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 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 27, 2022 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 463,320 hours 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 74 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 3,610 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 9 Historical Events
- 1492 –Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1520 –More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
- 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.
- 1851 –Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- 1861 –The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
- 1917 –Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- 1937 –Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1940 –Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
- 1960 –Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1979 –Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
Who were born on November 9?
- 1522 –Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
- 1801 –Gail Borden, Jr., American inventor(d. 1874)
- 1878 –An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
- 1879 –Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
- 1923 –Alice Coachman, American athlete
- 1934 –Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
- 1951 –Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
- 1955 –Thomas F. Duffy American actor
- 1970 –Scarface, American rapper
- 1983 –Rob Elloway, English/German rugby player
Who died on November 9?
- 959 –Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
- 1456 –Ulrich II of Celje, last prince of Celje principality (b. 1406)
- 1937 –Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- 1940 –Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
- 1953 –Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
- 1957 –Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
- 2002 –Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
- 2004 –Emlyn Hughes, English football player (b. 1947)
- 2004 –Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
- 2006 –Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
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