THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― OCTOBER 9

October 9 is the 282nd day of the year(283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56). 4

NATIONAL KICK BUTT DAY  

768 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks. The oldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, Charlemagne became king in 768 following the death of his father. He was initially co-ruler with his brother Carloman I. Carloman's sudden death in 771 under unexplained circumstances left Charlemagne as the undisputed ruler of the Frankish Kingdom. 

1290 – King Edward I of England (Longshanks) issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. "Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656.

1635 –Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land.

1701 – Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale University) is chartered in New Haven by a group of ministers. In 1718, the school was renamed "Yale College" in recognition of a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company.

1936 – Harnessing the power of the mighty Colorado River, Hoover Dam begins sending electricity over transmission lines spanning 266 miles of mountains and deserts to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles.

1967 – Socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army.

1969 – In the United States, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue in Chicago protesting the trial of the "Chicago Eight."

1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. In March, a coup led by Cambodian General Lon Nol had overthrown the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh. Between 1970 and 1975, Lon Nol and his army, the Forces Armees Nationale Khmer (FANK), with U.S. support and military aid, fought the Communist Khmer Rouge for control of Cambodia. During those five years of bitter fighting, approximately 10 percent of Cambodia's 7 million people died. 

1974 – German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the WWII Holocaust, dies at the age of 66.

1975 – Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who helped build the USSR's first hydrogen bomb, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of his struggle against "the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms." Sakharov was forbidden by the Soviet government from personally traveling to Oslo, Norway, to accept the award.

1992 – The Peekskill meteorite is among the most historic meteorite events on record. Sixteen separate video recordings document the meteorite burning through the Earth's atmosphere, whereupon it struck a parked car in Peekskill, New York. Peekskill was an H6 monomict breccia; its filigreed texture is the result of the shocking and heating following the impact of two asteroids in outer space. The meteorite is of the stony variety and approximately 20% of its mass is tiny flakes of nickel-iron. When it struck Earth, the meteorite weighed 26 pounds (12 kg) and measured one foot (0.30 m) in diameter. The Peekskill meteorite is estimated to be 4.4 billion years old.

2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

TODAY'S BIRTHS

1859 – Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel, the Dreyfus Affair (d. 1935)

1940 – John Winston Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, Plastic Ono Band, and The Dirty Mac) (d. 1980)

1975 – Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.