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On June 9, -411: The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

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The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

The Athenian coup of 411 BC was the result of a revolution that took place during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. The coup overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens and replaced it with a short-lived oligarchy known as the Four Hundred.

People

Born on June 9

Diego Lainez 2000– Mexican footballer (born 2000)
George Jennings 1993– Tonga international rugby league footballer
Zach Hyman 1992– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Yannick Agnel 1992– French swimmer (born 1992)
Boyd Cordner 1992– Australia international rugby league footballer
Aaron M. Johnson 1991– American jazz saxophonist (born 1991)
Matthias Mayer 1990– Austrian alpine skier (born 1990)
Antonella Alonso 1990– Venezuelan-Italian pornographic actress
Dídac Vilà 1989– Spanish footballer
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Jason Demers 1988– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Sara Isaković 1988– Slovenian swimmer (born 1988)
Sokratis Papastathopoulos 1988– Greek footballer (born 1988)
Mae Whitman 1988– American actor (born 1988)
Jaan Mölder 1987– Estonian rally driver (born 1987)
Doug Legursky 1986– American football player (born 1986)
Yadier Pedroso 1986– Cuban baseball player (1986–2013)
Ashley Postell 1986– Artistic gymnast
Richard Kahui 1985– Former New Zealand rugby union player

People

Died on June 9

Sly Stone American musician (1943–2025)
James Lawson American activist (1928–2024)
Alain Touraine French sociologist (1925–2023)
Julee Cruise American singer (1956–2022)
Billy Kametz American voice actor (1987–2022)
Matt Zimmerman Canadian actor (1934–2022)
Amir Liaquat Hussain Pakistani TV host and politician (1971–2022)
Bushwick Bill Jamaican-American rapper (1966–2019)
Fadil Vokrri Albanian football administrator and formerly Yugoslav footballer (1960–2018)
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Adam West American actor (1928–2017)
Pumpkinhead American rapper (1975–2015)
Pedro Zerolo Spanish lawyer and politician
Bernard Agré Ivorian Catholic prelate
Stuart Long American boxer and Catholic priest (1963–2014)
Rik Mayall English comedian (1958–2014)
Elsie Quarterman American plant ecologist (1910–2014)
Alicemarie Huber Stotler American judge
Gustave Tassell American fashion designer (1926–2014)

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Every June 9 on record

  1. -411 The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

    'The Four Hundred' oligarchy replaces the democratic government

    The Athenian coup of 411 BC was the result of a revolution that took place during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. The coup overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens and replaced it with a short-lived oligarchy known as the Four Hundred.

  2. 53 The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.

    Calendar year

    AD 53 (LIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Antoninus. The denomination AD 53 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  3. 68 Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

    Calendar year

    AD 68 (LXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silius Italicus and Trachalus, or the start of the Year of the Four Emperors. The denomination AD 68 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  4. 721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

    8th-century Duke of Aquitaine

    Odo the Great, was the Duke of Aquitaine by 700. His territory included Vasconia in the south-west of Gaul and the Duchy of Aquitaine, a realm extending from the Loire to the Pyrenees, with the capital in Toulouse. He fought the Carolingian Franks and made alliances with the Moors to combat them.

  5. 747 Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.

    Calendar year

    Year 747 (DCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 747 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  6. 1311 Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
  7. 1523 The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
  8. 1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
  9. 1732 James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
  10. 1772 The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
  11. 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
  12. 1815 End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
  13. 1856 Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
  14. 1862 American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.
  15. 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater.
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  1. 1885 Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
  2. 1900 Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
  3. 1915 William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
  4. 1922 Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.
  5. 1923 Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
  6. 1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  7. 1930 A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
  8. 1944 World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
  9. 1944 World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
  10. 1948 Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
  11. 1953 The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
  12. 1954 Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
  13. 1957 First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
  14. 1958 Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24.
  15. 1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

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