This Day in History April 9 - Mesa Public Schools
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This Day in History
April 9
1800 Justus Azel Seelye and Mehitable Bennett, Mr. Seeley’s great-great-great grandparents, marry in Luzerne, Pennsylvania
1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War
1939 More than 75,000 people attend a concert by famed African-American singer Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1940 Early in World War II, Hitler’s Germany invades Norway and Denmark
1942 78,000 American and Filipino troops surrender to the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines during World War II
1962 Composer Henry Mancini wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Moon River” from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s
1977 Swedish pop group ABBA scores its first #1 hit in the U.S. with the single “Dancing Queen”—the song is also a #1 hit in the UK and 12 other countries
1977 Gerard Way, lead singer of the emo band My Chemical Romance, is born in Summit, New Jersey
1979 English rock band Supertramp’s album Breakfast in America reaches 500,000 sales and is certified Gold
1988 Trinidadian recording artist Billy Ocean’s song “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car,” from the movie License to Drive, hits #1 in the U.S.
1996 The New York Yankees grounds crew dances to “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People as they drag the field in the fifth inning of their home opener, eliciting roars of approval from the crowd—the routine becomes a regular feature at Yankee Stadium
2005 England’s Prince Charles marries his longtime mistress Camilla Parker Bowles
2020 Americans begin receiving checks from the first coronavirus stimulus as part of the CARES Act— individuals could receive up to $1,200 as well as $500 per child under age 17
2020 Former Major League Baseball star Josh Hamilton is indicted on a felony charge for beating his 14-year-old daughter—Hamilton was a 5-time All-Star and was named American League MVP in 2010 as a member of the Texas Rangers
2020 The U.S. Department of Labor announces that 6.6 million people filed new unemployment claims during the previous week—a week earlier 6.86 million claims had been filed, an all-time high
2020 Data shows that 80% of hotel rooms in the U.S. are empty amid the coronavirus pandemic, a 70% change from the same time in 2019
2021 Prince Philip, the husband of England’s Queen Elizabeth II, died this morning at Windsor Castle at age 99 after a recent stay in the hospital—the couple had been married for 73 years
2021 Mesa Mayor John Giles announced yesterday that Mesa residents with a 2.0 or better high school GPA can now apply to Mesa Community College for the 2021 fall semester with tuition costs fully covered for two years—the funding comes from the federal CARES act and from generous contributions by businesses and individuals
2021 A Texas woman with the world’s longest fingernails, measuring over 24 feet, had them cut after nearly 30 years—the longest- ever fingernails on a woman measured over 28 feet and on man measured over 32 feet
2021 Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift’s first re-recorded album, was released today—she decided to re-record her first five studio albums following a public battle with music executive Scooter Braun, who owned the rights to the original recordings and sold them to an investor in 2020
2021 During an interview on April 4, Myanmar’s Major General Zaw Min Tun tried to justify the military’s bloody takeover of the country—he claims that the takeover was “not a coup,” that the generals are merely “safeguarding” the country while they investigate a “fraudulent” election, and that the bloodshed is the fault of “riotous” protestors
2021 About two dozen Barbary macaques broke out of a German zoo and spent the day in a nearby forest before being recaptured yesterday
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