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What happened on November 9
On November 9 history recorded 75 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 117 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 75events
- 160births
- 117deaths
- 16observances
Highlights
Highlights
1822USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
The third USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy.
1888Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London.
Mary Jane Kelly, also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered at least five women in the Whitechape
1913A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the Big Blow, the Freshwater Fury and the White Hurricane, was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes region in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Can
November 9
On this day
VII century
- 694
694At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
XII century
XIII century
XIV century
- 1307
1307Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy. - 1313
1313Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf. - 1323
1323Siege of Warangal: Prataparudra surrenders to Muhammad bin Tughlaq, officially marking the end of the Kakatiya dynasty. - 1330
1330At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert. - 1372
1372Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.
XV century
XVI century
XVII century
XVIII century
- 1719
1719In a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of the Great Northern War, Sweden cedes the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover. - 1720
1720The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem. - 1729
1729Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville. - 1780
1780American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter. - 1791
1791The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded. - 1799
1799Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
XIX century
- 1851
1851Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. - 1862
1862American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. - 1867
1867The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration. - 1870
1870The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870. - 1872
1872The Great Boston Fire of 1872. - 1880
1880A major earthquake strikes Zagreb and destroys many buildings, including Zagreb Cathedral. - 1881
1881Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco. - 1887
1887The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. - 1888
1888Jack the Ripper murders Mary Jane Kelly, his final victim in the Whitechapel murders. - 1900
1900Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.
XX century
- 1901
1901Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom), becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. - 1905
1905The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election. - 1906
1906Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. - 1907
1907The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. - 1913
1913The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people. - 1914
1914SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos. - 1917
1917The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper. - 1918
1918Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. - 1921
1921The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy. - 1923
1923In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch. - 1935
1935The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. - 1936
1936American fashion designer Ruth Harkness seeks and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; named Su Lin, he becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States. - 1937
1937Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai. - 1938
1938Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification. - 1940
1940Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile. - 1942
1942Battle of Stalingrad: German forces of the 6th Army under general Friedrich Paulus reach the river bank of the Volga, capturing 90% of the ruined city of Stalingrad and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets. - 1943
1943An agreement for the founding of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C. - 1945
1945Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea. - 1953
1953Cambodia gains independence from France. - 1960
1960Robert McNamara is named president of the Ford Motor Company, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly elected John F. Kennedy administration. - 1963
1963At a coal mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. - 1963
1963The Tsurumi rail accident on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama kills 162 people. - 1965
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. - 1965
1965A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. - 1967
1967Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy. - 1970
1970Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. - 1971
1971American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns. - 1979
1979Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled. - 1985
1985Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov. - 1989
1989Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin. - 1993
1993Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War. - 1994
1994The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered. - 1998
1998A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing. - 1998
1998Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. - 1999
1999TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board. - 2000
2000Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
XXI century
- 2004
2004Firefox 1.0 is released. - 2005
2005The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. - 2005
2005Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people. - 2011
2011The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST. - 2012
2012A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others. - 2012
2012At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo. - 2014
2014A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state. - 2020
2020Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. - 2023
2023U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
Best known
Born on November 9
Best known
Died on November 9
959Constantine VII
Byzantine emperor from 913 to 959
1034Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia
Duke of Bohemia from 1012 to 1033 (and briefly in 1034)
1187Emperor Gaozong of Song
Emperor of China from 1127 to 1162
1208Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon
Queen of Aragon from 1174 to 1196
1284Siger of Brabant
Belgian philosopher, c. 1240–1284
1312Otto III of Bavaria
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1305 to 1307
Holidays and observances
- Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
- Christian feast day: Benignus of Armagh
- Christian feast day: Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
- Christian feast day: Margery Kempe (Church of England)
- Christian feast day: Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)
- Christian feast day: Nectarios of Aegina
- Christian feast day: Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Virgin of Almudena (Madrid)
- Christian feast day: Vitonus
- Christian feast day: November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)
- Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
- Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Frequently asked questions
What happened on November 9?
75 documented historical events happened on November 9, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States. On the same day, in another year: Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on November 9?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on November 9, including Ed Wynn, Jean Monnet, Louisa E. Rhine. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on November 9?
117 people with a Wikipedia article died on November 9, including Constantine VII, Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia, Emperor Gaozong of Song. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on November 9?
16 observances are celebrated on November 9 around the world: Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan), Christian feast day: Benignus of Armagh, Christian feast day: Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day), Christian feast day: Margery Kempe (Church of England), Christian feast day: Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran), Christian feast day: Nectarios of Aegina. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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