November 9
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November 9 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 1492 - Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
- 1729 - Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
- 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
- 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 (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
- 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.
- 1937 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
- 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 1967 - NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- 1989 - Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
- 1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
- 2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
[change] Births
- 1841 - Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. (1910)
- 1918 - Spiro Agnew, 39th American Vice President (d. 1996)
- 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
- 1936 - Bob Graham, American politician
- 1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian singer
[change] Deaths
- 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
- 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
- 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
- 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)