On This Day for April 9 - Fall of Baghdad, Jørn Utzon is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-09 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-09 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 09

The Sydney Opera House, Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour).

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Jørn Utzon

FEATURED EVENT

2003

Fall of Baghdad

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

Charles, prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles

2005: Charles, prince of Wales, who was first in line to the British throne, married Camilla Parker Bowles. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about English royalty.]

2001: American Airlines officially completed its acquisition of Trans World Airlines and became the world's largest airline. [Take our aircraft and air travel quiz.]

1965: The Astrodome, an indoor stadium, opened in Houston, Texas, hosting its first baseball game.

1963: An act of Congress conferred honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill. [Test your knowledge of famous people in history.]

1939: African American contralto Marian Anderson sang to an Easter Sunday crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. [ How much do you know about music?]