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 313th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 27, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,762,646,400 seconds 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 ‘trihectadecatrigon’ day.
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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 100 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 4,706 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 9 Historical Events
- 1848 –Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
- 1887 –The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1907 –The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1914 –SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
- 1937 –Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1947 –India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
- 1989 –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. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
- 2005 –The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2007 –The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
Who were born on November 9?
- 1825 –A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
- 1918 –Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
- 1923 –Alice Coachman, American athlete
- 1931 –Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
- 1939 –Paul Cameron, American psychologist
- 1946 –Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter
- 1955 –Thomas F. Duffy American actor
- 1963 –Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
- 1970 –Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
- 1980 –James Harper, English footballer
Who died on November 9?
- 1581 –Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
- 1801 –Carl Stamitz, German-Czech composer (b. 1745)
- 1809 –Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
- 1937 –Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- 1940 –Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
- 1940 –Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
- 1944 –Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
- 1957 –Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
- 1988 –David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
- 2004 –Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
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