On this day in History - Nov. 9
- 0694 - Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems, and sentences all Jews to slavery.
- 0959 - Constantine VII dies (b.0905). Byzantine Emperor
- 1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China dies (b. 1107)
- 1208 - Sancha of Castile dies (b. 1155). Queeen of Alfonso II of Aragon
- 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1414 - Albert III was born (d. 1486). Margrave of Brandenburg.
- 1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
- 1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon dies (b. 1452)
- 1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
- 1522 - Martin Chemnitz was born (d. 1586). German theologian
- 1623 - William Camden dies (b. 1551). English historian.
- 1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand dies. Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
- 1664 - Henry Wharton was born (d. 1695). English writer
- 1670 - Pedro Mascarenhas was born (d. 1745). Captain-General of Índia
- 1697 - Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
- 1699 - Hortense Mancini dies (b. 1646). Mistress of Charles II, King of England.
- 1717 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born (d. 1768). German archaeologist.
- 1721 - Mark Akenside was born (d. 1770). English poet and physician.
- 1729 - Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville, ending a 2-year war.
- 1731 - Benjamin Banneker was born (d. 1806). American scientist : mathematician, clockmaker, surveyor, almanac author, and astronomer.
- 1732 - Julie de Lespinasse was born (d. 1776). French aristocrat, hostess and writer.
- 1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- 1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer dies (b. 1692). Dutch composer.
- 1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll dies. Scottish politician
- 1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi dies (b. 1720). Italian artist.
- 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire marking Napoleon's rise to power and the end of the French Revolution.
- 1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy was born (d. 1837). American abolitionist.
- 1802 - Thomas Girtin dies (b. 1775). English artist.
- 1809 - Paul Sandby dies (b. 1725). English cartographer.
- 1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck was born (d. 1887). German surgeon.
- 1812 - Paul Abadie was born. French master builder who renovated the Notre Dame)
- 1818 (N. S.) - Ivan Turgenev was born (d. 1883). Russian writer ( Fathers and Sons)
- 1825 - A.P. Hill was born (d. 1865). American Confederate general.
- 1832 - Émile Gaboriau was born (d. 1873). French writer, novelist and journalist who is best known as the father of the roman policier (detective novel). He has been described as the Edgar Allan Poe of France.
- 1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau was born (d. 1898). French Canadian lawyer and politician.
- 1848 - Robert Blum dies executed in Vienna (b. 1810). German politician and member of the National Assembly.
- 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 - Stanford White was born (d. 1906). American architect of Madison Square Garden and Washington Arch.
- 1861 - The first documented football match in Canada was played at University College, University of Toronto.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George McClellan was removed.
- 1869 - Marie Dressler was born (d. 1934). Canadian actress.
- 1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872 that destroyed nearly 800 buildings.
- 1872 - Bohdan Lepky was born (d. 1941). Ukrainian writer and poet.
- 1873 - Otfrid Foerster was born (d. 1941). German neurologist.
- 1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee was born (d. 1954). American botanist.
- 1877 - Enrico De Nicola was born (d. 1959). Italian politician.
- 1877 - Allama Iqbal was born (d. 1938). Indian philosopher and poet.
- 1879 - Milan Sufflay was born (d. 18 Feb 1931). Croatian politician.
- 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was born (d.1960). English architect.
- 1881 - Edwin Drake dies. Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
- 1883 - Edna May Oliver was born (d. 1942). American actress.
- 1885 - Aureliano Pertile was born (d. 1952). Italian tenor.
- 1885 (N.S.) - Velimir Khlebnikov was born (d. 1922). Russian writer.
- 1885 - Hermann Weyl was born (d. 1955). German mathematician.
- 1885 - Theodor Kaluza was born (d. 1954). German scientist.
- 1886 - Ed Wynn was born (d. 1966). American Emmy Award-winning actor.
- 1886 - S. O. Davies was born (d. 1972). Welsh politician.
- 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
- 1888 - Jean Monnet was born (d. 1979). French economist, internationalist.
- 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly dies assassinated (b. 1863). Irish murder victim.
- 1889 - D. Manuel II was born. Last King of Portugal.
- 1889 - Ruy Barbosa escreve artigo intitulado Plano contra a Pátria que infla os ânimos em direção à Proclamação da República
- 1892 - Mabel Normand was born (d. 1930). American actress.
- 1895 - Mae Marsh was born (d. 1968). American actress.
- 1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was born (d. 1978). British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1902 - Anthony Asquith was born (d. 1968). British film director.
- 1904 - Viktor Brack was born (d. 1948). Nazi physician.
- 1905 - Erika Mann was born (d. 1969). German writer.
- 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).
- 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt departed for Panama aboard the battleship Louisiana, on the first official foreign trip in history by a U.S. president.
- 1906 - Arthur Rudolph was born (d. 1996). German rocket engineer.
- 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1911 - Dinah Silveira de Queiroz was born (d. 1982). Brazilian writer.
- 1911 - Howard Pyle dies (b. 1853). American author and illustrator.
- 1911 - George Claude of France applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.
- 1911 - Tabish Dehlvi was born (d. 2004). Pakistani poet.
- 1913 - Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiessler) was born (d. 2000). Austrian-born American actress.
- 1915 - Carl Fallberg was born (d. 1996). American cartoonist.
- 1915 - André François was born (d. 2005). French cartoonist.
- 1915 - Sargent Shriver was born. U.S. Vice Presidential candidate.
- 1917 - Leninists dissolve the Workers Soviets in the People's Commisariat of Posts and Telegraphs in 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.
- 1918 - Choi Hong Hi was born (d. 2002). Founder of Taekwon-Do.
- 1918 - Spiro Agnew was born (d. 1996). 39th Vice President of the United States.
- 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire dies (b. 1880). French poet.
- 1919 - Eduard Müller dies (b. 1848). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
- 1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
- 1921 - Viktor Chukarin was born (d. 1984). Soviet gymnast.
- 1921 - Pierrette Alarie was born. Canadian soprano
- 1922 - Raymond Devos was born (d. 2006). French humorist.
- 1922 - Imre Lakatos was born (d. 1974). Hungarian philosopher.
- 1923 - Dorothy Dandridge was born (d. 1965). American actress.
- 1923 - Alice Coachman was born. American athlete
- 1923 - In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
- 1923 - The Beer Hall Putsch led by Adolf Hitler ended after 16 Nazis were killed on a march toward the Marienplatz in the centre of Munich, Germany.
- 1923 - Alice Coachman, the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, was born in Albany, Georgia.
- 1924 - Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in U.S., founded in Chicago
- 1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge dies (b. 1850). American Senator
- 1925 - Sir Alistair Horne was born. British historian.
- 1928 - Anne Sexton was born (d. 1974). American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.
- 1929 - Imre Kertész was born. Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 2002.
- 1929 - Marc Favreau was born (d. 2005). Québécois humorist and actor.
- 1931 - Whitey Herzog was born. Major League Baseball player and manager
- 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
- 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson was born. Swedish politician
- 1934 - Carl Sagan was born (d. 1996). American astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- 1935 - The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 1935 - Bob Gibson was born. American baseball player.
- 1936 - Mikhail Tal was born (d. 1992). Latvian chess player.
- 1936 - Daniel Robert Graham was born. Governor of Florida
- 1936 - Mary Travers was born. American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
- 1937 - Clyde Wells was born. Canadian politician and judge, premier of Newfoundland
- 1937 - Roger McGough was born. English performance poet ("The Scaffold")
- 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald dies (b. 1866). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
- 1938 - Beginning on this night, called Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” or “Night of Broken Glass”), some 48 hours of Nazi-orchestrated anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany and Austria, resulting in the destruction and vandalizing of synagogues and Jewish businesses, along with the deaths of at least 91 Jews.
- 1938 - Vasily Blyukher dies (b. 1889). Soviet military commander.
- 1939 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
- 1939 - Hitler survives attempted murder by explosion, the man plotting is sent to concentration camp.
- 1939 - Paul Cameron was born. American psychologist
- 1940 - Premiere of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez in Barcelona, Spain.
- 1940 - Neville Chamberlain dies (b. 1869). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre dies (b. 1876). Portuguese Catholic prelate.
- 1941 - Carlos Carvalhas was born. Portuguese politician (Poruguese Comunist Party - PCP)
- 1941 - Tom Fogerty was born (d. 1990). American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 1942 - Edna May Oliver dies (b. 1883). American actress.
- 1942 - Tom Weiskopf was born. American golfer who won the British Open in 1973
- 1943 - The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was created by a 44-nation agreement.
- 1944 - Torquato Neto was born. Brazilian composer.
- 1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize.
- 1944 - Frank Marshall dies (b. 1877). American chess player.
- 1945 - Canada joins to United Nations.
- 1946 - Links, Incorporated, an exclusive non-profit organization is founded by two African American women in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1947 - Robert David Hall was born. American actor.
- 1948 - Henrik S. Järrel was born. Swedish politician.
- 1948 - Bille August was born. Danish film and television director.
- 1948 - Michel Pagliaro was born. Quebec rock singer.
- 1951 - Osvaldo Coggiola was born. Argentine historian. Teacher of Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- 1951 - Lou Ferrigno was born. Italian bodybuilder and actor
- 1951 - Sigmund Romberg dies (b. 1887). Hungarian-born composer.
- 1952 - Chaim Weizmann dies (b. 1874). First President of Israel
- 1952 - Philip Murray dies (b. 1886). 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- 1953 - Dylan Thomas dies (b. 1914). Welsh poet and author, whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos.
- 1953 - Gaétan Hart was born. Canadian boxer
- 1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud dies (b. 1880). First King of Saudi Arabia
- 1955 - Karen Dotrice was born. British actress
- 1955 - Fernando Meirelles was born. Brazilian film director
- 1955 - Bob Nault was born. French Canadian politician
- 1957 - Peter O'Connor dies (b. 1872). Irish athlete.
- 1959 - Thomas Quasthoff was born. German bass-baritone
- 1959 - Tony Slattery was born. British actor and comedian.
- 1959 - Nick Hamilton was born. American wrestling referee
- 1959 - Sito Pons was born. Spanish motorbike racer
- 1960 - Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1960 - Andreas Brehme was born. German football player.
- 1961 - Jill Dando was born (d. 1999). British television presenter
- 1961 - Neil A. Armstrong records a world record speed in a jet plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15.
- 1963 - At Miike in Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 1963 - Fulvio Fantoni was born. Italian bridge player
- 1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill was born. American actor
- 1964 - Cecília Meireles dies (b. 7 Nov 1901). Brazilian poetess.
- 1964 - Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
- 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.
- 1965 - Bryn Terfel was born. Welsh baritone
- 1965 - Teryl Rothery was born. Canadian actress
- 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. John Lennon was on the cover.
- 1967 - French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline make their debut in the pages of Pilote magazine.
- 1967 - Ricky Otto was born. English footballer
- 1967 - Tomás Alcaide dies. Portuguese tenor.
- 1968 - Início simbólico das obras da Ponte Rio-Niterói.
- 1968 - Nazzareno Carusi was born. Italian pianist
- 1969 - 78 Native Americans take over Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA
- 1969 - Sandy Denton was born. American musician ("Pepa" of Salt-N-Pepa)
- 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- 1970 - Chris Jericho was born. American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Scarface was born. American rapper
- 1970 - Susan Tedeschi was born. American musician
- 1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer) was born. American Hip Hop Producer
- 1970 - Charles de Gaulle dies (b. 1890). President of France
- 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.
- 1971 - David Duval was born. American Golfer and former #1 in the world.
- 1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer) was born. American Hip Hop Producer
- 1971 - Melinda Kinnaman was born. Swedish actress
- 1971 - Big Punisher, real name Christopher Rios, was born (d. 2000). American rapper.
- 1971 - Maude Fealy dies (b. 1881). American actor.
- 1972 - Corin Tucker was born. American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
- 1972 - Doug Russell was born. American radio personality
- 1972 - Eric Dane was born. American actor
- 1972 - Bones discovered by the Leakey family of anthropologists set human origins 1 million years earlier than previously determined.
- 1973 - Nick Lachey was born. American pop singer.
- 1973 - Zisis Vryzas was born. Greek footballer.
- 1973 - Alyson Court was born. Canadian actress.
- 1974 - Alessandro Del Piero was born. Italian football player.
- 1974 - Joe C. was born (d. 2000). American rapper.
- 1974 - Uncle Kracker was born. American singer and rapper.
- 1976 - Lúcia Moniz was born. Portuguese singer.
- 1976 - Paul W. Neville was born. American author.
- 1977 - Fred Haney dies (b. 1898). American baseball player.
- 1978 - Steven Lopez was born. American taekwondo martial artist
- 1978 - Todd Self was born. American baseball player
- 1979 - Caroline Flack was born. British television presenter
- 1979 - Adam Dunn was born. American baseball player
- 1979 - Bruno Miguel de Almeida Lima Gomes Bernardo (Jardel). Portuguese futsal player
- 1979 - Martin Taylor was born. English football player.
- 1979 - Julio Barrenechea dies (b. 13 Mar 1910). Chilean poet.
- 1980 - Dominique Maltais was born. Quebec snowboarder
- 1980 - James Harper was born. English footballer
- 1980 - Vanessa Minnillo was born. American television personality
- 1980 - Victor Sen Yung dies (b. 1915). American actor.
- 1981 - Luke Covell was born. Australian/New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 - Scottie Thompson was born. American actress
- 1983 - Altemar Dutra dies (b. 1940). Brazilian singer.
- 1983 - Alfred Heineken, beer brewer from Amsterdam, was kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million.
- 1984 - District 925 workers at Equitable Life Assurance win first union contract in insurance industry
- 1984 - Delta Goodrem was born. Australian singer, songwriter and actress
- 1984 - SE7EN was born. South Korean singer
- 1984 - Joel Zumaya was born. American baseball player
- 1984 - Chris Wright was born. Co-founder of Snap Family Skateboard Company
- 1984 - Roldán Rodríguez was born. Spanish racing driver
- 1985 - USSR A new chess phenomenom emerged on the world stage when World chess master Anatoly Karpov lost his title to dissident Soviet Garry Kasparov who becomes the youngest world chess champion.
- 1986 - Romania: Ellection of Patriarch Teoctist Arapasu/Theoctis
- 1986 - Eleni Andriola was born. Greek gymnast
- 1988 - Father David Bauer dies (b. 1924). Professional ice hockey player and builder.
- 1988 - John N. Mitchell dies (b. 1913). United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal
- 1988 - Gary Kasparov became world chess champion after beating Anatoly Karpov, the titleholder for 10 years, in Moscow.
- 1988 - Nikki Blonsky was born. American actress
- 1989 - East Germany opened it borders to West Germany and allowed thousands of its citizens to pass freely through the Berlin Wall. The next day, East German troops began dismantling the wall, and less than a year later, East Germany and West Germany were formally reunited.
- 1989 - Turgut Ozal assumes the presidency of Turkey.
- 1990 - New democratic constitution issued in Nepal.
- 1990 - Jorge Segurado dies (b. 1898). Portuguese painter and architect.
- 1991 - Yves Montand dies (b. 1921). French actor.
- 1993 - Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1993 - Maya Ritter was born. Canadian actress.
- 1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
- 1995 - Bill Watterson, cartoonist, announces his retirement in a brief letter to newspaper editors.
- 1996 - Evander Holyfield scored a technical knockout of Mike Tyson to win the heavyweight boxing championship for a third time.
- 1997 - BBC News 24 begins broadcasting at 17:30 GMT.
- 1997 - Helenio Herrera dies (b. 1910). French football player and coach
- 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.
- 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 1998 - Ursula Reit dies (b. 1914). German actress.
- 1999 - TAESA Flight 725, went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident
- 2000 - Hugh Paddick dies (b. 1915). British actor.
- 2001 - Giovanni Leone dies. President of Italy (1971-1978).
- 2001 - Niels Jannasch dies (b. 1924). Canadian historian and museum curator.
- 2002 - Merlin Santana dies (b. 1976). American actor.
- 2002 - William Schutz dies. Psychologist
- 2003 - Art Carney dies (b. 1918). American actor
- 2003 - Binod Bihari Verma dies (b. 1937). Maithili literateur.
- 2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford dies (b. 1912). English painter.
- 2003 - During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
- 2003 - Rebel Youth Network Organizing Committee formed in Toronto.
- 2004 - Iris Chang dies (b. 1968). American author.
- 2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
- 2004 - John Ashcroft and Don Evans resign their posts as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively.
- 2004 - Halo 2 is released by the Microsoft Corporation. The sci-fi action shooter smashes entertainment records, grossing $125 Million on its opening day.
- 2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people.
- 2005 - K. R. Narayanan dies (b. 1921). President of India.
- 2006 - Ed Bradley dies (b. 1941). American journalist.
- 2006 - Markus Wolf dies (b. 1923). East German Intelligence Director.
- Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day of the Roman Catholic Church)
- November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938 and 1989.
- Feast day of St. Theodore the Recruit, St. Vitonus or Vanne, and St. Benignus or Benen.
- Europe - Inventor's Day - in honor of Hedy Lamarr's birthday
- Pakistan - Allama Iqbal Day (1877)
- International Day against Fascism and Anti-Semitism to commemorate the pogrom against the Jews, started by Nazis on this day (Kristallnacht), 1938.
- International - Diwali
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