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 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 27, 2023 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,324,800 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 ‘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 93 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 3,975 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 9 Historical Events
- 694 –Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
- 1791 –Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
- 1822 –The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
- 1848 –Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
- 1917 –Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
Who were born on November 9?
- 1389 –Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
- 1810 –Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
- 1862 –Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
- 1879 –Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect (d. 1959)
- 1897 –Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
- 1906 –Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
- 1913 –Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
- 1960 –Joëlle Ursull, Guadeloupean singer
- 1965 –Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
- 1986 –Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish hockey player
Who died on November 9?
- 748 –Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Umayyad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
- 1208 –Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
- 1516 –King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1581 –Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
- 1766 –Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
- 1918 –Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (b. 1829)
- 1940 –Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
- 1957 –Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
- 2003 –Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2004 –Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
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