November 9
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[edit] Births
- 1934 - Carl Sagan
- 1959 - Bryan Adams
- 1970 - Chris Jericho - Canadian Professional Wrestler
- 1991 - Bishop Nash
[edit] Deaths
- 959 - Emperor Constantine VII of the Byzantine Empire (born 905)
- 1623 - William Camden, English historian (born 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 (born 1853)
- 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (born 1880)
- 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866)
- 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1869)
- 1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
- 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress (born 1883)
- 1944 - Frank Marshall, chess player (born 1877)
- 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (born 1887)
- 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of Israel (born 1874)
- 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (born 1914)
- 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (born 1890)
- 1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (born 1913)
- 1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (born 1921)
- 2002 - Heinrich Schiemann, TV anchor
- 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
- 2003 - Art Carney, American actor (born 1918)
- 2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, surrealist painter (born 1912)
- 2004 - Iris Chang, American author (born 1968)
[edit] 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 and 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.
- 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.
- 2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.