Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date
Friday, October 9, 2026
Today is the 282nd day of 2026. There are 83 days left in this year.
Notable Events
1635
Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1701
The Collegiate School of Connecticut - later Yale University - was chartered in New Haven.
1776
A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1888
The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1930
Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1936
The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1946
The Eugene O'Neill drama ''The Iceman Cometh'' opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.
1967
Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
1975
Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985
The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1989
The official Soviet news agency Tass reported that a spaceship of some kind, complete with a trio of tall aliens, had visited a park in the city of Voronezh.
1990
David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Notable Births
1940
Rock musician-songwriter John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England.
Notable Deaths
1958
Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy. He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.