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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.

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.

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Births

Up to 1900

955 – Gyeongjong of Korea (d. 981)
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)
1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
1664 – Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1723 – Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Prussian royal and composer (d. 1787)
1731 – Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer (d. 1806)
1787 – Johann Natterer, Austrian explorer and naturalist (d. 1843)
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1801 – Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor (d. 1874)
1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 – Thomas Bragg, American politician (d. 1872)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1825 – A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1829 – Peter Lumsden, British general (d. 1918)
1832 – Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
1841 – Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1855 – Alexandros Zaimis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian–American actress (d. 1934)
1871 – Florence Sabin, American anatomist (d. 1953)
1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 – Fritz Thyssen, German businessman (d. 1951)
1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
1876 – Ahn Changho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1877 – Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959)
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
1878 – An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1880 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
1882 – Roy E. Ayers, 11th Governor of Montana (d. 1955)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1883 – Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1888 – Jean Monnet, French businessman and statesman (d. 1979)
1892 – Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
1894 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (d. 1978)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Anthony Asquith, British movie director (d. 1968)
1903 – Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist (d. 1999)
1904 – Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal (d. 1945)
1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
1907 – Ko Takamoro, Japanese footballer (d. 1995)
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, co–founder of Taekwondo (d. 2002)
1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)
1918 – Thomas Ferebee, American Enola Gay bombardier (d. 2000)
1919 – Roger Brocksom, English engineer and soldier (d. 2001)
1919 – Eva Todor, Hungarian–Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin and white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1922 – Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Archbishop of Lima (d. 2000)
1923 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014)
1923 – James Schuyler, American poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
1924 – Joy Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1925 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
1925 – Alistair Horne, English journalist, biographer and historian (d. 2017)
1925 – Helmut Rohde, German politician (d. 2016)
1926 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1926 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (d. 2015)
1927 – Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (d. 2014)
1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
1929 – Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Russian composer
1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
1934 – Ronald Harwood, British movie producer and actor
1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player
1936 – Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
1936 – Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science populariser (d. 2019)
1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
1936 – Mary Travers, American singer (d. 2009)
1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
1937 – Clyde Wells, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
1939 – Björn Engholm, German politician
1941 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
1944 – Herbert Wimmer, German footballer
1944 – Phil May, English singer
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
1948 – Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
1948 – Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer and screenwriter
1948 – Jane Humphries, English economist, historian and academic

1951 – 1975

1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
1952 – Jack W. Szostak, British–American molecular biologist
1952 – Sherrod Brown, American politician and United States Senator from Ohio
1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician
1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian movie director
1956 – Lei Clijsters, Belgian footballer (d. 2009)
1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 – Frances O'Grady, British union leader
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German operatic baritone
1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
1961 – Jill Dando, English television presenter (d. 1999)
1961 – Jackie Kay, Scottish poet
1962 – Sergio Batista, Argentine footballer
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh operatic baritone
1965 – Daphne Guinness, English–Irish model and actress
1967 – Yoshiro Moriyama, Japanese footballer
1969 – Pepa, American rapper
1970 – Scarface, American rapper
1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
1970 – Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor, radio presenter and rock musician
1971 – Sabri Lamouchi, French football coach and manager
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 – Belén Esteban, Spanish journalist and television presenter
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
1975 – Gareth Malone, English choirmaster and broadcaster
1975 – Maria Ribeiro, Brazilian actress
1975 – Raphaël Enthoven, French philosophy teacher, radio host and television host

From 1976

1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
1978 – Olga Brusnikina, Russian synchronized swimmer
1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1979 – Caroline Flack, English television presenter
1980 – James Harper, English footballer
1980 – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Filipina television host and actress
1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
1981 – Termanology, American rapper
1982 – Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
1982 – Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
1983 – Gabriel Tamas, Romanian footballer
1984 – French Montana, Moroccan–American singer and rapper
1985 – Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 – Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1988 – Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
1988 – Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian model and singer
1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and male model
1990 – Frankie Jones, Welsh rhythmic gymnast
1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
1993 – Pete Dunne, English wrestler
1996 – Momo Hirai, Japanese singer
1999 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress, singer and YouTuber

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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)

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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)

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