Also on April 9
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Araw ng Kagitingan (PH) · Day of Valor (PH)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Pesach VIII פסח ח׳ holiday
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2017 — Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria take place. ↗
- 2014 — A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. ↗
- 2013 — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people. ↗
- 2013 — At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča. ↗
- 2009 — In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 2000 — Jackie Evancho, American singer
- 1998 — Elle Fanning, American actress
- 1996 — Jayden Brailey, Australian rugby league player
- 1996 — Emerson Hyndman, American soccer player
- 1995 — Domagoj Bošnjak, Croatian basketball player