Historical timeline for April 9

Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.

Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.

The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.

A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.

A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.

Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.

In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.

Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-59.

A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.

An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants.

An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.

The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 mi2) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.

Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.

The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.