Historical Events on November 9

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• 694 Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims/sentenced to slavery
• 1282 Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragon
• 1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf

• 1330 Battle of Posada, Wallachian voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
• 1494 Piero the Unfortunate of the de' Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state

• 1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg
• 1569 Catholic uprising under the Dukes of Northumberland & Westmoreland
• 1580 Spanish troops land in Ireland

• 1681 Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
• 1697 Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
• 1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
• 1729 Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
• 1764 Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
• 1794 Russian troops occupy Warsaw

• 1811 Karol Kurpiński's opera "Lucifer's Palace" premieres at the Warsaw Opera

• 1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
• 1842 The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
• 1848 Post office at Clay & Pike opens, 1st in San Francisco
• 1848 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is 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.
• 1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
• 1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
• 1861 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)

• 1864 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, British Columbia to a foreign country
• 1864 Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
• 1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
• 1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
• 1878 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Leopold Damrosch; the group competes with the New York Philharmonic, until merging in 1928
• 1885 Edward Jakobowski's opera "Ermine" premieres in London at the Comedy Theatre
• 1888 Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
• 1900 China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
• 1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
• 1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages

• 1907 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds

• 1912 Ferenc Molnàr's play "Farkas" premieres in Budapest
• 1912 Ottoman garrison surrenders Thessaloniki / Salonika to the Greek army (OS Oct 27)
• 1913 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
• 1914 Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific
• 1916 Ammunitions ship explodes at Bakaritsa harbour, near Archangel, Soviet Union, approx. 600 killed, 800 injured (OS 26 Oct)

• 1918 Following the collapse of Germany in World War I, the Weimar Republic of Germany is proclaimed

• 1925 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)

• 1927 Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars and motors
• 1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
• 1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
• 1932 Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
• 1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
• 1936 Albanian government of Frasheri falls
• 1936 American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China - becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US
• 1937 Japanese army conquers Shanghai
• 1937 St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
• 1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Li'l Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day
• 1938 Kristallnacht begins: pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria - first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins
• 1939 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to American Ernest Lawrence for his invention of the cyclotron

• 1939 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 British agents
• 1941 Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen and Bishop of Münster
• 1942 German occupiers install Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
• 1942 Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
• 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
• 1944 Walcheren purged of Nazi troops

• 1949 Costa Rica adopts Constitution
• 1950 Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
• 1950 Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
• 1950 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
• 1953 Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from France, within the French Union
• 1953 KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
• 1955 Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain" premieres in NYC
• 1955 NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
• 1955 UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics

• 1958 British Petroleum surveyors flying over Libyan desert observe wreck of WWII bomber, later identified as the lost 'Lady Be Good' [1]
• 1961 Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" premieres in NYC
• 1961 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule

• 1961 The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1963 Coal-dust explosion and the resulting buildup of carbon monoxide kills 458 at Mitsui Miike Coal Mine in Omuta, Japan
• 1963 Tsurumi rail accident on Tōkaidō Main Line, two passenger trains collide with derailed freight train, killing 162 people. in Yokohama, Japan

• 1965 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
• 1965 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
• 1965 Jay DeFeo's monumental painting "The Rose" (1958-66), layered with nearly two thousand pounds of paint removed from the artist's San Francisco apartment [1]
• 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.

• 1966 Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
• 1967 Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
• 1967 The 1st unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit

• 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1969 "Bridge over Troubled Water" single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel
• 1970 Comedy troupe "The Goodies" make their television debut on the BBC
• 1970 The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded by Michael Hurley
• 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
• 1970 William Grant Still's Symphony No. 5 ("Western Hemisphere"), premiere performance, by the Oberlin College Orchestra led by Robert Baustian
• 1971 David Storey's "Changing Room" premieres in London
• 1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado
• 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
• 1973 Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
• 1976 Oakland A's release Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame baseball career
• 1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
• 1977 Cincinnati Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
• 1978 North American Soccer League (NASL) realigns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
• 1979 False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly

• 1982 Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously

• 1983 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
• 1983 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center

• 1984 Most shots in a NY Islander game (88 - Isles 45, NY Rangers 43)
• 1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

• 1985 Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
• 1986 Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
• 1988 MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)

• 1990 New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
• 1990 Tanzania government of Malecela forms
• 1991 Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
• 1991 Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power
• 1992 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
• 1992 Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"
• 1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
• 1993 Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
• 1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
• 1994 Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany

• 1997 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
• 1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing - largest civil settlement in US history
• 1998 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
• 1999 TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
• 2003 A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
• 2004 Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
• 2005 Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
• 2005 The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

• 2009 Joe Cada becomes the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker

• 2012 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
• 2012 An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
• 2013 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
• 2014 Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption
• 2014 Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
• 2014 Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
• 2014 United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS)

• 2015 "Reclining Nude" by Italian artist Modigliani fetches 2nd highest auction price at $170.4m
• 2015 San Diego's SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
• 2015 Tim Wolfe, President of the University of Missouri, resigns amid protests of endemic racism on campus
• 2015 World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a "state-supported" doping programme
• 2017 Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in "Washington Post" report
• 2017 Five women detail sexual misconduct by comedian Louis C.K. in "New York Times" report
• 2017 Saudi Arabia's attorney general Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb says 201 more people have been held for questioning in anti-corruption drive

• 2018 Attacker stabs three, killing one in Melbourne, Australia, with homeless man hailed as hero for using shopping trolley to stop him

• 2018 Mudslide after heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil kills 10
• 2018 Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
• 2019 India’s Supreme Court rules in favor of Hindus over Muslims in dispute over who has right to holy site in city of Ayodhya
• 2019 Kartarpur corridor opens allowing Sikh worshippers from India to access holy site of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without a visa

• 2019 Prominent Russian history professor Oleg Sokolov discovered with severed arms of his murder victim in his backpack when rescued from Moika River, St Petersburg
• 2019 Unprecedented 70 bush fires in New South Wales, Australia, destroys 100 homes killing three people with seven missing

• 2020 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm
• 2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
• 2020 Peru's Congress votes to impeach and oust President Martín Vizcarra on corruption charges
• 2020 US Attorney General William Barr controversially approves federal investigations into voter fraud for the US elections
• 2020 US recorded COVID-19 cases pass 10 million, with 1 million new cases recorded in 10 days. Death toll over 237,000. [1]
• 2021 105-year-old Julia Hawkins sets a world record as the first woman and first American her age to run 100 meters at Louisiana Senior Olympic Games [1]

• 2022 Archaeologists announce discovery of oldest decipherable sentence on an ivory comb “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” in 1,700 B.C Canaanite script from Tel Lachish, Israel [1]

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