What happened on 09 June in History: If you're curious about today's historical events, you've come to the right source. Each day presents us with a range of significant occurrences that have shaped both Indian and world history. Today, we commemorate several noteworthy events that have taken place on this very day in the past.
1. 1898 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years.
2. 1900 - Freedom fighter Birsa Munda died
Birsa Munda(15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) in the late 19th century, during the British Raj, thereby making him an important figure in the history of the Indian independence movement.
2. 1934 - 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"
3. 1942 - On this day the residents of the village of Lidice (now in the Czech Republic) were rounded up, most to be massacred the next day in reprisal for the assassination by Czech underground fighters of Reinhard Heydrich, deputy leader of the Nazi paramilitary group SS.
4. 1964 - Lal Bahadur Shastri became Second Prime Minister of India
Shastri was sworn in on 9 June 1964 taking over from the Acting Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda. Commanding a strong majority in the Indian Parliament that it had won in the 1962 Indian general election Shastri and the Congress party did not call fresh elections. In his first broadcast as Prime Minister, Shastri said:
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross- roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations."
5. 1975 - UK House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for first time.
6. 2013 - Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents.
7. 2019 - Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city.
8. 2022 - Conjoined twins with a fused brain successfully separated with help of virtual reality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
9. 2022 - NASA announces it will begin research into UFOs, focusing on unidentified aerial phenomena (U.A.P.s)
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