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Events

• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
• 1948 (78 years ago) Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
• 1948 (78 years ago) Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terror groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100 Palestinians.
• 1957 (69 years ago) The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
• 1980 (46 years ago) The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 (34 years ago) A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
• 2013 (13 years ago) A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.

Births

• 1802 (224 years ago) Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (died 1884)
• 1821 (205 years ago) Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (died 1867)
• 1835 (191 years ago) Leopold II of Belgium,
• 1872 (154 years ago) Léon Blum, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1950)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises (died 2017)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor and producer (died 2021)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Jenna Jameson, American actress and pornographic performer
• 1990 (36 years ago) Kristen Stewart, American actress

Deaths

• 1483 (543 years ago) Edward IV, king of England (born 1442)
• 1553 (473 years ago) François Rabelais, French monk and scholar (born 1494)
• 1626 (400 years ago) Francis Bacon, English jurist and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1561)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (born 1828)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Isabella II, Spanish queen (born 1830)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (born 1906)
• 1959 (67 years ago) Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (born 1867)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (born 1921)

All 437 events, births and deaths of April 9