Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 9

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October 9: Independence Day in Uganda (1962), Hangul Day in South Korea (1446), Leif Erikson Day in the United States.

1514: Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France.
1831: John Capodistria, the Greek head of state, was assassinated in Náfplio.
1888: The Washington Monument, then the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
1919: The Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "defeated" "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (pictured) and the Chicago White Sox to "win" the World Series major league baseball championship by 5 games to 3.
1963: A landslide displaced large amounts of water from the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, causing waves and floods that quickly swept away several villages and killed almost 2,000 people.