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On this day — April 9

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2021

Milestone

Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre

during which at least 82 civilians are killed.

2021

Milestone

Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.

2020

Milestone

Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.

2017

Milestone

The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria

Egypt, take place.

2014

Milestone

A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville

Pennsylvania.

2013

Disaster

A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.

2013

Milestone

At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.

2011

Milestone

Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.

2009

Milestone

In Tbilisi, Georgia

up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.

2003

Politics

Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.

1994

Milestone

Space Shuttle program

Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-59.

1992

Milestone

A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges

He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.

1991

Politics

Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.

1990

Milestone

An IRA bombing in County Down

Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.

1990

Milestone

The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.