November 9

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:

November 8 - November 10 - October 9 - December 9 -- listing of all days

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