October
9
Independence
Day
Uganda : 9 October 1962
October
9 : World Post Day
World Post
Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of
the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874
in the Swiss capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by
the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan, in 1969.
The purpose
of World Post Day is to create awareness of the role of the
postal sector in people’s and businesses’ everyday lives and
its contribution to the social and economic development of countries.
The celebration encourages member countries to undertake programme
activities aimed at generating a broader awareness of their
Post’s role and activities among the public and media on a national
scale.
Every year,
more than 150 countries celebrate World Post Day in a variety
of ways. In certain countries, World Post Day is observed as
a working holiday. Many Posts use the event to introduce or
promote new postal products and services. Some Posts also use
World Post Day to reward their employees for good service.
In many
countries, philatelic exhibitions are organized and new stamps
and date cancellation marks are issued. Other activities include
the display of World Post Day posters in post offices and other
public places, open days at post offices, mail centers and postal
museums, the holding of conferences, seminars and workshops,
as well as cultural, sport and other recreational activities.
Many postal administrations issue special souvenirs such as
T-shirts and badges.
Events
768 – Carloman
I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom
of Valencia.
1264 – The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that
was under Muslim occupation since 711.
1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar,
this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal
and Spain.
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed
in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from
the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after
he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and
giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale
University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 – Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring
ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading
to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast
of Finland.
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de
Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a
cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American
forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent
Greece is assassinated.
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first
public railway on the island of Ireland.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman,
is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union
troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen
in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's
Brook, Virginia.
1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S.
Naval Institute.
1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty
of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general
public.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China
leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls
to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World
Series.
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander
I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam)
begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit
it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time
air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the
City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia
Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal
as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the
Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese
Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC
Medal of Honor recipients
1950 – Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when
a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave
of water to overtop it.
1966 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
1966 – Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto
"Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite
a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called
in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection
with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on
September 24.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean
President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon,
Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage,
including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four
Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance
at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the
landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright
treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite
lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New
York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs
near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey
in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2003 – Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park
at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several
astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts
as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Denis
Dionysius the Areopagite
Ghislain
John Henry Newman
John Leonardi
October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Hangul Day (South Korea)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from
United Kingdom in 1962.
Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Guayaquil)
Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway)
National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania)
Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama)
World Post Day (International)
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