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October 9

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2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria

7 years ago

Born this day

1940

John Lennon

Would be 86

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Oldest record

765th

Denis I of Portugal

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Famous births26

1261 · 765 yrs

Denis I of Portugal

Denis (Latin: Dionysius Alphonsus, Portuguese: Dinis Afonso; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (Rei Lavrador) and the Poet King (Rei Poeta), was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325.

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RoyaltyDied aged 63

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1757 · 269 yrs

Charles X of France

Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to former reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile.

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RoyaltyDied aged 79

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1835 · 191 yrs

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK:, US:; French: 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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MusicDied aged 86

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1852 · 174 yrs

Emil Fischer

Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (German:; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification.

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1859 · 167 yrs

Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair.

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MilitaryDied aged 75

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1873 · 153 yrs

Karl Schwarzschild

Karl Schwarzschild (German:; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.

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ScienceDied aged 42

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1879 · 147 yrs

Max von Laue

Max Theodor Felix von Laue (German:; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals." In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory,…

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ScienceWould be 147

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1888 · 138 yrs

Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Russian: Николай Иванович Бухарин, IPA:; 9 October 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist.

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PoliticsWould be 138

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1892 · 134 yrs

Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

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LiteratureWould be 134

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1906 · 120 yrs

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor ( song-GOR, French:, Wolof: Léwopóol Sedaar Seŋoor; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980.

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PoliticsWould be 120

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1907 · 119 yrs

Jacques Tati

Jacques Tati (French:; born Jacques Tatischeff, pronounced; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying the character Monsieur Hulot in his films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967), and Trafic (1971).

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1933 · 93 yrs

Peter Mansfield

Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.

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ScienceWould be 93

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Famous deaths21

1841 · 185 yrs

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German pronunciation:; 13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets.

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ArtDied aged 60

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1924 · 102 yrs

Valery Bryusov

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (Russian: Вале́рий Я́ковлевич Брю́сов, IPA:; 13 December 1873 – 9 October 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.

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LiteratureDied aged 50

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1934 · 92 yrs

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Alexander I Karađorđević (Serbo-Croatian: Александар I Карађорђевић, Aleksandar I Karađorđević, 16 December 1888 – 9 October 1934) was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination.

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1943 · 83 yrs

Pieter Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

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ScienceDied aged 78

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1958 · 68 yrs

Pius XII

Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.

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ReligionWould be 150

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1967 · 59 yrs

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna (14 May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist.

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ActivismWould be 98

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1967 · 59 yrs

André Maurois

André Maurois (French:; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author.

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LiteratureWould be 141

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1967 · 59 yrs

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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ScienceWould be 129

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1974 · 52 yrs

Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler (German:; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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1978 · 48 yrs

Jacques Brel

Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French:; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world.

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MusicWould be 97

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1979 · 47 yrs

Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki (Pashto: نور محمد ترکی‎; 14 July 1917 – 9 October 1979) was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer.

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MilitaryWould be 109

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1982 · 44 yrs

Anna Freud

Anna Freud ( FROYD; Austrian German:; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays.

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Events5

1780 · 246 yrs

Great Hurricane of 1780

The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 22,000 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles when the storm passed through the islands from October 10 to October 16.

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Disaster

1943 · 83 yrs

Battle of the Caucasus

The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II.

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War

1978 · 48 yrs

Uganda–Tanzania War

The Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War (Swahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, was fought between Uganda and Tanzania from October 1978 until June 1979 and led to the overthrow of Ugandan President Idi Amin.

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War

2016 · 10 yrs

Rohingya genocide

The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Tatmadaw (armed forces of Myanmar).

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Tragedy

2019 · 7 yrs

2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria

Operation Peace Spring (Turkish: Barış Pınarı Harekâtı) was a joint operation by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Syrian National Army (SNA) against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), later involving the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), in northeastern Syria.

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