Major Events
- 1494 Piero the Unfortunate of the de' Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state
- 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
- 1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
- 1989 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie after thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces restrictions on travel to the West had lifted
- 1994 Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany
- 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
- 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
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Nov 9 in Film & TV
- 1984 Wes Craven's horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" premieres in the US
Nov 9 in Music
- 1878 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Leopold Damrosch; the group competes with the New York Philharmonic, until merging in 1928
Nov 9 in Sport
- 1985 Russia's Garry Kasparov (22) becomes the youngest ever World Chess Champion, with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov
Did You Know?
Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
Benjamin Banneker
Gail Borden
Edward VII
Spiro Agnew
Byron de la Beckwith
Carl Sagan
Marie Dressler
Hedy Lamarr
Vanessa Lachey
Mary Travers
Tom Fogerty
David Duval
Fun Fact About November 9
The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City
Famous Weddings
- 1866 Tsarevich Alexander of Russia (later Alexander III) marries Princess Dagmar of Denmark at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
- 1887 Anna Mary Robertson (27), later to become painter known as Grandma Moses, weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
- 1899 US Admiral of the Navy George Dewey (61) weds Mildred McLean Hazen at the rectory St. Paul's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.
Famous Divorces
- 1931 Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage
- 1968 Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (26) divorces first wife Marlynn Myers after 4 years of marriage
- 2004 Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage
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Charles de GaulleArticles, Photos and Quiz
Wayward Prince Blamed for Royal Death
Prince Edward, born on this day, came to prefer pleasure to duty, causing tension, Queen Victoria believed, that would have fatal consequences.
November 9, 1841
Garry Kasparov Becomes World Chess Champion
Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov in Moscow on November 9, 1985
November 9, 1985Fall of the Berlin Wall
People celebrating on top of the Berlin wall in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 1989
November 9, 1989
