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 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
- 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, 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, but he quit a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1961 - Neil A. Armstrong records a world record speed in a jet 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.
- 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 Arǎpaşu/Theoctist
- 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 competitors.
- 2004 - The long-awaited Xbox game Halo 2 is released, bringing in US$75 million from pre-orders alone.
- 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 laureate
- 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
- 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer and philosopher (d. 1996)
- 1935 - Bob Gibson, baseball player
- 1936 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
- 1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, Governor of Florida
- 1937 - Roger McGough, English performance poet ("The Scaffold")
- 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
- 1970 - Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
- 1972 - Corin Tucker, American singer (Sleater-Kinney)
- 1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
- 1978 - Sisqó, American actor and singer (Dru Hill)
- 1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
- 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, and actress
Deaths
- 959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
- 1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
- 1208 - Sancha of Castile, queen 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
- 1848 - Robert Blum, German politician and member of the National Assembly (executed) (b. 1810)
- 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)
- 1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
- 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)
- 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)
Holidays and observances
- 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)
- 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
November 8 - November 10 - October 9 - December 9 -- listing of all days