Daily Calendar for Thursday, April 9, 2026

Daily Calendar

View daily calendar information including holidays, advice, and daily features.

Pope Benedict VIII – 1024
Frank Lloyd Wright (architect) – 1959
Harry Babbitt (sang with the Kay Kyser big band on such hits as The White Cliffs of Dover” and voiced the laugh of Woody Woodpecker”) – 2004
Jerry Lawson (electronic engineer and video game pioneer; died in Santa Clara, California) – 2011

Great Britain’s King Henry I was reprimanded in church for his long hair – 1105
Explorer La Salle claimed the Mississippi basin for France, calling it Louisiana – 1682
First tax-supported U.S. public library founded, Peterborough, New Hampshire – 1833
Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia – 1865
Jumbo the circus elephant arrived in the U.S. – 1882
Aerial Ferry Bridge opened in Duluth, Minnesota – 1905
The Boston Red Sox played Harvard University in the first official baseball game at Fenway Park. (The Sox won 2-0.) – 1912
Battle of Vimy Ridge (WWI) began in France – 1917
NASA introduced first seven astronauts to press – 1959
The Boston Celtics became the first NBA team to sweep an NBA championship series – 1959
Golfer Arnold Palmer won his third Masters Tournament – 1962
Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen – 1963
First baseball game in indoor stadium, Houston, Texas – 1965
Nature magazine published the longest known scientific name, which was about 207,000 letters – 1981
Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles – 2005
Rare Bactrian camel born at Budapest Zoo. – 2014