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Events

• 68 (1958 years ago) 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.
• 1885 (141 years ago) 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.
• 1923 (103 years ago) Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
• 1999 (27 years ago) Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Births

• 1672 (354 years ago) Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725)
• 1843 (183 years ago) Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012)
• 1961 (65 years ago) Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
• 1963 (63 years ago) Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1978 (48 years ago) Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1981 (45 years ago) Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
• 1984 (42 years ago) Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer

Deaths

• 68 (1958 years ago) Nero, Roman emperor (born 37)
• 373 (1653 years ago) Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (born 306)
• 1597 (429 years ago) José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)
• 1870 (156 years ago) Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)
• 1959 (67 years ago) Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
• 1994 (32 years ago) Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

All 385 events, births and deaths of June 9