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This day in history: 9 November

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Key facts

405 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 9 November.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2023: U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.

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: November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Virgin of Almudena (Madrid)

Christian feast day: Vitonus

Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)

Flag Day (Azerbaijan)

Events

2023U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.

2020Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.

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.

2012At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.

2012A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.

2011The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.

2005Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

2005The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

2004Firefox 1.0 is released.

2000Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.

1999TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

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.

1998Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

1994The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.

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.

1989Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.

1985Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.

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

1971American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.

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.

1967Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.

1965A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.

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.

1963At a coal mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.

1963The Tsurumi rail accident on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama kills 162 people.

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.

1953Cambodia gains independence from France.

1945Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.

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.

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.

1940Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.

1938Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.

1937Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.

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.

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.

1923In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.

1921The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.

1918Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.

1917The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.

1914SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.

Born on this day

1999Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer

1996Momo Hirai, Japanese dancer and singer

1995Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster (died 2025)

1995Finn Cole, English actor

1994Lyrica Okano, American actress

1993Pete Dunne, English wrestler

1990Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer

1989Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer

1988Lio Tipton, American actor and model

1988Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer

1986Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player

1985Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer

1984Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

1984French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper

1984Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor

1983Michael Turner, English footballer

1983Rob Elloway, German rugby player

1983Ted Potter Jr., American golfer

1982Boaz Myhill, American-Welsh footballer

1982Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler

1981Eyedea, American rapper and producer (died 2010)

1981Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer

1981Kane Waselenchuk, Canadian racquetball player

1980Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder

1980Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress

1979Adam Dunn, American baseball player

1979Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model (died 2020)

1979Dave Bush, American baseball player

1979Martin Taylor, English footballer

1978Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer

1978Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1977Chris Morgan, English footballer and manager

1977Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer

1976Tochiazuma Daisuke, Japanese sumo wrestler

1975Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor

1975Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer

1974Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer

1974Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress

1973Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer

1973Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director

Died on this day

2024Bobby Allison, American race car driver and businessman (born 1937)

2024Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (born 1924)

2024Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (born 1943)

2024Lou Donaldson, American saxophonist (born 1926)

2023Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (born 1950)

2021Max Cleland, American politician (born 1942)

2017Chuck Mosley, American singer songwriter (born 1959)

2017Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (born 1982)

2016Greg Ballard, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)

2015Andy White, Scottish drummer (born 1930)

2015Byron Krieger, American fencer (born 1920)

2015Carol Doda, American actress and dancer (born 1937)

2015Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1930)

2015Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (born 1986)

2014Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (born 1943)

2014Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor and author (born 1954)

2014Orlando Thomas, American football player (born 1972)

2014R. A. Montgomery, American author and publisher (born 1936)

2014Rubén Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (born 1961)

2014Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, Qatari prince (born 1966)

2013Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-American biologist and academic (born 1922)

2013Grethe Rytter Hasle, Norwegian biologist and academic (born 1920)

2013Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (born 1947)

2013Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American saxophonist (born 1936)

2013Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist (born 1954)

2013Steve Prescott, English rugby player (born 1973)

2012James L. Stone, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1922)

2012Joseph D. Early, American soldier and politician (born 1933)

2012Milan Čič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (born 1932)

2012Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1905)

Quote of the day

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca

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