November 9
November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 52 days remaining.
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.
1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium .
1997 - BBC News 24 begins broadcasting at 17:30 GMT.
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.
2003 - During the holy month of Ramadan , a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , kills 17 people.
2004 - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer 's biggest competitor.
2004 - The Xbox game Halo 2 is released, bringing in US$75 million from pre-orders alone.
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 )
1905 - Erika Mann , oldest daughter of Thomas Mann (d. 1969 )
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 1970 - Chris Jericho , professional wrestler
1970 - Susan Tedeschi , blues musician
1972 - Corin Tucker , Lead singer of Portland, Oregon-based punk band Sleater-Kinney
1974 - Alessandro Del Piero , footballer
1978 - Sisqó , R&B singer of group Dru Hill and actor
1978 - Ezequiel Santamaria , Tennis Player
1984 - Delta Goodrem , Australian singer, songwriter, actress
Deaths
959 - Emperor Constantine VII of the Byzantine Empire (b. 905 )
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 , American author and illustrator (b. 1853 )
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet (b. 1880 )
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866 )
1940 - Neville Chamberlain , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869 )
1942 - Edna May Oliver , actress (b. 1883 )
1951 - Sigmund Romberg , Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887 )
1952 - Chaim Weizmann , first President of Israel (b. 1874 )
1953 - Dylan Thomas , Welsh poet and author (b. 1914 )
1970 - Charles de Gaulle , President of France (b. 1890 )
1988 - John N. Mitchell , United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913 )
1991 - Yves Montand , French actor (b. 1921 )
2002 - Heinrich Schiemann , TV anchor
2002 - William Schutz , psychologist
2003 - Art Carney , American actor (b. 1918 )
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford , surrealist painter (b. 1912 )
2004 - Iris Chang , American author (b. 1968 )
Holidays and observances
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. Lău 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
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