November 9th Events |
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| November 9th, 2005 (November 09 2005) | Event | The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. | |
| November 9th, 2005 (November 09 2005) | Event | Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people. | |
| November 9th, 2004 (November 09 2004) | Event | The initial release date of the mozilla firefox web browser. | |
| November 9th, 2003 (November 09 2003) | Event | A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people. | |
| November 9th, 1999 (November 09 1999) | Event | TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident. | |
| November 9th, 1998 (November 09 1998) | Event | Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. | |
| November 9th, 1998 (November 09 1998) | Event | Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. | |
| November 9th, 1994 (November 09 1994) | Event | The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered. | |
| November 9th, 1993 (November 09 1993) | Event | Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing. | |
| November 9th, 1990 (November 09 1990) | Event | New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal. | |
| November 9th, 1990 (November 09 1990) | Event | Mary Robinson is elected Ireland s first female President and the first from the Labour Party. | |
| November 9th, 1989 (November 09 1989) | Event | Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall. | |
| November 9th, 1985 (November 09 1985) | Event | Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union. | Garry Kasparov Quotes |
| November 9th, 1971 (November 09 1971) | Event | 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. | |
| November 9th, 1970 (November 09 1970) | Event | 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. | |
| November 9th, 1967 (November 09 1967) | Event | Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida. | |
| November 9th, 1967 (November 09 1967) | Event | First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. | |
| November 9th, 1965 (November 09 1965) | Event | 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. | |
| November 9th, 1965 (November 09 1965) | Event | Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. | |
| November 9th, 1965 (November 09 1965) | Event | Northeast Blackout of 1965, The power lines from Niagara Falls to New York City were operating near their maximum capacity. At about 5:15 a transmission line relay failed. | |
| November 9th, 1963 (November 09 1963) | Event | At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people. | |
| November 9th, 1960 (November 09 1960) | Event | Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration. | Robert McNamara Quotes |
| November 9th, 1953 (November 09 1953) | Event | Cambodia becomes independent from France. | |
| November 9th, 1938 (November 09 1938) | Event | Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany s first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. | |
| November 9th, 1937 (November 09 1937) | Event | Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China. | |
| November 9th, 1935 (November 09 1935) | Event | The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. | |
| November 9th, 1932 (November 09 1932) | Event | Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60. | |
| November 9th, 1923 (November 09 1923) | Event | In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis. | |
| November 9th, 1921 (November 09 1921) | Event | Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect. | Albert Einstein Quotes |
| November 9th, 1918 (November 09 1918) | Event | Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. | |
| November 9th, 1917 (November 09 1917) | Event | Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| November 9th, 1907 (November 09 1907) | Event | The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. | |
| November 9th, 1906 (November 09 1906) | Event | Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| November 9th, 1888 (November 09 1888) | Event | Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. | |
| November 9th, 1887 (November 09 1887) | Event | The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. | |
| November 9th, 1872 (November 09 1872) | Event | The Great Boston Fire of 1872. | |
| November 9th, 1867 (November 09 1867) | Event | Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration. | |
| November 9th, 1862 (November 09 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. | Ambrose Quotes |
| November 9th, 1861 (November 09 1861) | Event | The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto. | |
| November 9th, 1851 (November 09 1851) | Event | Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. | |
| November 9th, 1848 (November 09 1848) | Event | Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna. | |
| November 9th, 1799 (November 09 1799) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d etat of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government). | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| November 9th, 1764 (November 09 1764) | Event | Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. | |
| November 9th, 1729 (November 09 1729) | Event | Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville. | |
| November 9th, 1697 (November 09 1697) | Event | Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia. | |
| November 9th, 1688 (November 09 1688) | Event | The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter. | |
| November 9th, 1620 (November 09 1620) | Event | Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. | |
| November 9th, 1494 (November 09 1494) | Event | Family de Medici become rulers of Florence. | |
| November 9th, 1492 (November 09 1492) | Event | Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII. | |
| November 9th, 1330 (November 09 1330) | Event | Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush | |
| November 9th, 1313 (November 09 1313) | Event | Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf. | |
| November 9th, 1282 (November 09 1282) | Event | Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. | |
| November 9th, 0694 (November 09 0694) | Event | Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery. | |
