April 9th in History
April 9th
1483The young Edward V acceded to the throne on the death of Edward IV. The boy was murdered in the Tower 75 days later, on 25th June.
On 9th April 1558 Protestant martyr William Nicholas was burnt at the stake at Haverfordwest.
Nicholas was one of the many Protestants condemned to death in the short reign of Queen Mary. This is practically all that is known of Nicholas, as no record of his trial exists and information on his early life is negligible. Indeed, the manner of his death is the only precisely known fact about him.
1747The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain, in a form of execution which had been reserved for the nobility.
1770The explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia, the first European to do so.
1860: Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice on his phonautograph machine. The device traces sound waves on smoke-blackened paper or glass, but unlike Edison's later Phonograph, cannot play them back. It would not be until 2008 before they were actually heard once reconstituted by a computer.
1969Brian Trubshaw, the first British pilot to fly Concorde, made his first flight in the British built prototype. The 22 minute flight left from a test runway at Filton near Bristol and landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
9 Apr 1963
The Beatlesappeared live on the ITV show Tuesday Rendezvous, miming ‘From Me to You’ and ‘Please Please Me’ (during the closing credits). In the evening The Beatles played live at the Gaumont State Cinema, Kilburn, London.
1483The young Edward V acceded to the throne on the death of Edward IV. The boy was murdered in the Tower 75 days later, on 25th June.
On 9th April 1558 Protestant martyr William Nicholas was burnt at the stake at Haverfordwest.
Nicholas was one of the many Protestants condemned to death in the short reign of Queen Mary. This is practically all that is known of Nicholas, as no record of his trial exists and information on his early life is negligible. Indeed, the manner of his death is the only precisely known fact about him.
1747The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain, in a form of execution which had been reserved for the nobility.
1770The explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia, the first European to do so.
1860: Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice on his phonautograph machine. The device traces sound waves on smoke-blackened paper or glass, but unlike Edison's later Phonograph, cannot play them back. It would not be until 2008 before they were actually heard once reconstituted by a computer.
1969Brian Trubshaw, the first British pilot to fly Concorde, made his first flight in the British built prototype. The 22 minute flight left from a test runway at Filton near Bristol and landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
9 Apr 1963
The Beatlesappeared live on the ITV show Tuesday Rendezvous, miming ‘From Me to You’ and ‘Please Please Me’ (during the closing credits). In the evening The Beatles played live at the Gaumont State Cinema, Kilburn, London.
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