What are the important events that happened on November 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 9: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 9 is the 314th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 27, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,851,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecatetragon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 81 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,341 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 9 Historical Events
- 1282 –Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1330 –Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1729 –Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
- 1791 –Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
- 1857 –The Atlantic founded in Boston.
- 1867 –Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- 1923 –In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
- 1940 –Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
- 1965 –Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1998 –Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
Who were born on November 9?
- 1906 –Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
- 1922 –Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
- 1934 –Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
- 1954 –Shankar Nag, Indian film actor and director
- 1954 –Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
- 1959 –Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
- 1961 –Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
- 1970 –Scarface, American rapper
- 1980 –James Harper, English footballer
- 1981 –Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
Who died on November 9?
- 1623 –William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
- 1848 –Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
- 1919 –Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
- 1937 –Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- 1970 –Charles de Gaulle, French military commander, politician, President of France (b. 1890)
- 1988 –David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
- 2001 –Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
- 2003 –Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2005 –K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician and President of India (b. 1921)
- 2006 –Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
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