June 9

Today in History
• 1525 - Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
• 1529 - Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
• 1531 - Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
• 1549 - Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
• 1628 - 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts
• 1732 - Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
• 1822 - Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Day of La Rioja
• Day of Murcia
• Filipino-Chinese Friendship Day
• National Donald Duck Day
• National Heroes Day of Uganda
• National Krewe of Tucks Day
• National No Apologies Period Day
• National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day

Birthdays
• 1510 - Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem
• 1595 - Wladyslaw IV Vasa, King of Poland (1632-48)
• 1640 - Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1658-1705)
• 1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (1676-82)
• 1672 - Peter I Romanov, tsar of Russia, 1682-1725
• 1768 - Samuel Slater, industrialist who brought the textile industrial revolution to America
• 1781 - George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor, RR locomotive
• 1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)