November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining.
Events:
- 1862 - Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Union Army of the Potomac
- 1918 - Bavaria declares itself a republic
- 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates
- 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch fails
- 1927 - Giant panda discovered
- 1938 - Kristallnacht (Night of broken glass): Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues were attacked in Nazi Germany.
- 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent.
- 1989 - Berlin Wall is opened.
- 2002 - Actor Merlin Santana is shot
Births:
- 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (+ 1586)
- 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
- 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (+1883)
- 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (+ 1865)
- 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (+ 1910)
- 1853 - Stanford White, architect
- 1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (+ 1934)
- 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician
- 1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (+ 1942)
- 1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (+ 1955)
- 1885 - Velimir Chlebnikov, writer (+ 1922)
- 1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (+ 1966)
- 1889 - Claude Rains, actor (+ 1967)
- 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (+ 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 (+ 1996)
- 1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (+ 1965)
- 1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (+ 1974)
- 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
- 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (+ 1996)
- 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
- 1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
- 1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician (+ "Creedence Clearwater Revival")
- 1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
- 1978 - Sisqo, rap music singer
Deaths
- 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
- 1911 - Howard Pyle, author
- 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer
- 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress
- 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
- 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel
- 1953 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
- 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
- 1991 - Yves Montand, actor
- 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
November 8 - November 10 - October 9 - December 9 -- listing of all days
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