1861
Jun 9, Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke, Civil War hospital worker, began working in Union hospitals. "The midwife must give way to the physician. Woman, therefore, must become physician."

1911
Jun 9, Carry Amelia Moore Gloyd Nation (b.1846), American temperance leader, died in Leavenworth, Kansas. She was buried in the Belton City Cemetery, Belton, Cass County, Missouri. Carry Nation was a social reformer, saloon smasher and scourge of barkeepers and drinkers everywhere. She was born in Kentucky on November 25, 1846.

1983
Jun 9, M. Thatcher's Conservative Party won the British parliamentary election.

1987
Jun 9, In a second day of testimony before the Iran-Contra congressional committees, secretary Fawn Hall said she had spirited secret documents from the White House because she feared they would fall into the wrong hands.

1993
Jun 9, Actress Alexis Smith died in Los Angeles at age 72.

2002
Jun 9, Se Ri Pak won the LPGA Championship to become the youngest woman to claim four major championships.

2002
Jun 9, A Georgia woman (63) shot to death 2 sons dying of Huntington's disease at a nursing home. She was charged with murder.

2007
Jun 9, An Egyptian girl (10) who contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus died, bringing the number of fatalities from the disease in the most populous Arab country to 15.

2009
Jun 9, South African health activist Thembi Ngubane (24) died of tuberculosis leaving behind a daughter (4). Her radio diaries of her struggle against the AIDS virus won her audiences and admiration around the world. Ngubane was 19 when she was given a tape recorder to make an audio diary about living with HIV in a country where nearly one third of young women are infected with the virus.

2011
Jun 9, Malikah Shabazz (46), the daughter of civil rights leader Malcolm X, was released from, jail in NYC after pleading guilty to stealing the identity of an elderly family friend and running up over $55,000 in credit card bills. She was arrested in North Carolina on Feb 18.