Anniversaries of June 9th

Santo Domingo.- The anniversaries of June 09, June, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left a mark on world history. Below are the main anniversaries of June 09, June:

• International Archives Day
• Donald Duck Day

Saints of June 9: Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Saint Joseph of Anchieta, Saint Columba of Iona, and Saint Diana of Andalo. Name day: Ephrem, Ephraim, Joseph, Columba, and Diana.

National: June 9th Anniversaries

• 1820. Governor Sebastián Kindelán publishes a proclamation warning the “rebels” that the differences between whites, mixed-race, and black people, as well as between free and enslaved people, have not ended.
• 1844. The Trinitarios, faced with the imminent annexation of the Republic to France by the Governing Junta, decide to stage a coup d’état with the support of the Capital’s garrison.
• 1845. Provincial Administration Law No. 40 is promulgated, through which the community of Higuey was converted into a municipality of the Seibo province.
• 1851. The Law containing Regulation 247 for the Internal Regime of the Supreme Court of Justice is promulgated.
• 1868. President Buenaventura Báez proposes to the United States the sale of Samaná Bay.
• 1845. The Law dividing the national territory into the provinces of Santo Domingo, Santiago, La Vega, El Seibo, and Azua is promulgated.
• 1891. President Ulises Heureaux, through Resolution 3421, grants Messrs. Federico Lithgow and Manuel Cocco the concession to establish telephone lines between the main towns of the Cibao, following a request made by them through the Ministry of Development and Public Works.
• 1958. The first chief of the National Police to come from within that institution is appointed, with the honor falling to Colonel Ramón A. Soto Echavarría.
• 1959. Anti-Trujillo fighter Manlio Bobadilla dies in Pinal del Río, Cuba, when a grenade accidentally explodes.
• 1970. The Chief of Police, General Guillermo Guzmán Acosta, reports having solved the kidnapping case of Colonel Donald J. Crowley, showing “the evidence” and accusing, among others, MPD leaders Héctor Antonio Ortiz Jaquez, Rafael Luna Cabrera, Rafael Francisco (Fafa) Taveras Rosario, and Amín Abel Hasbum.
• 1972. President Joaquín Balaguer issues Decree 2330, which provides that the General Manager of the Hotel Industry Development and Tourism Corporation shall supervise and manage all State hotels and be directly responsible to the Executive Branch for their proper operation.
• 1975. Guerrilla fighter Manfredo Casado Villar is shot to death by State security members while trying to reach the Capital and leave the country.
• – The issuance of diplomatic passports is regularized, limiting it to the President and Vice President, Secretaries of State, heads of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, the Attorney General, foreign service officials, international organizations, high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces and the National Police, and their respective spouses and children.
• 2014. The Minister of Interior and Police, José Ramón Fadul, calls on the Haitian government to help its nationals obtain the necessary documents so they can participate in the National Plan for the Regularization of Undocumented Foreigners.
• 2016. The United States Embassy, through the Narcotics Affairs Section and the Customs and Border Protection Office, donates ten dogs with their cages to form the first canine unit of the Specialized Center for Land Border Security.
• 2019. In a confusing incident, former Major Leaguer David Ortiz is shot by an unknown person while sharing with a group of friends at an entertainment center in East Santo Domingo, including Dominican communicator Jhoel López, who was also wounded.

International: June 9th Anniversaries

• 411 BC In Athens (Ancient Greece) – during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta – a coup d’état overthrows the democratic Athenian government and the oligarchy of The Four Hundred comes to power, which would be replaced a few months later.
• 068. Emperor Nero commits suicide upon learning of his death sentence by the Senate.
• 721. In present-day France, the Frankish army of Odo the Great defeats the Muslim army of the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1767. In England, the American Import Duties Act comes into effect, a new tax rejected by American colonists.
• 1789. In France, the National Assembly begins its operations, which existed until July 17 of that same year, serving as a transition between the Estates-General and the National Constituent Assembly.
• 1847. The Spanish military expedition under the command of General Concha enters Portugal to quell the Porto rebellion against the Portuguese government.
• 1862. The United States Senate votes for the abolition of slavery in all territories of the Union.
• 1898. China leases the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain for a period of 99 years.
• 1906. In the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt signs a law authorizing the federal government to inspect food industries and requiring manufacturers to specify the list of ingredients.
• 1938. The flooding of the Yellow River is triggered in the Republic of China to stop the advance of the Japanese army, which results in the drowning of hundreds of thousands of Chinese people.
• 1940. Norwegian troops surrender to the Germans.
• 1946. 19-year-old Bhumibol Adulyadej replaces his brother Ananda Mahidol, who died under strange circumstances, on the throne of Thailand.
• 1960. The Moscow government officially declares that it will defend Cuba in the event that the country is attacked by the United States.
• 1973. In Spain, Luis Carrero Blanco is sworn in as President of the Government.
• 1974. The Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize in Literature winner, and diplomat, Miguel Ángel Asturias, dies in Madrid, Spain, at the age of 74.
• 1976. The Plenary of the Spanish Cortes approves the legalization of political parties (“that are not communist or separatist”), for the first time since 1939.
• 1991. With the mediation of priest Rafael García Herreros, Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar surrenders to justice along with his associates Carlos Aguilar (El Mugre) and Otoniel de Js. González (Otto).
• 2005. In Bolivia, after weeks of protests and a general strike demanding the nationalization of oil and natural gas fields, President Carlos Mesa is removed from office and replaced by the President of the Supreme Court, Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé.
• 2006. The new Haitian Prime Minister, Jacques-Edouard Alexis, and his cabinet take office in a ceremony led by President René Préval, replacing the interim administration that led the neighboring country since the overthrow of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide two years earlier.
• – The military wing of the Palestinian organization Hamas resumes its attacks on Israel after several months of observing an unofficial ceasefire, by attacking the Israeli town of Ashkelon from the Gaza Strip with homemade rockets.
• 2013. Former US National Security Agency technician Edward Snowden confesses to having leaked US cyber-espionage data, which was revealed by American newspapers.
• – In Greece, following an order from the government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) closes its doors and leaves 2,800 people unemployed.
• 2016. The US Supreme Court determines that the sovereignty of Puerto Rico resides in Washington and that the ultimate source of power over the island is the US Congress.
• 2019. In Baku (Azerbaijan), the opening ceremony of the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee takes place.
• 2020. The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump faces three complaints in the Florida Election Commission for writing out-of-state addresses on his voting applications, the first of which tried to register to vote in Florida, but claimed his “legal residence” was elsewhere in the country, Washington, D.C.
• 2021. The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, urges the members of the entity’s Permanent Council to suspend Nicaragua’s participation for violating Article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, following the arrest of several opposition politicians.
• – Peruvian presidential candidate, teacher Pedro Castillo, with 50.20% of the votes over Keiko Fujimori with 49.7%, proclaims himself the winner of the elections, where the count has yet to yield an official winner.

Births: June 9th Anniversaries

• 1961 – Michael J. Fox: Canadian-American actor known internationally for playing Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
• 1963 – Johnny Depp: American actor, producer, and musician famous for his acting versatility and for bringing to life iconic characters like Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga.
• 1981 – Natalie Portman: Israeli-American actress, director, and producer, winner of the Academy Award for her performance in Black Swan.
• 1961 – Aaron Sorkin: American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, famous for his acclaimed scripts in films like The Social Network and series like The West Wing.
• 1861 – Rabindranath Tagore: Bengali poet, philosopher, and artist, the first non-European laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
• 1934 – Jackie Wilson: American singer and musician, nicknamed “Mr. Excitement,” he was a fundamental figure in the transition from rhythm and blues to soul.
• 1951 – James Newton Howard: American composer, widely recognized for creating the soundtracks for successful film franchises.

Deaths: June 9th Anniversaries

• 68 AD: Nero, the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, dies.
• 1870: Charles Dickens, one of the most influential writers in world literature, passes away.
• 1974: Miguel Ángel Asturias dies.
• 1994: Jan Tinbergen, considered one of the pioneers of econometrics, passes away.
• 2017: Adam West, remembered for playing Batman in the 1960s television series, dies.