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The 9t o November is the 313t day o the year (314t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 52 days bidin.
Events
1620 - The Pilgrims on the Mayflower ship sicht laund at Cape Cod, Massachusetts .
1802 - Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit o Mercur frae Callao , Peru .
1867 - The Tokugawa shogunate haunds pouer back tae the Emperor o Japan , stairtin the Meiji Restoration .
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US Preses tae mak an offeecial owerseas veesit while in affice, in order tae inspect biggin wirk on the Panama Canal .
1918 - Philipp Scheidemann declares Germany a republic.
1922 - Albert Einstein belatedly wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Pheesics .
1923 - The Munich Beer Haw Putsch , an early attempt at pouer bi Adolf Hitler , is endit.
1936 - Nazis remuive the statue o Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the nicht tae 10 November.
1937 - Japan taks control o Shanghai , Cheenae .
1938 - Kristallnacht : In the nicht tae 10 November, the Nazis burn an destroy Jewish synagogues an businesses across Germany .
1953 - Cambodie gains unthirldom frae Fraunce .
1953 - Ibn Saud o Saudi Arabie dees. Aw o his successors, as o 2020 , hae been his sons.
1963 - The Miike coal mine splosion in Japan kills 458 fowk.
1985 - Garry Kasparov wins the Warld Chess Championship, defeatin Anatoly Karpov .
1989 - The Berlin Waw is openit.
1990 - Nepal adopts a democratic constitution.
1993 - The Auld Brig at Mostar, Bosnie an Herzegovinae , is blown up durin the Balkan War.
1994 - The element Darmstadtium is discoverit.
1997 - The BBC News chainel is launched, unner the name "BBC News 24".
2000 - In Indie , the state o Uttarakhand is creatit.
2005 - European Space Agency probe "Venus Express" is launched frae Baikonur, Kazakhstan .
2005 - Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman , Jordan , killin ower 60 fowk.
2014 - Catalonie holds a symbolic vote on unthirldom frae Spain .
2016 - A tram derails in Croydon , Sooth Lunnon , killin 7 fowk.
2019 - An Indie coort gies a disputit releegious site in Ayodhya tae Hindus .
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : Drog company Pfizer propales a vaccine that is said tae be 90% effective.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases in the Unitit States gets tae 10 million.
Births
1683 - George II o Great Breetain (d. 1760 )
1818 - Ivan Turgenev , Roushie writer (d. 1883 )
1841 - Edward VII , King o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1910 )
1868 - Marie Dressler , Canadian-American actress (d. 1934 )
1877 - Helen Crawfurd , Scots suffragette, activist an politeecian (d. 1954 )
1877 - Muhammad Iqbal , Pakistani poet, philosopher an politeecian (d. 1938 )
1914 - Hedy Lamarr , Austrick actress an inventor (d. 2000 )
1918 - Spiro Agnew , Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1996 )
1934 - Carl Sagan , American astronomer an astropheesicist (d. 1996 )
1936 - Mikhail Tal , Latvian chess player (d. 1992 )
1938 - Bill Martin , Scots sangwriter, muisic publisher an impresario (d. 2020 )
1948 - Luiz Felipe Scolari , Brazilian fitbaw manager
1960 - Andreas Brehme , German fitbawer
1961 - Jackie Kay , Scots Makar
1965 - Bryn Terfel , Welsh operatic baritone
1973 - Maija Vilkkumaa , Finnish sangster
1974 - Alessandro Del Piero , Italian fitbawer
1975 - Maria Ribeiro , Brazilian actress
1979 - Caroline Flack , Inglis telly presenter (d. 2020 )
Daiths
959 - Constantine VII , Byzantine Emperor (b. 905 )
1770 - John Campbell, 4t Duke o Argyll , Scots politeecian an general (b. 1693 )
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet (b. 1880 )
1935 - Harold Tennant , Scots politeecian (b. 1865 )
1937 - Ramsay MacDonald , Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1866 )
1940 - Neville Chamberlain , Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1869 )
1952 - Chaim Weizmann , first Preses o Israel (b. 1874 )
1953 - Dylan Thomas , Welsh poet (b. 1914 )
1953 - Ibn Saud , King o Saudi Arabie (b. 1876 )
1970 - Charles de Gaulle , Preses o Fraunce (b. 1890 )
1991 - Yves Montand , Italian-French sangster an actor (b. 1921 )
2004 - Stieg Larsson , Swadish writer (b. 1954 )
2014 - Joe Walsh , Erse politeecian (b. 1943 )
2018 - Janet Paisley , Scots writer, poet an playwricht (b. 1948 )
Halidays
Ootside airtins
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