| General Information for April 9th 2016 |
| There are 3 public holidays today. |
| Day 100 of 2016 |
| 266 days left in 2016 |
| Week 14 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 2005 - HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, marries Camilla Parker Bowles at the Guildhall, Windsor's Town Hall. |
| 1794 - Theobald Boehm, the German inventor of the modern flute, is born (d. 1881). |
| 1744 - Grace Pett, wife of a fishmonger in Ipswich, ignites in an incident believed to prove the existence of Spontaneous Human Combustion. |
| 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon dies from pneumonia. |