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Today November 9th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
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 – The 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 – German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of political assassin Herschel Grynszpan, an act which is attributed to the beginning of Kristallnacht.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2008 – The three Bali bombers were executed for killing 202 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)
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)
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1818 – 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 and designer (d. 1960)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1885 – 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
1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, football manager
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
1960 – Joëlle Ursull, a Guadeloupean singer
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 – Sandra Pepa Denton, American musician (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, American music producer
1971 – David Duval, American golfer
1971 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1971 – Big Punisher, 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 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian Actress
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 Minnillo, Filipino television personality
1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
1983 – Jennifer Ayache, French singer (Superbus)
1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 – Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1984 – Se7en, South Korean singer
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
Deaths
959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1623 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 – Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1848 – Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
1881 – Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well. (b. 1819)
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim. (b. 1863)
1911 – Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1920 – Saint Nectarios, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pentapolis (b. 1846)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889)
1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
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)
1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
1952 – Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1957 – Peter O Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
1971 – Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881)
1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 – (Father) 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)
1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b. 1937)
2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English Football Player (b. 1947)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 – Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist (b. 1941)
Holidays and observances
Roman Catholicism – Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
Saint Vitonus
Cambodia – Independence Day (1953)
Pakistan – Allama Iqbal Day (1877)
Germany – November 9th is often called Germany s Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938, and 1989.
Europe – Inventor s Day – in honour of Hedy Lamarr s birthday
United States – World Freedom Day, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
Bolivia – Dia de los ñatitas
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