Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 9
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- 193 - Septimus Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
- 1336 - Tamerlane is born in Transoxiana.
- 1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeats the Polish and German armies.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- 1867 - Alaska purchase: By a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
- 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
- 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- 1942 - World War II: Bataan Death March begins for the United States forces who surrender on Corregidor.
- 1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- 1959 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury 7".
- 1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
- 1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 - Manuel Noriega is convicted of eight crimes.
- 1999 - Ismail Omar Guelleh is elected president of Djibouti.
- 1999 - Nigerian President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is assassinated.
- 2002 - The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon has her funeral at Westminster Abbey.
- 2003 - The Ba'ath regime headed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq is deposed.
- 2006 - Education and Sharing day
- 1981 - Eric Harris, one of the Columbine High School massacre gunmen (d. 1999)
why is he important? Maybe I'm too optimistic, but most of the other people on here are either famous because of a good deed he or she is solely responsible for. (This guy is part of one) I wouldn't object to having that Columbine happened on the page for April 20th. (It's already there.) There are events that are not in the most positive light here too, which isn't a big deal either. Also if a person doesn't have an article (or a very brief one), doesn't that say something? That's why I removed this one too:
- 1987 - Jessie McCartney, member of boy band Dreamstreet and actor WB11's Summerland
He can be put back once he has his own article. Sometimes people are important only for a year or too, and then are pretty much forgotten. This article should celebrate people that will be remembered for a long time (like 50 years). I'm not the only one who thinks he's not important: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19344.asp
