What happened on November 9? There are more than 281 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 9
November 9 is the 314th day of the year 2024. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 45th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Cloutierville, Louisiana 71416 sunrise occured at 06:33 AM and sunset occured at 05:17 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 81 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 9
- 694Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1282Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1313Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
- 1330Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1456Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 1492Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1494The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
- 1520More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
- 1620Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1688The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
- 1697Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
- 1720The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
- 1729Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
- 1764Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- 1780American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
- 1791Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
- 1793William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
- 1799Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
- 1822The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
- 1848Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
- 1851Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- 1857The Atlantic founded in Boston.
- 1861The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
- 1862American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
- 1867Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- 1872The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
- 1887The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1888Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
- 1906Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
- 1907The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1913The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
- 1914SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
- 1917Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- 1918Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
- 1923In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
- 1935The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 1937Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1938Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
- 1940Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
- 1947India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
- 1953Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 1960Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1963At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 1965Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1965Several 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.
- 1967Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- 1967First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
- 1970Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- 1979Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
- 1985Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
- 1989Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
- 1993Stari most, the “old bridge” in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1994The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
- 1998A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
- 1998Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 2005Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
- 2005The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2007The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
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Who Were Born On November 9?
- 1389Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
- 1414Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
- 1522Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
- 1606Hermann Conring, German intellectual (d. 1681)
- 1664Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
- 1721Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
- 1731Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer (d. 1806)
- 1732Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
- 1799Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
- 1801Gail Borden, Jr., American inventor(d. 1874)
- 1802Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
- 1810Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
- 1811Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins (d. 1872)
- 1818Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- 1825A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
- 1829Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (d. 1918)
- 1832Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
- 1840Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
- 1841King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
- 1850Louis Lewin, German pharmachologist (d. 1929)
- 1853Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
- 1862Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
- 1869Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
- 1872Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
- 1873Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
- 1874Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
- 1877Allama Iqbal, British Indian poet and politician (d. 1938)
- 1877Enrico De Nicola, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
- 1878An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
- 1879Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect (d. 1959)
- 1879Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
- 1880Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
- 1883Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1885Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
- 1885Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
- 1885Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
- 1885Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
- 1886Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1886S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
- 1889Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
- 1890George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
- 1895Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1897Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- 1897Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
- 1902Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
- 1904Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
- 1905Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
- 1906Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
- 1911Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
- 1913Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
- 1914Thomas Berry, American theologian and deep ecologist (d. 2009)
- 1915André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1915Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
- 1918Choi Hong Hi, Co-Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
- 1918Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
- 1918Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
- 1920Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
- 1921Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (d. 2011)
- 1921Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
- 1922Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
- 1922Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
- 1922Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
- 1923Alice Coachman, American athlete
- 1924Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
- 1925Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
- 1926Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
- 1928Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
- 1929Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
- 1929Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
- 1931Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
- 1933Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
- 1934Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
- 1934Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
- 1934Ronald Harwood, South African author and playwright
- 1935Bob Gibson, American baseball player
- 1936Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
- 1936Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) (d. 2009)
- 1936Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
- 1936Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
- 1937Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
- 1937Roger McGough, English poet
- 1938Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
- 1939Paul Cameron, American psychologist
- 1941Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
- 1942Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
- 1944Phil May, English singer (The Pretty Things)
- 1945Moeletsi Mbeki, Political and economic commentator, South African economist
- 1945Richard Goldberg, convicted American sex offender and former fugitive
- 1946Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter
- 1947Robert David Hall, American actor
- 1948Bille August, Danish film and television director
- 1948Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
- 1948Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
- 1948Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer
- 1951Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
- 1951Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and star of The Incredible Hulk
- 1952Sherrod Brown, American politician, senior senator of Ohio
- 1953Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
- 1954Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis)
- 1954Shankar Nag, Indian film actor and director
- 1954Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
- 1955Bob Nault, Canadian politician
- 1955Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
- 1955Karen Dotrice, British actress
- 1955Thomas F. Duffy American actor
- 1959Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
- 1959Sito Pons, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1959Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
- 1959Tony Slattery, British actor
- 1960Andreas Brehme, German footballer
- 1960Joëlle Ursull, Guadeloupean singer
- 1961Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
- 1962Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
- 1963Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
- 1964Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
- 1964Sandra Denton, American musician (Salt-N-Pepa)
- 1965Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
- 1967Ricky Otto, English footballer
- 1968Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
- 1969Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
- 1970Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
- 1970Chris Jericho, Canadian wrestler and musician (Fozzy)
- 1970Domino, American music producer
- 1970Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
- 1970Nelson Diebel, American swimmer
- 1970Scarface, American rapper
- 1970Susan Tedeschi, American musician
- 1971Big Pun, American rapper (d. 2000)
- 1971David Duval, American golfer
- 1971Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
- 1972Corin Tucker, American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
- 1972Doug Russell, American sports radio and television personality
- 1972Eric Dane, American actor
- 1973Alyson Court, Canadian actress
- 1973Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
- 1973Nick Lachey, American singer
- 1973Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
- 1974Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
- 1974Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian Actress
- 1974Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
- 1977Chris Morgan, English footballer
- 1978Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
- 1978Steven López, American taekwondo martial artist
- 1979Adam Dunn, American baseball player
- 1979Martin Taylor, English footballer
- 1980Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
- 1980James Harper, English footballer
- 1980Vanessa Minnillo, Filipino television personality
- 1981Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
- 1981Lyn, South Korean singer
- 1981Scottie Thompson, American actress
- 1982Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
- 1983Rob Elloway, English/German rugby player
- 1984Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
- 1984Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
- 1984Seven, South Korean singer
- 1985Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
- 1985Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
- 1986Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish hockey player
- 1988Nikki Blonsky, American actress
- 1990Hodgy Beats, American rapper
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Who Died On November 9?
- 748Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Umayyad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
- 959Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
- 1187Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
- 1208Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
- 1456Ulrich II of Celje, last prince of Celje principality (b. 1406)
- 1516King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1581Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
- 1623William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
- 1641Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
- 1699Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress of Charles II (b. 1646)
- 1766Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
- 1770John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
- 1778Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
- 1801Carl Stamitz, German-Czech composer (b. 1745)
- 1809Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
- 1848Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
- 1881Edwin Drake, American oil driller (b. 1819)
- 1888Mary Jane Kelly, British victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
- 1911Howard Pyle, American illustrator and author (b. 1853)
- 1918Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
- 1918Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (b. 1829)
- 1919Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
- 1920Saint Nectarios, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pentapolis (b. 1846)
- 1924Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
- 1937Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- 1938Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889)
- 1940Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
- 1940Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
- 1942Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1944Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
- 1951Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
- 1952Chaim Weizmann, Israeli politician and 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
- 1952Philip Murray, American labor leader and 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
- 1953Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
- 1953King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud the first monarch of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
- 1957Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
- 1968Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
- 1970Charles de Gaulle, French military commander, politician, President of France (b. 1890)
- 1971Maude Fealy, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1977Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1979Frank O'Connor, American actor and representationalist painter (b. 1897)
- 1980Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1985Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
- 1988David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
- 1988John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
- 1991Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
- 1996Joe Ghiz, Canadian politician (b. 1945)
- 1997Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
- 1998Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
- 2000Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
- 2001Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
- 2002Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
- 2002William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
- 2003Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2003Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili littérateur (b. 1937)
- 2003Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
- 2004Emlyn Hughes, English football player (b. 1947)
- 2004Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
- 2005K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician and President of India (b. 1921)
- 2006Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
- 2006Ellen Willis, American journalist (b. 1941)
- 2006Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
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