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November 9November 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 of England & Charles VIII of France. *1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence. *1520 - Swedish Christian II of Denmark 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 d'état of 18 Brumaire. *1848 - Robert Blum, Germany 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 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: Communism-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 competitors. * 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, France 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) * 1940 - Stephen Alencastre, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate * 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, psychology * 2003 - Art Carney, United States 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 United Kingdom neo-Nazi "November 9th Society" takes its name from the Munich Beer Hall Putsch on this day. == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/9 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 8 - November 10 - October 9 - December 9 -- historical anniversaries November 9--User:Maveric149 00:45, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 9 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 9 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_9_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- See other meanings of words starting from letter: NNA | NB | NC | ND | NE | NF | NG | NH | NI | NJ | NK | NL | NM | NO | NP | NR | NS | NT | NU | NW | NX | NY | NZ |Words begining with November_9: November_9 November_9 November_9th November_9th_Society November_9_selected_anniversaries November_9_selected_anniversaries November_9_Society |
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