Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2015)
* 1946 - James Kelman, Scots novelist, short-story writer an playwricht
* 1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American writer
* 1959 - Benny Gantz, Israeli politeecian
* 1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor
* 1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
* 1978 - Matthew Bellamy, Inglis muisicker
* 1978 - Miroslav Klose, German fitbawer
* 1981 - Alex Neil, Scots fitbawer
* 1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
* 1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch fitbawer
* 1988 - Mae Whitman, American actress

## Daiths
* 68 &ndash; Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
* 597 &ndash; Columba, Erse abbot an meesionar
* 1870 &ndash; Charles Dickens, Inglis writer (b. 1812)
* 1946 &ndash; Ananda Mahidol, Keeng o Thailand (b. 1925)
* 1959 &ndash; Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist (b. 1876)
* 1974 &ndash; Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer (b. 1899)
* 1977 &ndash; Arthur Landsborough Thomson, Scots ornithologist (b. 1890)
* 1994 &ndash; Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
* 2013 &ndash; Iain Banks, Scots writer (b. 1954)
* 2014 &ndash; Rik Mayall, Inglis actor, comedian an writer (b. 1958)
* 2015 &ndash; James Last, German bandleader (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Adam West, American actor (b. 1928)

## Halidays

* La Rioja Day
* Murcia Day
* Naitional Heroes Day (Uganda)
* Eat day o Saunt Columba