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.
• 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 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, and 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 and poet (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Milan Sufflay, Croatian 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, candidate for Vice President of the United States
• 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 and writer (d. 1996)
• 1935 – Bob Gibson, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1936 – Mikhail Tal, chess player (d. 1992)
• 1936 – Daniel Robert Graham, Governor of Florida
• 1939 – Ulrich Schamoni, film director
• 1941 – Tom Fogerty, musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
• 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder and actor
• 1959 – Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
• 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, actor
• 1970 – Chris Jericho, professional wrestler
• 1970  – Susan Tedeschi, blues musician
• 1972 – Corin Tucker, singer (Sleater-Kinney)
• 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, footballer
• 1978 – Sisqó, singer (Dru Hill) and actor
• 1978  – Ezequiel Santamaria, tennis player
• 1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, and actress

Deaths

• 959 – Emperor Constantine VII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 905)
• 1623 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
• 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)
• 1944 – Frank Marshall, chess player (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, chemist, 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.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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