1. 1874 - The Universal Postal Union is established
The Universal Post Union (Universal Post Union- UPU), abbreviated as the Universal Post Union or the "UpU", is an intergovernmental international organization that agrees on international postal affairs, its predecessor was the "Postal Union" established on October 9, 1874, which was changed to its current name in 1878. Since 1 July 1978, upu has been a specialized agency of the United Nations on international postal services, headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, with the aim of promoting, organizing and improving international postal services and providing possible postal technical assistance to its members. Its purpose is to organize and improve international postal operations, to develop international cooperation in postal services and, to the extent within its capabilities, to provide the postal technical assistance requested by Member States. On 13 April 1972, the Universal Postal Union decided to admit the People's Republic of China as a full member.
2. 1888 - The birthday of Soviet leader Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (НиколайИвановичБухарин, October 9, 1888 – March 14, 1938) was a Soviet political theorist, revolutionary, thinker, and economist. After Lenin's death, he stood with Stalin and played an important role in the struggle against the "new opposition" and the Toti Alliance.
3. 1913 - Jiang Yiwu, the founder of the Wuchang Uprising, is killed
Jiang Yiwu (1885-1913) Martyr of the Second Revolution. A native of Lizhou, Hunan (present-day Lixian County, Hunan). After the defeat of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, he advocated revolution. In 1903, when he was studying at Changde Normal School, he was expelled for advocating revolution, so he contacted the party and established an uprising institution. In 1905, he entered the Chinese Public School in Shanghai, joined the League, and founded the "Jingye Xunbao". In 1909, he joined the Hubei New Army and joined the Zhenwu Society. In 1911, the Zhenwu Society was reorganized into a literary society and was elected president. On September 24, the Literary Society, in cooperation with the Communist Progressive Association, planned the uprising and was elected commander-in-chief of the uprising. After the outbreak of the Sichuan Road Protection Movement, he was promoted to commander-in-chief. On October 9, due to the destruction of the Hankou uprising organs, it was decided to revolt immediately, but because the traffic was blocked, it did not succeed, that is, sneaked out of Wuchang.
4. 1924 - Death of the modern translator Lin Qinnan
Lin Shu (1852~1924) was a modern writer and translator. The original name of Qunyu, the character Qinnan, the number of Fear Lu, the other sign of Leng Hongsheng, the late name of Li Shuo, Supplement Liu Weng, Jian Zhuo Weng, Chang'an Selling Painting Weng. Erudite and strong, able to poetry, able to write, able to draw, has the title of madman. In the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), he was raised and failed to pass the examination. For 26 years (1900), he worked as a Chinese language teacher at Wucheng Middle School in Beijing. The ancient texts he composed were highly regarded by the Tongcheng Sect master Wu Rulun, and he was famous and beneficial, and he served as a lecturer at Peking University. After the Xinhai Revolution, he taught at the Zhengzhi School run by Xu Shuzheng, a Beiyang soldier, and admired the ancient Chinese of the Tongcheng School. Later, in Beijing, he specialized in translating books and selling manuscripts and selling literature and paintings for a living.
5. 1934 - Assassination of the King of Yugoslavia
On October 9, 1934, during a state visit to France by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, a very exciting scene occurred in the streets of Marseille, and Alexander I (1888-1934) was shot to death. The assassination took place a few minutes after the king's ship arrived in Marseille. As the king and French Foreign Minister Louis Bardou crossed the rue des Deposs in a car, a ragged man jumped out of the police wall and jumped into a moving car. The gunman fired several rounds into the car, and both king and Badu were mortally wounded.
6. 1941 - End of the Second Battle of Changsha
On October 9, 1941, the Japanese troops attacking Changsha began to withdraw from their original positions under the counterattack of the Chinese army. Since the Japanese army invaded Changsha in September, the Chinese army began to carry out a breakthrough war on the communication line supplying the Japanese army in Changsha. By October 1, due to the long Japanese front, rear transportation was often cut off by the Chinese army, and supplies were difficult, and the Chinese troops in the Fifth and Sixth Theaters launched an attack on Yichang and Jingmen, forcing the Japanese army to withdraw from Changsha and retreat north. The Chinese army quickly organized a counterattack, pursuing, blocking and flanking the Japanese army, but because the main force after being seriously hit, the combat effectiveness declined, the strength was not enough, so that in the pursuit of the battle could not expand the results, only to obtain some small victories, October 9, the Japanese army withdrew to the north bank of the New Wall, the second Battle of Changsha ended here, this battle, the Japanese casualties more than 10,000, The Chinese army casualties and missing about 100,000 people.
7. 1943 – Peter Seyman dies of illness
Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist. In 1896, Zeeman discovered the splitting of atomic spectra in a magnetic field, which was named the Zeeman effect. Lorentz then theoretically explained the phenomenon, for which the two were awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1898, Zeeman was elected a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1921 he was awarded the Henry Dreber Medal, and in the same year he was elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in Amsterdam on 9 October 1943.
8. 1948 - Churchill proposes three-ring diplomacy
On October 9, 1948, Churchill proposed three-ring diplomacy. After the Second World War, Britain went into decline. Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, desperate to restore the British Empire to its former glory, proposed three-ring diplomacy at the Conservative Party's annual meeting on 9 October 1948.
9. 1962 - Uganda Independence Day
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa that straddles the equator. It borders Sudan to the north, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, Kenya to the east, and Rwanda, Tanzania and Lake Victoria to the south. The whole territory belongs to the East African plateau, with an average altitude of 1000-1200 meters. The Western Branch of the Great Rift Valley runs across the western border. There are many rivers and lakes, the main rivers are Victoria Nile, Albert Nile, Katunga, Kafu River and so on. The main lakes are Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Edward, Lake Chioga and so on. Rivers, lakes and swamps account for 18% of the country's area.
10. 1986 - Soviet scientists uncover the mystery of tornadoes
On October 9, 1986, scientists in the former Soviet Union unveiled the mystery of the tornado. Scientists at the Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics have successfully revealed the secrets of tornadoes, whose scale of destruction can be compared to nuclear explosions. Their theory of gravitational-thermal processes within tornadoes not only reveals the nature of this special atmospheric phenomenon, but also serves as the key to solving the dynamic problem.
11. 1989 - China's first submersible yacht launched
On October 9, 1989, China's first submersible yacht integrating entertainment and popular science was successfully trial-produced in Hanshou County Ship Repair Factory, and was launched for trial sailing a few days ago.
12. 1993 - Millennium dry corpses are found in the hinterland of Flame Mountain
On October 9, 1993, in the hinterland of Xinjiang's famous Flame Mountain, archaeologists excavated more than 10 ancient dry corpses from more than 2,000 years ago, all dressed in fur clothes, shoes and novel felt top hats.
13. 2009 – Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts
Barack Hussein Obama II ,i/bəˈrɑːkhuːˈseɪnoʊˈbɑːmə/, born August 4, 1961), was the first African-American president of the United States with black (Luoese) white (Mixed Anglo-German) ancestry, and was re-elected president of the United States in early 2008 and re-elected in 2012.