June 9
1064 | Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile. | |
1534 | Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. | |
1790 | Civil war breaks out in Martinique. | |
1861 | Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals. | |
1863 | At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. | |
1923 | Bulgaria's government is overthrown by the military. | |
1931 | Robert H. Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design. | |
1942 | The Japanese high command announces that "The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed." | |
1945 | Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. | |
1951 | After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam's General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta. | |
1954 | At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency?" | |
1959 | The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched. | |
1972 | American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. | |
1986 | NASA publishes a report on the Challenger accident. |
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