About November 9
November 9, 2023 is the 313th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 93 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.
- 1313 –Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
- 1520 –More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
- 1620 –Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1764 –Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- 1822 –The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
- 1857 –The Atlantic founded in Boston.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
- 1867 –Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- 1888 –Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
- 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.
- 1923 –In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
- 1935 –The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 1940 –Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
- 1963 –At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 1965 –Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- 1989 –Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
- 1993 –Stari most, the “old bridge” in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1994 –The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
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