November 9

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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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 - Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1492 - Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 - The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 - Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1729 - Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1848 - Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is 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.
1861 - The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 - Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
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. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1917 - Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR.
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
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.
1935 - The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
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. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 - At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
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.
1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965, The power lines from Niagara Falls to New York City were operating near their maximum capacity. At about 5:15 a transmission line relay failed.
1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 - Vietnam 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.
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.
1985 - Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 - Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
1990 - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
1990 - Mary Robinson is elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
1993 - Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1999 - TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

Births

1389 - Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
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 archaeologist (d. 1768)
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d. 1806)
1732 - Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1818 (N.S.) - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1832 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, British Indian poet and politician (d. 1938)
1879 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designer of the red telephone box (d. 1960)
1883 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1885 (N.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1889 - Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
1890 - George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
1904 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 - Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
1906 - Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
1911 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
1915 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1915 - Sargent Shriver, American politician
1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 - Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
1921 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
1922 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete
1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
1924 - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
1929 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
1931 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
1935 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
1936 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
1936 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Roger McGough, English poet
1937 - Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
1938 - Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
1939 - Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
1942 - Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
1944 - Phil May, English singer (The Pretty Things)
1947 - Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 - Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
1948 - Bille August, Danish film and television director
1948 - Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
1951 - Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1952 - Sherrod Brown, American politician, junior senator of Ohio
1953 - Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1954 - Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis)
1954 - Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
1955 - Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 - Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
1959 - Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1963 - Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1965 - Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
1967 - Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 - Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1969 - Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1964 - Sandy Denton, American musician ("Pepa" of Salt-N-Pepa)
1970 - Chris Jericho, Canadian wrestler and musician (Fozzy)
1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1970 - Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
1970 - Scarface, American rapper
1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
1971 - David Duval, American golfer
1971 - Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1971 - Big Punisher, real name Christopher Rios, American rapper (d. 2000)
1972 - Eric Dane, American actor
1972 - Doug Russell, American radio personality
1972 - Corin Tucker, American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
1973 - Alyson Court, Canadian actress
1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 - Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
1973 - Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 - Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
1974 - Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
1978 - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 - Todd Self, American baseball player
1978 - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 - Caroline Flack, British television presenter
1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 - James Harper, English footballer
1980 - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
1980 - Vanessa Minillo, Phillipino television personality
1981 - Scottie Thompson, American actress
1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 - Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1988 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1986 - Jessica Archibald