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
- 1330 –Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1791 –Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
- 1793 –William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
- 1822 –The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
- 1857 –The Atlantic founded in Boston.
- 1937 –Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1963 –At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 1965 –Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1967 –Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- 2005 –Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
Who were born on November 9?
- 1880 –Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
- 1905 –Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
- 1921 –Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
- 1941 –Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
- 1953 –Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
- 1954 –Shankar Nag, Indian film actor and director
- 1970 –Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
- 1972 –Doug Russell, American sports radio and television personality
- 1974 –Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian Actress
- 1974 –Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
Who died on November 9?
- 1770 –John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
- 1940 –Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
- 1952 –Philip Murray, American labor leader and 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
- 1968 –Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
- 1971 –Maude Fealy, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1988 –John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
- 1991 –Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
- 2000 –Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
- 2002 –Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
- 2003 –Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili littérateur (b. 1937)
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