Important Events
2012 Assassination Attempt on Malala Yousafzai
1986 Phantom of Opera makes its theatrical debut
1970 Khmer Republic established
1962 Ugandan independence
1874 General Postal Union Created
Births On This Day – 9 October
- 1970 Annika Sörenstam
(Swedish golfer)
- 1969 PJ Harvey
(English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer)
- 1966 David Cameron
(English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
- 1940 John Lennon
(English singer-songwriter, musician, producer)
- 1888 Nikolai Bukharin
(Russian politician)
Deaths On This Day – 9 October
- 2004 Jacques Derrida
(French philosopher)
- 1978 Jacques Brel
(Belgian singer-songwriter, actor)
- 1974 Oskar Schindler
(Czech/German businessman)
- 1967 Che Guevara
(Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, theorist)
- 1958 Pope Pius XII
(He was the head of the catholic church and soverign of vatican city)