Read on to find out what happened on October 9 and made it to the books of history.
- 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven and later became Yale.
- 1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor.
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
- 1926 – The formation of National Broadcasting Corporation.
- 1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was shot and assassinated.
- 1946 – The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
- 1958 – The death of Vatican Pope Pius XII.
- 1959 – The Conservative Party won a third term of office in the UK, led by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
- 1991 – The opening of the play revival “On Borrowed Time”.
- 1994 – In response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border, the U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf.
- 2004 – Afghanistan held its first democratic election, with votes from an estimated 75 percent of the country’s registered voters.
- 2006 – Google announced the purchase of YouTube for US $1.65 billion in stock.
- 2006 – North Korea announced to have carried out its first test of a nuclear weapon, thus becoming the world’s 9th Nuclear Power.
- 2007 – Iraq demanded that the US ends its use of private security firm Blackwater within six months.
- 2008 – World stock markets continued to fall, with no quick solution for the recession.
- 2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”
- 2009 – NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
- 2011 – Former Beatles member, Sir Paul McCartney, married American heiress Nancy Shevell at a small ceremony in London.
- 2012 -After being convicted of forty-five molestation charges former football coach, Jerry Sandusky, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years imprisonment.
- 2013 – New Zealand gave its two islands official Maori names.