Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 9.
1934 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who were negotiating an alliance, were assassinated by Vlada Chernozamsky, a Croat, in Marseille.
1941 – Coup d’etat in Panama.
1958 – Pope Pius XII, head of the Roman Catholic Church during World War Two, died aged 82.
1962 – Uganda became independent after nearly 70 years of British rule.
1967 – Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Argentine-born guerrilla leader and revolutionary, was killed in Bolivia while leading a Cuban-sponsored force.
1974 – Muhammad Ali fights George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to win heavyweight championship for second time.
1997 – Hurricane Pauline killed more than 200 people in the Mexican tourist resort of Acapulco.
2002 – Russia held its first post-Soviet census across 11 time zones requiring the mobilisation of 650,000 workers and reinforcement of on-duty police by a third.
2004 – Afghans voted in the country’s first ever direct presidential election. Results later confirmed the victory of incumbent Hamid Karzai.
2012 – Taliban members in Pakistan make a failed attempt to assassinate schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
2013 – World’s first and oldest cinema reopens in La Ciotat after renovations.
(Reuters)
