November 9

2024 Calendar

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1456 - Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present-day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 – Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
1520 - Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 - Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.
1729 – Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.
1791 - Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
1802 - From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.
1861 - The first-documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
1867 - The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.
1880 - A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present-day Croatia. The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

1901 – 2000

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 on his 66th birthday.
1913 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.
1914 - World War I: The SMS Emden is sunk by the HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 - Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.
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.
1936 - Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1944 - Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia, dies. As of 2013, he is the father of all the Saudi Kings that have reigned since his death.
1960 - Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
1963 - At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 - In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.
1965 - A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
1994 – Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
1997 - BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.
2000 - The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.

From 2001

2004 – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.
2007 - The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months.
2012 - Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
2012 - David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.
2014 - Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.
2016 - A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.
2019 - A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.

Births

Deaths

Up to 1900

959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
1456 - Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
1516 - Ferdinand of Aragon (b. 1452)
1581 - Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 - Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress to Charles II (b. 1646)
1766 - Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1848 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (b. 1807)
1856 - John M. Clayton, United States Secretary of State (b. 1796)
1875 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (b. 1786)
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)

1901 – 2000

1911 - Howard Pyle, American illustrator and writer (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1918 - Peter Lumsden, British general (b. 1829)
1919 - Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
1935 – Santadasji Kathia Baba, Hindu Philosopher (b. 1859)
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, American actress (b. 1883)
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
1952 - Philip Murray, American labor leader (b. 1886)
1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (b. 1914)
1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1953 - Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
1956 - Aino Kallas, Finnish author (b. 1878)
1962 - Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian Saint (b. 1858)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
1980 - Toyen, Czech Surrealist painter (b. 1902)
1988 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
1996 - Joe Ghiz, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (b. 1905)
1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1916)

From 2001

2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b. 1908)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1920)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
2008 - Executions for the Bali bombings:
- Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
- Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
- Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1970)
2011 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1922)
2012 - Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
2012 - Bill Tarmey, British actor (b. 1941)
2012 - Joseph D. Early, American politician (b. 1933)
2013 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
2014 - M. V. Raghavan, Indian politician (b. 1933)
2014 - Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor (b. 1954)
2014 - Joe Walsh, Irish politician (b. 1943)
2015 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
2015 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
2017 - Grete Berget, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
2017 - Fred Cole, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
2017 - John Hillerman, American actor (b. 1932)
2017 - Chuck Mosley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
2017 - Priyan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1964)
2017 - Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
2017 - Gene Kotlarek, American ski jumper (b. 1940)
2017 - Chuck Nergard, American politician (b. 1929)
2018 - Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (b. 1925)
2018 - Roger Hoy, English footballer (b. 1946)
2019 - John Gokongwei, Filipino businessman and philanthropist (b. 1926)
2019 - Noel Ignatiev, American author and historian (b. 1940)
2019 - Brian Mawhinney, British politician (b. 1940)

Observances and Significance

Independence Day in Cambodia
Schicksalstag in Germany, remembering several historic events in Germany that occurred on November 9
Inventor's Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Observances and Significance