Events for October 9, Friday

Holidays:
- Uganda's Independence Day;
- USA, Day Eriksson.

Developments:
- In 1708 - The defeat of the troops under the command of Peter I Corps Lewenhaupt at the Battle of the Forest during the Northern War, 1700-1721 (ill.1);
- In 1760 - Capture of Berlin Russian troops during the Seven Years' War;
- In 1874 - Creation of the Universal Postal Union (ill.2);
- In 1980 - Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz;
- In 2000 - the Washington Library of Congress received the biggest in its 200-year history of the donation - $ 60 million from billionaire John Kluge (John Werner Kluge) (ill.3);
- In 2006 - The first test of North Korea's nuclear weapons.

Born:
- In 1704 - Johann Zegner (d. 1777), the German-Hungarian physicist who created the prototype of the hydraulic turbine;
- In 1822 - Jacques Bresse (Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse) (d. 1883), a French mathematician;
- In 1825 - Vasily Vodovozov (d. 1886), Russian teacher, translator, children's writer;
- In 1879 - Max von Laue (d. 1960), German physicist, Nobel Prize in 1914 (ill.4);
- In 1892 - Ivo Andric (d. 1975), the Yugoslav writer and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner for literature (1961);
- In 1926 - Eugene Evstigneev (d. 1992), the Soviet film and theater actor, People's Artist of the USSR.

Died:
- In 1857 - Joseph Ressel (Joseph Ludwig Franz Ressel - Josef Ludvík František Ressel) (p. 1793), the Austrian inventor of Czech origin, will offer a new propeller for the ship - propeller, placed aft and built the world's first ship "Chiveta" with propeller (ill.5);
- In 1943 - Pieter Zeeman (b. 1865), a Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in 1902, together with Hendrik Lorentz (Hendrik Antoon Lorentz) «in recognition of outstanding contributions they have made to their research the influence of magnetism on radiation '(Plate .6);
- In 1949 - Viktor Uspensky (b. 1879), a music ethnologist, composer;
- In 1978 - Paul Antokolsky (b. 1896), a poet ("The municipality of '71," "Son", "Pushkin");
- In 1988 - Felix Wankel (b. 1902), German engineer and inventor, creator of the original rotary-piston internal combustion engine;
- In 2006 - Mikhail Shultz (b. 1919), Russian physical chemist.

Day: Vincent, Dionysus, Ludwik, Tikhon, Vladimir.