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November 9

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Recorded this day

Events

• 1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, following General George McClellan's removal.
• 1872 - Great Boston Fire of 1872
• 1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
• 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside of the United States when he leaves to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal.
• 1918 - Germany is proclaimed a Republic. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands as a result of the German Revolution.
• 1918 - Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.
• 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch fails: In Munich, policeman and troops crush the first Nazi Party attempt to seize control of the German government.
• 1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured.
• 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
• 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
• 1963 - 1963 Miike coal-mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.
• 1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
• 1965 - Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the Vietnam War.
• 1967 - Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States to not hear a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
• 1989 - Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades.
• 1998 - In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses to pay investors cheated in a price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ.
• 2002 - Television and film actor Merlin Santana is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car.
• 2003 - A total lunar eclipse is seen in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia.
• 2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has killed 17 people, during the holy month of Ramadan.

Births

• 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (d. 1586)
• 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
• 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (d. 1883)
• 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
• 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
• 1853 - Stanford White, architect
• 1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (d. 1934)
• 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician
• 1877 - Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet (d. 1938)
• 1879 - Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
• 1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect (d. 1960)
• 1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (d. 1942)
• 1885 - Velimir Chlebnikov, writer (d. 1922)
• 1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (d. 1955)
• 1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (d. 1966)
• 1889 - Jean Monnet, internationalist (d. 1979)
• 1889 - Claude Rains, actor (d. 1967)
• 1892 - Mabel Normand, silent film actress (d. 1930)
• 1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
• 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)
• 1915 - Sargent Shriver, former candidate for Vice President of the United States, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy
• 1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
• 1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (d. 1965)
• 1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (d. 1974)
• 1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer
• 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
• 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (d. 1996)
• 1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
• 1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician (d. "Creedence Clearwater Revival")
• 1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
• 1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor/comedian
• 1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
• 1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, actor ()
• 1978 - Sisqo, rap music singer
• 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, actress

Deaths

• 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
• 1911 - Howard Pyle, author
• 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer
• 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress
• 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
• 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel
• 1953 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
• 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
• 1988 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal.
• 1991 - Yves Montand, actor
• 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist
• 2002 - Heinrich Schiemann, TV anchor
• 2003 - Art Carney, American actor

Holidays and observances

Recorded this day

• 1897 "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) J. W. Myers
• 1900 "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani) cornet Herbert L. Clarke
• 1901 "I'm Tired" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) S. H. Dudley
• 1901 "Baby Mine" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Leo Friedman) S. H. Dudley
• 1901 "Tact" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) S. H. Dudley
• 1904 "Just For The Sake Of Society" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Kerry Mills) James McCool
• 1905 "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" (w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt) Billy Murray
• 1905 "Good-bye Flo" (w.m. George M. Cohan) Billy Murray & Haydn Quartette
• 1906 "He's A Cousin Of Mine" (w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein) Clarice Vance
• 1906 "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" (w.m. Harry Hoyt) Clarice Vance
• 1906 "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" (w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard) Helen Trix
• 1927 "Forgive Me" (w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager) Grace Quine
• 1927 "Maggie McGee" (Rule, Wallis) Grace Quine
• 1932 "I Could Make A Good Living At That" (Cottrell, Lawton) George Formby
• 1932 "Let’s All Go To Reno" (Cottrell) George Formby
• 1932 "How Deep Is The Ocean?" (w.m. Irving Berlin) Elsie Carlisle Chenil Dance Orchestra
• 1932 "I've Got The World On A String" (w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen) Cab Calloway & his Orchestra
• 1933 "This Is Romance" (w. Edward Heyman m. Duke Vernon) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "And So Goodbye" (w.m. Allie Wrubel) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "Hand In Hand" (Pola-Vienna) Al Bowlly Ray Noble & his Orchestra
• 1933 "Sing, Gipsy, Sing" (Winn, Marlen) Anona Winn
• 1934 "June In January" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "Love Is Just Around The Corner" (w. Leo Robin m. Lewis E. Gensler) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "With Every Breath I Take" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1934 "Maybe I'm Wrong Again" (Bennett, Trent) Bing Crosby O/Georgie Stoll
• 1938 "You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)" (w.m. Gene Autry) Dick Todd & Three Reasons Leonard Joy
• 1938 "Buck Dance Rhythm" (Gaillard) Slim And Slam
• 1938 "Boogie Woogie" (m. Clarence "Pine Top" Smith) Count Basie
• 1939 "Do I Love You?" (w.m. Cole Porter) Helen Forrest Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
• 1939 "Blacking Out The Flat" (Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch) Arthur Askey & Richard Murdoch
• 1940 "The Golden Wedding" (m. Gabriel-Marie) Woody Herman & his Orchestra
• 1943 "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old" (w. Frank Loesser m. Arthur Schwartz) Hildegarde
• 1943 "I'll Be Seeing You" (w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain) Hildegarde
• 1944 "It Could Happen To You" (w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Love, Here Is My Heart" (w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1944 "Some Other Time" (w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Leonard Bernstein) Anne Shelton Ambrose & his Orchestra
• 1945 "Over The Rainbow" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Walking My Baby Back Home" (w.m. Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Yesterdays" (w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1945 "Georgia On My Mind" (w. Stuart Gorrell m. Hoagy Carmichael) Jo Stafford O/Paul Weston
• 1946 "It's The Same Old Dream" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Artie Shaw
• 1946 "I Believe" (w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne) Mel Tormé O/Art Shaw
• 1946 "When You're Around" (Artie Shaw, Johnny Lehman) Lillian Lane Art Shaw & his Orchestra
• 1946 "Who?" (w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern) Judy Garland O/Lennie Hayton
• 1947 "Body And Soul" (w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. John W. Green) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
• 1947 "I'm Glad There Is You" (w. Paul Medeira m. Jimmy Dorsey) Frank Sinatra O/Axel Stordahl with trumpet solo Bobby Hackett
• 1948 "More Beer!" (Julian H. Miller) Ames Brothers
• 1948 "You, You, You Are The One" (w. Milton Leeds & Fred Wise m. Tetos Demey) Ames Brothers
• 1949 "It Isn't Fair" (w. Richard Himber m. Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato) Don Cornell Sammy Kaye & his "Swing & Sway" Orchestra
• 1951 "It Had To Be You" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "Makin' Whoopee" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day & Danny Thomas O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "My Buddy" (w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1951 "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else" (w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Doris Day O/Paul Weston
• 1954 "It Must Be So" (w.m. Peggy Lee) Peggy Lee O/Sy Oliver
• 1955 "Jamaica Farewell" (w.m. Lord Burgess) Harry Belafonte
• 1963 "I Believe" (w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman) Bachelors
• 1987 "Children Will Listen" (w.m. Stephen Sondheim) Bernadette Peters O/Paul Gemignani

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