Major Events
- 1494 Piero the Unfortunate of the de’ Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses power and flees the state
- 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
- 1867 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun in Japan, resigns due to intense political pressure from pro-imperial factions
- 1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares a holy war against Iran
- 1989 East Berlin opens its borders at the Bornholmer Strasse crossing when thousands arrive after East German government official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announces that restrictions on travel to the West will be lifted “immediately, without delay”
- 1994 Darmstadtium, chemical element 110, is discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany
- 1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.03 billion to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing, the largest civil settlement in US history
- 2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine is over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
Nov 9 in Film & TV
- 1984 Wes Craven‘s horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” premieres in the US
Nov 9 in Music
- 1878 First performance of the New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Leopold Damrosch; the group competes with the New York Philharmonic until merging in 1928
Nov 9 in Sport
Did You Know?
Jack the Ripper’s fifth and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, is found on her bed
Fun Fact About November 9
First US design patent for typefaces and borders is issued to George Bruce of New York City
Famous Weddings
- 1866 Tsarevich Alexander of Russia (later Alexander III) marries Princess Dagmar of Denmark at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
- 1882 “Wizard of Oz” author L. Frank Baum (26) weds producer Maud Gage (21) at Gage’s family home in Fayetteville, New York
- 1887 Anna Mary Robertson (27), later to become painter known as Grandma Moses, weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
Famous Divorces
- 1931 Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage
- 1968 Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (26) divorces first wife Marlynn Myers after 4 years of marriage
- 2004 Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage
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