On this day: 9 November
Events, births and deaths on 9 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Greg Ballard
- Events · 2016 Croydon tram derailment
100 years ago1926
- Births · Vicente Aranda
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 959 · Deaths · Konstantinos VII
- 1034 · Deaths · Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia
- 955 · Births · Gyeongjong
Events · 33
- 1180(Julian date)Battle of Fujigawa — battle in 1180 in Japan
- 1277(Julian date)Treaty of Aberconwy — 1277 treaty between England and Wales
- 1313(Julian date)Battle of Gammelsdorf — 1313 battle
- 1330(Julian date)Battle of Posada — 1330 battle
- 1431Battle of Ilava — 1431 battle
- 1729Treaty of Seville — peace treaty
- 1799French Consulate — former government of France
- 1799coup of 18 Brumaire — 1799 coup in Revolutionary France that brought Napoleon to power
- 1867Taisei Hokan — event on 9 Nov. 1867, in which the Tokugawa shogunate agreed to transfer powers to to the Meiji emperor
- 1870Battle of Coulmiers — 1870 battle
- 1872Great Boston Fire of 1872 — largest fire in Boston
- 18801880 Zagreb earthquake — earthquake in Croatia
- 1914Battle of Cocos — 1914 naval battle near the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- 1918Weimar Republic — Germany in the years 1918/1919–1933
- 1918flag of Azerbaijan — national flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- 1918Proclamation of the republic in Germany — proclamation
- 1921National Fascist Party — Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism
- 1923Beer Hall Putsch — attempted coup d'état in Weimar Republic
- 1935Congress of Industrial Organizations — North American federation of labor unions from 1935 to 1955
- 1953Cambodia — country in Southeast Asia
- 1953Kingdom of Cambodia — 1953-1970 monarchy in Southeast Asia
- 1963Tsurumi rail accident — train accident in Japan
- 1963
- 1965Northeast blackout of 1965 — major power outage
- 1967Rolling Stone — American monthly music magazine
- 1989fall of the Berlin Wall — historical event in November 1989 where the Berlin Wall was opened and demolished
- 1999TAESA Flight 725 — Aviation accident
- 2000Uttarakhand — state in northern India
- 20052005 Amman bombings — series of coordinated bomb attacks that took place in Amman, Jordan in 2005
- 2014Catalan self-determination referendum — vote on independence on one of the regions of Spain
- 20162016 Croydon tram derailment — November 2016 fatal derailment in south London
- 2019Kartarpur Corridor — border corridor between the neighbouring nations of India and Pakistan
- 20202020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement — armistice agreement ending the Nagorno-Karabakh war
Births · 60
- 1389(Julian date)Isabella of Valois — Queen consort of England
- 1683George II of Great Britain — King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760)
- 1731Benjamin Banneker — free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)
- 1818Ivan Turgenev — Russian writer (1818–1883)
- 1832Émile Gaboriau — French writer (1832-1873)
- 1840Kuroda Kiyotaka — Japanese general (1840-1900)
- 1841Edward VII — King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
- 1864Paul Sérusier — French painter (1864–1927)
- 1868Marie Dressler — Canadian-American actress (1868-1934)
- 1871Florence R. Sabin — American medical scientist (1871–1953)
- 1876Hideyo Noguchi — Japanese bacteriologist (1876–1928)
- 1877Muhammad Iqbal — British-Indian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician (1877-1938)
- 1877Enrico de Nicola — President of Italy from 1946 to 1948
- 1885Hermann Weyl — German mathematician (1885–1955)
- 1885Velimir Khlebnikov — Russian writer (1885–1922)
- 1885Theodor Kaluza — mathematician, physicist and university teacher (1885-1954)
- 1886Ed Wynn — American actor (1886-1966)
- 1888Jean Monnet — French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979)
- 1894Dietrich von Choltitz — German general (1894-1966)
- 1894Mae Marsh — American actress (1894-1968)
- 1897Ronald George Wreyford Norrish — British chemist
- 1902Anthony Asquith — English film director (1902-1968)
- 1904Viktor Brack — German economist and Nazi party functionary, convicted war criminal (1904-1948)
- 1905Erika Mann — German actress and writer (1905-1969)
- 1914Hedy Lamarr — Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Deaths · 60
- 959(Julian date)Konstantinos VII — Byzantine emperor
- 1034(Julian date)Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia
- 1187(Julian date)Emperor Gaozong of Song — emperor of Song Dynasty China (1107–1187)
- 1208(Julian date)Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon — Queen consort of Alfonso II of Aragon
- 1261(Julian date)Sanchia of Provence — German queen
- 1312(Julian date)Otto V or III, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Lower Bavaria and King of Hungary (1261-1312)
- 1456Ulrich II, Count of Celje — Ban of Croatia
- 1492(Julian date)Jami — Persian poet (1414–1492)
- 1623(Julian date)William Camden — (1551–1623) English antiquarian
- 1630Tōdō Takatora — Japanese daimyo (1556-1630)
- 1641Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria — Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, Cardinal Infante, Archbishop of Toledo (1609-1641)
- 1677Aert van der Neer — Dutch painter (1603-1677)
- 1778Giovanni Battista Piranesi — Italian painter (1720-1778)
- 1801Carl Stamitz — German composer of partial Czech ancestry
- 1848Robert Blum — German democratic politician (1807-1848)
- 1854Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton — American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton (1757–1854)
- 1880Edwin Drake — American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States (1819-1880)
- 1911Howard Pyle — American illustrator and author (1853-1911)
- 1918Guillaume Apollinaire — French poet (1880–1918)
- 1919Eduard Müller — member of the Swiss Federal Council (1848-1919)
- 1924Henry Cabot Lodge — American statesman (1850–1924)
- 1932Nadezhda Alliluyeva — second wife of Joseph Stalin
- 1937Ramsay MacDonald — British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935 (1866–1937)
- 1938Vasily Blyukher — Soviet marshal (1889–1938)
- 1940Neville Chamberlain — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
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