About November 9
November 9, 2024 is the 314th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Scorpio is the sun 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 81 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 9
- 694 –Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1282 –Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1492 –Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1697 –Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
- 1793 –William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
- 1799 –Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
- 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.
- 1872 –The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
- 1888 –Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
- 1907 –The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1913 –The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
- 1935 –The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 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.
- 1965 –Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
- 1967 –First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
- 1998 –Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 2005 –Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
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