November 9

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 Recorded this day

Events

1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, following General George McClellan's removal.
1872 - Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
1875 - Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year).
1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the United States made an official trip outside of the United States).
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands as a result of the German Revolution.
1918 - Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.
1923 - Beer Hall Putsch fails: In Munich, policeman and troops crush the first Nazi Party attempt to seize control of the German government.
1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured.
1938 - Holocaust: Kristallnacht (also Reichspogromnacht) begins - In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).
1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1963 - 1963 Miike coal-mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.
1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1965 - Vietnam War: In New York City, 22-year old Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the war in Vietnam (this was the second such incident in a week; on November 2 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing in front of The Pentagon).
1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down).
1998 - In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ.
2002 - In Los Angeles, California, television and film actor Merlin Santana is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car parked on the 3800 block of Victoria Avenue.
2003 - A total lunar eclipse is seen in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia.
2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has killed 17 people, during the holy month of Ramadan. This attack comes amid tensions within the kingdom with a surge of Islamic extremism militancy. It has been attributed to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror organisation.
2004 - Halo 2 released on Microsoft's Xbox video game system.

Births

1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (d. 1586)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (d. 1883)
1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1853 - Stanford White, architect
1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (d. 1934)
1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician
1877 - Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet (d. 1938)
1879 - Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (d. 1960)
1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (d. 1942)
1885 - Velimir Chlebnikov, writer (d. 1922)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (d. 1955)
1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (d. 1966)
1889 - Jean Monnet, internationalist (d. 1979)
1889 - Claude Rains, actor (d. 1967)
1892 - Mabel Normand, silent film actress (d. 1930)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)
1915 - Sargent Shriver, former candidate for Vice President of the United States, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy
1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (d. 1965)
1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (d. 1974)
1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (d. 1996)
1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician (d. "Creedence Clearwater Revival")
1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor/comedian
1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)
1978 - Sisqo, rap music singer
1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, actress

Deaths

1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
1911 - Howard Pyle, author
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel
1953 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
1988 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal.
1991 - Yves Montand, actor
2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
2002 - Heinrich Schiemann, TV anchor
2003 - Art Carney, American actor

Holidays and observances

Recorded this day

1897 "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) J. W. Myers
1900 "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani) cornet Herbert L. Clarke
1901 "I'm Tired" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) S. H. Dudley
1901 "Baby Mine" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Leo Friedman) S. H. Dudley
1901 "Tact" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) S. H. Dudley
1904 "Just For The Sake Of Society" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Kerry Mills) James McCool
1905 "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" (w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt) Billy Murray
1905 "Good-bye Flo" (w.m. George M. Cohan) Billy Murray & Haydn Quartette
1906 "He's A Cousin Of Mine" (w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein) Clarice Vance
1906 "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" (w.m. Harry Hoyt) Clarice Vance
1906 "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" (w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard) Helen Trix
1927 "Forgive Me" (w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager) Grace Quine
1927 "Maggie McGee" (Rule, Wallis) Grace Quine
1932 "I Could Make A Good Living At That" (Cottrell, Lawton) George Formby
1932 "Let’s All Go To Reno" (Cottrell) George Formby
1932 "How Deep Is The Ocean?" (w.m. Irving Berlin) Elsie Carlisle Chenil Dance Orchestra
1932 "I've Got The World On A String" (w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen) Cab Calloway & his Orchestra
1933 "This Is Romance" (w. Edward Heyman m. Duke Vernon) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
1933 "And So Goodbye" (w.m. Allie Wrubel) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
1933 "Hand In Hand" (Pola-Vienna) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
1933 "Sing, Gipsy, Sing" (Winn, Marlen) Anona Winn
1934 "June In January" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
1934 "Love Is Just Around The Corner" (w. Leo Robin m. Lewis E. Gensler) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
1934 "With Every Breath I Take" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
1934 "Maybe I'm Wrong Again" (Bennett, Trent) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
1938 "You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)" (w.m. Gene Autry) Dick Todd & Three Reasons Leonard Joy
1938 "Buck Dance Rhythm" (Gaillard) Slim And Slam
1938 "Boogie Woogie" (m. Clarence "Pine Top" Smith) Count Basie
1939 "Do I Love You?" (w.m. Cole Porter) Helen Forrest Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
1939 "Blacking Out The Flat" (Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch) Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch
1940 "The Golden Wedding" (m. Gabriel-Marie) Woody Herman & his Orchestra
1943 "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" (w. Frank Loesser m. Arthur Schwartz) Hildegarde
1943 "I'll Be Seeing You" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain) Hildegarde
1944 "It Could Happen To You" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
1944 "Love, Here Is My Heart" (w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
1944 "Some Other Time" (w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Leonard Bernstein) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
1945 "Over The Rainbow" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
1945 "Walking My Baby Back Home" (w.m. Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
1945 "Yesterdays" (w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
1945 "Georgia On My Mind" (w. Stuart Gorrell m. Hoagy Carmichael) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
1946 "It's The Same Old Dream" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Artie Shaw
1946 "I Believe" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Art Shaw
1946 "When You're Around" (Artie Shaw, Johnny Lehman) Lillian Lane Art Shaw & his Orchestra
1946 "Who?" (w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern) Judy Garland O/Lennie Hayton
1947 "Body And Soul" (w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. John W. Green) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
1947 "I'm Glad There Is You" (w. Paul Medeira m. Jimmy Dorsey) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
1948 "More Beer!" (Julian H. Miller) Ames Brothers
1948 "You, You, You Are The One" (w. Milton Leeds & Fred Wise m. Tetos Demey) Ames Brothers
1949 "It Isn't Fair" (w. Richard Himber m. Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato) Don Cornell Sammy Kaye & his "Swing & Sway" Orchestra
1951 "It Had To Be You" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
1951 "Makin' Whoopee" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day & Danny Thomas O/Paul Weston
1951 "My Buddy" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
1951 "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
1954 "It Must Be So" (w.m. Peggy Lee) Peggy Lee O/Sy Oliver
1955 "Jamaica Farewell" (w.m. Lord Burgess) Harry Belafonte
1963 "I Believe" (w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman) Bachelors
1987 "Children Will Listen" (w.m. Stephen Sondheim) Bernadette Peters O/Paul Gemignani

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