November 9

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining.

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Events

• 694 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems, and sentences all Jews to slavery.
• 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
• 1492 - Peace of Etaples between Henry VII & Charles VIII.
• 1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
• 1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles.
• 1541 - Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.
• 1729 - Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
• 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
• 1848 - Robert Blum, German revolutionary, 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.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George McClellan was removed.
• 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).
• 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
• 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.
• 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
• 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.
• 1963 - At Miike in Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
• 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 from Cape Kennedy.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States to not hear a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
• 1971 - John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.
• 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
• 1993 - Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
• 1997 - Mike Lookinland (of The Brady Bunch fame) is charged with drunk driving in St. George, Utah.
• 1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
• 2002 - Television and film actor Merlin Santana is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car.
• 2003 - A total lunar eclipse is seen in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia.
• 2003 - During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.

Births

• 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (d. 1586)
• 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d. 1806)
• 1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
• 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (d. 1883)
• 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
• 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
• 1853 - Stanford White, architect (d. 1906)
• 1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (d. 1934)
• 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
• 1877 - Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet (d. 1938)
• 1879 - Milan Sufflay, Croat politician (d. 1931)
• 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (d. 1960)
• 1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (d. 1942)
• 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, writer (d. 1922)
• 1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (d. 1955)
• 1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (d. 1966)
• 1889 - Jean Monnet, internationalist (d. 1979)
• 1892 - Mabel Normand, silent film actress (d. 1930)
• 1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
• 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)
• 1915 - Sargent Shriver, former candidate for Vice President of the United States, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy
• 1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (d. 1965)
• 1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (d. 1974)
• 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
• 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
• 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (d. 1996)
• 1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1936 - Daniel Robert Graham (Bob Graham), Florida Governor- 1979-1987, U.S. Senator from Florida- 1987-2004
• 1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
• 1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician, "Creedence Clearwater Revival"

(d. 1990)

• 1951 - Lou Ferrigno, Bodybuilder and Actor The Incredible Hulk
• 1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
• 1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German bass-baritone
• 1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor/comedian
• 1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
• 1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)
• 1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, footballer
• 1978 - Sisqo, rap music singer
• 1978 - Ezequiel Santamaria, Tennis Player
• 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, actress

Deaths

• 1848 - Robert Blum, German politician and member of the National Assembly (executed)
• 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
• 1911 - Howard Pyle, author
• 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer
• 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, another Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress
• 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
• 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, chemist, statesman and first President of Israel
• 1953 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
• 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
• 1988 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal.
• 1991 - Yves Montand, actor
• 2002 - Heinrich Schiemann, TV anchor
• 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
• 2003 - Art Carney, American actor
• 2004 - Iris Chang, author (b. 1968)

Holidays and observances

• Independence Day in Cambodia (1953)
• Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, a feast
• November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938 and 1989.
• The British neo-Nazi "November 9th Society" takes its name from the Munich Beer Hall Putsch on this day.

Recorded this day

• 1897 "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) J. W. Myers
• 1900 "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani) cornet Herbert L. Clarke
• 1901 "I'm Tired" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) S. H. Dudley
• 1901 "Baby Mine" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Leo Friedman) S. H. Dudley
• 1901 "Tact" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) S. H. Dudley
• 1904 "Just For The Sake Of Society" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Kerry Mills) James McCool
• 1905 "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" (w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt) Billy Murray
• 1905 "Good-bye Flo" (w.m. George M. Cohan) Billy Murray & Haydn Quartette
• 1906 "He's A Cousin Of Mine" (w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein) Clarice Vance
• 1906 "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" (w.m. Harry Hoyt) Clarice Vance
• 1906 "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" (w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard) Helen Trix
• 1927 "Forgive Me" (w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager) Grace Quine
• 1927 "Maggie McGee" (Rule, Wallis) Grace Quine
• 1932 "I Could Make A Good Living At That" (Cottrell, Lawton) George Formby
• 1932 "Let’s All Go To Reno" (Cottrell) George Formby
• 1932 "How Deep Is The Ocean?" (w.m. Irving Berlin) Elsie Carlisle Chenil Dance Orchestra
• 1932 "I've Got The World On A String" (w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen) Cab Calloway & his Orchestra
• 1933 "This Is Romance" (w. Edward Heyman m. Duke Vernon) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "And So Goodbye" (w.m. Allie Wrubel) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "Hand In Hand" (Pola-Vienna) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "Sing, Gipsy, Sing" (Winn, Marlen) Anona Winn
• 1934 "June In January" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "Love Is Just Around The Corner" (w. Leo Robin m. Lewis E. Gensler) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "With Every Breath I Take" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "Maybe I'm Wrong Again" (Bennett, Trent) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1938 "You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)" (w.m. Gene Autry) Dick Todd & Three Reasons Leonard Joy
• 1938 "Buck Dance Rhythm" (Gaillard) Slim And Slam
• 1938 "Boogie Woogie" (m. Clarence "Pine Top" Smith) Count Basie
• 1939 "Do I Love You?" (w.m. Cole Porter) Helen Forrest Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Blacking Out The Flat" (Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch) Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch
• 1940 "The Golden Wedding" (m. Gabriel-Marie) Woody Herman & his Orchestra
• 1943 "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" (w. Frank Loesser m. Arthur Schwartz) Hildegarde
• 1943 "I'll Be Seeing You" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain) Hildegarde
• 1944 "It Could Happen To You" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Love, Here Is My Heart" (w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Some Other Time" (w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Leonard Bernstein) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1945 "Over The Rainbow" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Walking My Baby Back Home" (w.m. Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Yesterdays" (w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Georgia On My Mind" (w. Stuart Gorrell m. Hoagy Carmichael) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1946 "It's The Same Old Dream" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Artie Shaw
• 1946 "I Believe" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Art Shaw
• 1946 "When You're Around" (Artie Shaw, Johnny Lehman) Lillian Lane Art Shaw & his Orchestra
• 1946 "Who?" (w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern) Judy Garland O/Lennie Hayton
• 1947 "Body And Soul" (w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. John W. Green) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
• 1947 "I'm Glad There Is You" (w. Paul Medeira m. Jimmy Dorsey) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
• 1948 "More Beer!" (Julian H. Miller) Ames Brothers
• 1948 "You, You, You Are The One" (w. Milton Leeds & Fred Wise m. Tetos Demey) Ames Brothers
• 1949 "It Isn't Fair" (w. Richard Himber m. Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato) Don Cornell Sammy Kaye & his "Swing & Sway" Orchestra
• 1951 "It Had To Be You" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "Makin' Whoopee" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day & Danny Thomas O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "My Buddy" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1954 "It Must Be So" (w.m. Peggy Lee) Peggy Lee O/Sy Oliver
• 1955 "Jamaica Farewell" (w.m. Lord Burgess) Harry Belafonte
• 1963 "I Believe" (w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman) Bachelors
• 1987 "Children Will Listen" (w.m. Stephen Sondheim) Bernadette Peters O/Paul Gemignani

November 8 - November 10 - October 9 - December 9 -- listing of all days

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