Notable Historical Events on November 9th
November 9th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
694 |
Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery |
1282 |
Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth |
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 (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France) |
1494 |
Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence |
1520 |
Height of the Stockholm Bloodbath - King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden executes Swedish nobles |
1526 |
Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg |
1541 |
Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London |
1569 |
Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland |
1580 |
Spanish troops lands in Ireland |
1620 |
After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod) |
1673 |
British king Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury |
1681 |
Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion |
1697 |
Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia. |
1720 |
Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire |
1729 |
Spain, France & Britain sign 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. |
1794 |
Russian troops occupy Warsaw |
1799 |
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France |
1821 |
1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia |
1842 |
The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City |
1848 |
Post office at Clay & Pike opens |
1848 |
Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), 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. |
1853 |
Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun |
1854 |
Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres |
1857 |
Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published |
1858 |
1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra |
1861 |
1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto) |
1861 |
Battle of Piketon, Ky |
1862 |
US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him |
1864 |
1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country |
1864 |
Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea" |
1872 |
The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed |
1877 |
American Chemical Society chartered in NY |
1885 |
Opera "Ermine," premieres in London |
1888 |
Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed |
1900 |
China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration |
1904 |
1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes |
1905 |
Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages |
1906 |
Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama) |
1907 |
Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds |
1907 |
The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. |
1912 |
Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest |
1913 |
Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes |
1914 |
Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific |
1915 |
Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 |
1918 |
Bavaria proclaims itself a republic |
1918 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I |
1918 |
Republic Germany proclaimed |
1921 |
Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini |
1922 |
Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality) |
1923 |
Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees |
1924 |
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) |
1925 |
German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS) |
1925 |
Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin |
1927 |
Giant Panda discovered, China |
1927 |
Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors |
1930 |
1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama |
1932 |
Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 |
1932 |
Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60. |
1935 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms |
1936 |
Albanian government of Frasheri falls |
1937 |
Japanese army conquers Shanghai |
1937 |
St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP |
1938 |
Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day |
1938 |
Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. |
1939 |
"Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres |
1939 |
Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron) |
1939 |
Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents |
1941 |
Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster |
1942 |
German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier |
1942 |
Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944 |
Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize |
1944 |
Walcheren purged of nazi troops |
1946 |
Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze |
1949 |
Costa Rica adopts Constitution |
1950 |
Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year |
1950 |
Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year |
1950 |
White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930 |
1953 |
Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union |
1953 |
KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws |
1955 |
Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC |
1955 |
NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca |
1955 |
UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics |
1956 |
Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ |
1961 |
PGA eliminates caucasians only rule |
1961 |
Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC |
1961 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m |
1961 |
The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude |
1962 |
Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
"Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances |
1963 |
450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan) |
1964 |
"Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs |
1964 |
Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan |
1965 |
1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis |
1965 |
Hurricane hits north east US/Canada |
1965 |
Willie Mays named NL MVP |
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. |
1966 |
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London |
1966 |
"Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs |
1966 |
Oakland Coliseum Arena opens |
1967 |
1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module |
1967 |
Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon |
1967 |
The unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit |
1968 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting led a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland |
1970 |
Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins |
1970 |
The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded by Michael Hurley |
1971 |
David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London |
1971 |
John List kills family & moves to Colorado |
1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1973 |
Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) |
1973 |
Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support |
1973 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo" album |
1976 |
Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career |
1976 |
UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa |
1977 |
Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP |
1978 |
NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions |
1980 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran |
1980 |
Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1982 |
Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously |
1982 |
Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time |
1983 |
Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped |
1983 |
Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center |
1984 |
1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B |
1984 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1984 |
Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43 |
1984 |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed |
1985 |
"News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1985 |
Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22 |
1985 |
Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba |
1985 |
Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed |
1986 |
Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1986 |
Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore |
1988 |
"Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs |
1988 |
MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7) |
1989 |
East Berlin opens its borders |
1990 |
Tanzania government of Malecela forms |
1990 |
New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal. |
1991 |
Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts |
1991 |
Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power |
1992 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI) |
1992 |
Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco" |
1993 |
"Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances |
1993 |
Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died |
1993 |
Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing. |
1994 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka |
1994 |
The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered. |
1995 |
"Danny Gans on Broadway" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC |
1997 |
"Cherry Orchard," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1997 |
"Scarlet Pimpernel," opens at Minskoff Theater NYC |
1997 |
Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship |
1997 |
Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup |
1997 |
Toray Japan Queens Cup |
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. |
2004 |
Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios |
2004 |
38th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride & Keith Urban wins |
2005 |
Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people. |
2005 |
The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
2009 |
Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker's main event. |
2011 |
45th Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins |
2011 |
Shakira is honoured as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year |
2012 |
25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma |
2012 |
An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people |
2013 |
8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia |
2013 |
María Gabriela Isler, a 25yo Venezuelan, is crowned Miss Universe 2013 |
2014 |
United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS) |
2014 |
Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance |
2014 |
Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak |
2014 |
Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption |
2016 |
Marco Rubio Wins Re-election in Florida Senate Race |
2016 |
Tammy Duckworth Unseats Mark Kirk in Illinois Senate Race |
2016 |
California votes to legalize pot |
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