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November 9

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining.

Events

  • 694 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems, and sentences all Jews to slavery.
  • 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
  • 1492 - Peace of Etaples between Henry VII & Charles VIII.
  • 1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
  • 1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles.
  • 1541 - Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.
  • 1729 - Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
  • 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
  • 1848 - Robert Blum, German revolutionary, executed in Vienna
  • 1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
  • 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George McClellan was removed.
  • 1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
  • 1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
  • 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
  • 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
  • 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
  • 1918 - Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
  • 1923 - In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
  • 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
  • 1937 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
  • 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
  • 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
  • 1963 - At Miike in Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • 1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
  • 1965 - Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
  • 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
  • 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States to not hear a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
  • 1971 - John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.
  • 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
  • 1993 - Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
  • 1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
  • 1997 - BBC News 24 begins broadcasting at 17:30 GMT.
  • 1997 - Mike Lookinland (of The Brady Bunch fame) is charged with drunk driving in St. George, Utah.
  • 1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
  • 2003 - During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
  • 2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitor.
  • 2004 - The Xbox game Halo 2 is released, bringing in US$75 million from pre-orders alone.

    Births

  • 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (d. 1586)
  • 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d. 1806)
  • 1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
  • 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (d. 1883)
  • 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
  • 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
  • 1853 - Stanford White, architect (d. 1906)
  • 1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (d. 1934)
  • 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
  • 1877 - Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet (d. 1938)
  • 1879 - Milan Sufflay, Croat politician (d. 1931)
  • 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (d. 1960)
  • 1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (d. 1942)
  • 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, writer (d. 1922)
  • 1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (d. 1955)
  • 1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (d. 1966)
  • 1889 - Jean Monnet, internationalist (d. 1979)
  • 1892 - Mabel Normand, silent film actress (d. 1930)
  • 1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
  • 1905 - Erika Mann, oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (d. 1969)
  • 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)
  • 1915 - Sargent Shriver, former candidate for Vice President of the United States, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy
  • 1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
  • 1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (d. 1965)
  • 1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (d. 1974)
  • 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
  • 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
  • 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (d. 1996)
  • 1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • 1936 - Daniel Robert Graham (Bob Graham), Florida Governor- 1979-1987, U.S. Senator from Florida- 1987-2004
  • 1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
  • 1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician, "Creedence Clearwater Revival" (d. 1990)
  • 1951 - Lou Ferrigno, Bodybuilder and Actor The Incredible Hulk
  • 1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
  • 1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German bass-baritone
  • 1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor/comedian
  • 1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
  • 1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • 1970 - Chris Jericho, professional wrestler
  • 1970 - Susan Tedeschi, blues musician
  • 1972 - Corin Tucker, Lead singer of Portland, Oregon-based punk band Sleater-Kinney
  • 1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, footballer
  • 1978 - Sisqó, R&B singer of group Dru Hill and actor
  • 1978 - Ezequiel Santamaria, Tennis Player
  • 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, actress

    Deaths

  • 959 - Emperor Constantine VII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 905)
  • 1848 - Robert Blum, German politician and member of the National Assembly (executed)
  • 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
  • 1911 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
  • 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
  • 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
  • 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
  • 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress (b. 1883)
  • 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
  • 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
  • 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
  • 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
  • 1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
  • 1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
  • 2002 - Heinrich Schiemann, TV anchor
  • 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
  • 2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, surrealist painter (b. 1912)
  • 2004 - Iris Chang, American author (b. 1968)

    Holidays and observances

  • Independence Day in Cambodia (1953)
  • Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterno, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day of the Roman Catholic Church)
  • November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938 and 1989.
  • The British neo-Nazi "November 9th Society" takes its name from the Munich Beer Hall Putsch on this day.

    Recorded this day

  • External links

  • BBC: On This Day

    November 8 - November 10 - October 9 - December 9 -- listing of all days


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