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October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 83 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
October 9: Leif Erikson Day; Thanksgiving in Canada (2023) Giardia muris, an example of a protozoan. 1676 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules" – the first known description of protozoa (pictured). 1740 – European soldiers and Javanese collaborators massacred Chinese Indonesians in the port ...
Leif Erikson Day. Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. [1] It honors Leif Erikson ( Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson ), [note 1] the Norse explorer who, in approximately 1000, led the first Europeans believed to have set foot on the continent of North America (other than Greenland ).
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His work included music, writing, drawings and film.
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison. 1904 – Birth of Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979) 1910 – Birth of José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998) 1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time. October 2:
October 12 (United States) Frequency. Annual. Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the Americas. Columbus went ashore at Guanahaní, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12 ...
John Entwistle (October 9, 1944 –June 27, 2002), Brit bassist for The Who, would have turned 79 this year. John Lennon (October 9, 1940 –December 08, 1980), Brit singer-songwriter and guitarist for The Beatles, would have turned 83 this year. Barbara Winfield (October 9, 1932 –August 10, 2005), American vocalist with Duke Ellington and ...
So much is happening this week! We start things off with a bang—aka a full moon in Aries on the 9th. Full moons are times of climax and release, and this one has big “shoot your shot” energy ...