Daily Calendar for April 9th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1020s

• Died 1024: Pope Benedict VIII

1100s

• 1105: Great Britain's King Henry I was reprimanded in church for his long hair

1680s

• 1682: Explorer La Salle claimed the Mississippi basin for France, calling it Louisiana

1790s

• Born 1794: Theobald Boehm (inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute)

1830s

• Born 1830: Eadweard Muybridge (photographer, motion picture pioneer)

• 1833: First tax-supported U.S. public library founded, Peterborough, New Hampshire

1860s

• 1865: Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia

1880s

• 1882: Jumbo the circus elephant arrived in the U.S.

1900s

• 1905: Aerial Ferry Bridge opened in Duluth, Minnesota

1910s

• 1912: The Boston Red Sox played Harvard University in the first official baseball game at Fenway Park. (The Sox won 2-0.)

1920s

• Born 1926: Hugh Hefner (editor & publisher)

1930s

• Born 1932: Carl Perkins (musician)

1950s

• Born 1954: Dennis Quaid (actor)

• Born 1957: Seve Ballesteros (golfer)

• Died 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)

• 1959: NASA introduced first seven astronauts to press

• 1959: The Boston Celtics became the first NBA team to sweep an NBA championship series

1960s

• 1962: Golfer Arnold Palmer won his third Masters Tournament

• 1963: Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen

• 1965: First baseball game in indoor stadium, Houston, Texas

• Born 1966: Cynthia Nixon (actress)

1970s

• Born 1979: Keshia Knight Pulliam (actress)

1980s

• 1981: Nature magazine published the longest known scientific name, which was about 207,000 letters

• Born 1987: Jesse McCartney (actor & singer)

1990s

• Born 1990: Kristen Stewart (actress)

• Born 1998: Elle Fanning (actress)

2000s

• Died 2004: Harry Babbitt (sang with the Kay Kyser big band on such hits as "The White Cliffs of Dover" and voiced the laugh of Woody Woodpecker)

• 2005: Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles

2010s

• 2014: Rare Bactrian camel born at Budapest Zoo.