WHAT HAPPENED ON 9. OCTOBER
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Prussia declares war on France. (9. October 1806)

War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. (9. October 1812)

Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. (9. October 1820)

Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica. (9. October 1824)

Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated. (9. October 1831)

Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland. (9. October 1834)

The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church. (9. October 1845)

Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins. (9. October 1854)

American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens. (9. October 1861)

American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia. (9. October 1864)

A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. (9. October 1873)

General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne. (9. October 1874)

The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. (9. October 1888)

Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated. (9. October 1907)

An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire (9. October 1911)

Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic. (9. October 1913)

World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. (9. October 1914)

Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series. (9. October 1919)

Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. (9. October 1934)

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. (9. October 1936)