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November 9
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{{PAGENAME}} 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
Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
*
1282 -
Pope Martin IV excommunicates King
Peter III of Aragon.
*
1492 -
Peace of Etaples between
Henry VII of England Henry VII &
Charles VIII of France Charles VIII.
*
1494 -
Family de' Medici become rulers of
Florence.
*
1520 - Danish
Christian II of Denmark King Christian II executes 82 in the
Stockholm Bloodbath.
*
1729 - Spain, France & England sign the
Treaty of Seville.
*
1764 -
Mary Campbell, a captive of the
Lenape during the
French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel
Henry Bouquet.
*
1799 -
Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte leads the
Coup d'état of
18 Brumaire ending the unwieldy
French Directory Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (
French Consulate Consulate Government).
*
1848 -
Robert Blum,
Germany 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:
United States 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
Edward VII of the United Kingdom 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.
*
1921 -
Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
*
1923 - In
Munich,
Germany, police and government troops crush the
Beer Hall Putsch in
Bavaria. The failed
coup is the work of the
Nazis.
*
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.
*
1940 - Premiere of
Joaquin Rodrigo's
Concierto de Aranjuez in
Barcelona,
Spain.
*
1953 -
Cambodia becomes independent from
France.
*
1960 -
Robert McNamara is named president of
Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected
John F. Kennedy administration.
*
1961 -
Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a
X-15.
*
1963 - At Miike in
Japan, a
coal mine explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with
carbon monoxide poisoning. On the same day, a three-train disaster in
Yokohama, also in
Japan, kills more than 160 people.
*
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.
*
1986 -
Romania: Election of Patriarch
Teoctist ArÇŽpaÅŸu/Theoctist
*
1989 -
Cold War:
Communism 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.
*
1996 -
UN Security Council Resolution 1078 calls on members to prepare for possible military intervention in Eastern
Zaire.
*
1997 -
BBC News 24 begins broadcasting at 17:30 GMT.
*
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.
* 2003 -
Rebel Youth Network Organizing Committee formed in
Toronto.
*
2004 -
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of
Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
* 2004 - The
St. Louis Blues (hockey) St. Louis Blues announced that they are selling their
American Hockey League affiliate, the
Worcester IceCats, and that the team would be moving to
Peoria, IL, for the 2005-2006 season.
* 2004 -
John Ashcroft and
Don Evans resign their posts as
U.S. Attorney General and
U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively.
* 2004 - ''
Halo 2'', one of the most anticipated
video games of all time, is released for the
Xbox.
*
2005 - The
Venus Express mission of the
European Space Agency is launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.
* 2005 -
2005 Amman bombings Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in
Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people.
* 2005 -
Muriel Degauque becomes the first
Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq.
Births
*
1414 -
Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d.
1486)
*
1522 -
Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d.
1586)
*
1664 -
Henry Wharton, English writer (d.
1695)
*
1717 -
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (d.
1768)
*
1721 -
Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d.
1770)
*
1731 -
Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d.
1806)
*
1802 -
Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d.
1837)
*
1810 -
Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d.
1887)
*
1818 (N.S.) -
Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d.
1883)
*
1825 -
A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d.
1865)
*
1841 - King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d.
1910)
*
1853 -
Stanford White, American architect (d.
1906)
*
1869 -
Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d.
1934)
*
1873 -
Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d.
1941)
*
1877 -
Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d.
1959)
* 1877 -
Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (d.
1938)
*
1879 -
Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (d.
1931)
*
1880 - Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (d.
1960)
*
1883 -
Edna May Oliver, American actress (d.
1942)
*
1885 (N.S.) -
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d.
1922)
* 1885 -
Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d.
1955)
*
1886 -
Ed Wynn, American actor (d.
1966)
*
1889 -
Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d.
1979)
*
1892 -
Mabel Normand, American actress (d.
1930)
*
1895 -
Mae Marsh, American actress (d.
1968)
*
1897 -
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978)
*
1902 -
Anthony Asquith, British film director (d.
1968)
*
1905 -
Erika Mann, German writer (d.
1969)
*
1913 -
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d.
2000)
*
1915 -
André François, French cartoonist (d.
2005)
* 1915 -
Sargent Shriver, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
*
1918 -
Spiro Agnew,
Vice President of the United States (d.
1996)
*
1923 -
Alice Coachman, American athlete
* 1923 -
Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d.
1965)
*
1928 -
Anne Sexton, American poet (d.
1974)
*
1929 -
Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
*
1934 -
Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
* 1934 -
Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d.
1996)
*
1935 -
Bob Gibson, baseball player
*
1936 -
Daniel Robert Graham, Governor of Florida
* 1936 -
Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d.
1992)
*
1937 -
Roger McGough, English poet
*
1941 -
Tom Fogerty, American musician (
Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d.
1990)
*
1942 -
Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
*
1951 -
Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor
*
1959 -
Thomas Quasthoff, German bass-baritone
* 1959 -
Tony Slattery, British actor and comedian
*
1961 -
Jill Dando, British television presenter (d.
1999)
*
1964 -
Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
*
1965 -
Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
*
1965 -
Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
*
1968 -
Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
*
1970 -
Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor and musician
* 1970 -
Susan Tedeschi, American musician
*
1972 -
Corin Tucker, American singer (
Sleater-Kinney)
*
1974 -
Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
*
1976 -
Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress
*
1978 -
Sisqó, American actor and singer (
Dru Hill)
*
1979 -
Adam Dunn, baseball player
*1979 -
Martin Taylor (footballer) Martin Taylor, English footballer
*
1981 -
Luke Covell, Australian
Rugby League player
*
1984 -
Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, and actress
*1984 -
SE7EN (singer) SE7EN, Korean hip-hop singer
Deaths
*
959 -
Constantine VII,
Byzantine Emperor (b.
905)
*
1187 -
Emperor Gaozong of China (b.
1107)
*
1208 -
Sancha of Castile, wife of
Alfonso II of Aragon (b.
1155)
*
1504 - King
Ferdinand II of Aragon (b.
1452)
*
1623 -
William Camden, English historian (b.
1551)
*
1641 -
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
*
1766 -
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b.
1692)
*
1770 -
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
*
1778 -
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b.
1720)
*
1809 -
Paul Sandby, English cartographer and painter (b.
1725)
*
1848 -
Robert Blum, German politician and member of the
The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states National Assembly (executed) (b.
1810)
*
1888 -
Mary Jane Kelly, Victim of the infamous Whitechapel serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (b.
1863)
*
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)
*
1938 -
Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.
1889)
*
1940 -
Stephen Alencastre Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b.
1876)
* 1940 -
Neville Chamberlain,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1869)
*
1942 -
Edna May Oliver, American actress (b.
1883)
*
1944 -
Frank Marshall, American chess player (b.
1877)
*
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)
*
1997 -
Helenio Herrera, French football player and manager
*
1998 -
Ursula Reit, German actress from ''
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (b.
1914)
*
2000 -
Hugh Paddick, British actor (b.
1915)
*
2002 -
William Schutz, psychologist
*
2003 -
Art Carney, American actor (b.
1918)
* 2003 -
Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b.
1912)
*
2004 -
Iris Chang, American author (b.
1968
*
2005 -
K. R. Narayanan,
President of India (b.
1921)
Holidays and observances
*
Calendar of Saints Roman Catholicism - Dedication of the
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano,
Cathedral of the
Pope (memorial feast day)
* Also see
November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Cambodia -
Independence Day (
1953)
*
Pakistan -
Allama Iqbal Day (
1877)
*
Germany - November 9th is often called
Germany's ''
Schicksalstag'' (day of fate) due to the events of
1848,
1918,
1923,
1938, and
1989.
*
Europe -
Inventor's Day - in honor of
Hedy Lamarr's birthday
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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November 8 -
November 10 -
October 9 -
December 9 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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