1. On June 9, 1867, the village of Kearney Junction was officially incorporated in Buffalo County, Nebraska. The town was renamed Kearney in 1873, in honor of Civil War General Philip Kearny.

2. In 1903, William Jennings Bryan, a native of Nebraska and three-time Democratic nominee for President, delivered a speech on June 9th in Lincoln, Nebraska. In the speech, he spoke about the dangers of corporations and called for government regulation of business.

3. June 9, 1924, marked the opening of the Omaha Municipal Airport, now known as Eppley Airfield. The airport was built on 200 acres of farmland and consisted of a single runway and a small terminal.

4. On June 9, 1952, the Nebraska State Legislature voted to change the state's official motto from "Equality Before the Law" to "The Cornhusker State." The new motto reflected the state's agricultural roots and nickname.

5. In 2012, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced a major discovery on June 9th: a new species of dinosaur, named Nodosauridae, had been identified from fossils found in Nebraska. The dinosaur lived during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 70 million years ago.