October 9: battle of Horodok, another speed record and "Yesterday"

On October 9, 1655, an army led by Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky defeated the army of the Commonwealth in the battle of Horodok near Lviv.

1872 - Aaron Montgomery Ward released the first mail order catalog. It consisted of one page.

1874 - the Universal Postal Union is created. On this day since 1957, World Post Day is celebrated.

1894 - A demonstration of the "magic lantern", the predecessor of the film projector, took place at the Carbon Photo Studio in New York. The principle of its operation consisted in designing photographic images on a glass plate on a white wall.

1915 - American Jill Anderson set a speed record at competitions in New York - driving a Stutz car, he reached an average speed of 102.6 mph (about 165 km/h) on a 360-mile track.

1928 - The Greek Catholic Theological Academy was founded in Lviv.

1963 - for the first time the Mi-8 helicopter took off.

1963 - a catastrophe at the Vayont dam: a landslide collapsed into the reservoir of the hydroelectric station, causing a wave height of 90 meters. As a result, the city of Longarone was flooded. Killed, according to various sources, from 2 to 3 thousand people.

1965 - The Beatles song "Yesterday" led the American charts.

1985 - on the day of the 45th birthday of the legendary rocker John Lennon, his widow Yoko. She opened a memorial to her husband in Central Park in New York - a flourishing site called Lennon’s Strawberry Field.

2000 - The Washington Library of Congress received the largest donation in its 200-year history — $ 60 million from billionaire John Coogee.

2006 - North Korea's first test of nuclear weapons.