April 9

April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining.

Events:

• 1682 - LaSalle discovers mouth of the Mississippi River and claims it for France.
• 1770 - James Cook discovers Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1865 - Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, effectively ending the American Civil War.
• 1940 - German invasion of Denmark and Norway.
• 1992 - Manuel Noriega convicted of eight crimes.

Births:

• 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer
• 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French lyricist (+ 1867)
• 1835 - Leopold II of Belgium
• 1848 - Helene Lange, German teacher (+ 1930)
• 1879 - W. C. Fields
• 1893 - Mary Pickford
• 1908 - Victor Vasarely, painter (+ 1997)
• 1912 - Lew Kopelev, Russian-German author (+ 1997)
• 1925 - Heinz Nixdorf, German industrialist (+ 1985)
• 1926 - Hugh Hefner
• 1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
• 1928 - Tom Lehrer, musician and satirist

Deaths:

• 1553 - Francois Rabelais
• 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon
• 1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr in Nazi Germany
• 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright
• 1976 - Phil Ochs

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