Today in History
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9 November |
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| 1414 Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg was born | ||
| 1282 Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Arag˘north | ||
| 1492 Peace of Etaples (Henry VII & Charles VIII) | ||
| 1494 Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence | ||
| 1520 Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles | ||
| 1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg | ||
| 1541 Queen Catharine Howard confined in London Tower | ||
| 1569 Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland | ||
| 1580 Spanish troops lands in Ireland | ||
| 1673 British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury | ||
| 1681 Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion | ||
| 1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire | ||
| 1729 Spain, France & England signs Treaty of Seville | ||
| 1794 Russian troops occupy Warsaw | ||
| 1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France | ||
| 1809 Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877 was born | ||
| 1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Phila | ||
| 1848 Post office at Clay & Pike opens | ||
| 1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun | ||
| 1854 Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres | ||
| 1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published | ||
| 1858 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra | ||
| 1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston | ||
| 1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY | ||
| 1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes | ||
| 1912 Ferenc Moln…rs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest | ||
| 1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 | ||
| 1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic | ||
| 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I | ||
| 1918 Republic Germany proclaimed | ||
| 1921 Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini | ||
| 1927 Giant Panda discovered, China | ||
| 1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama | ||
| 1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 | ||
| 1935 Japan invades Shanghai China | ||
| 1936 Albanian govt of Frasheri falls | ||
| 1937 Japans army conquers Shanghai | ||
| 1938 Anti-Jewish riots took place in much of Germany after the murder of a German official in Paris. The streets of the main cities were littered with glass, and the night became known as "Kristallnacht," or Crystal Night. | ||
| 1939 "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres | ||
| 1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron) | ||
| 1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark in WW II | ||
| 1940 Neville Chamberlain died. British prime minister from 1937, he followed a policy of appeasement with Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, negotiating the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938. Replaced by Winston Churchill in May 1940, he died six months later. | ||
| 1942 German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier | ||
| 1942 Transport nr 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany | ||
| 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize | ||
| 1949 Costa Rica adopts Constitution | ||
| 1950 Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year | ||
| 1952 Chaim Weizmann, first president of the newly founded Jewish state of Israel from 1948-52, died. | ||
| 1953 King Ibn Saud, Muslim religious leader who created the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, died. | ||
| 1955 NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca | ||
| 1955 UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics | ||
| 1964 Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan | ||
| 1965 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada | ||
| 1967 The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | ||
| 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins | ||
| 1970 Charles De Gaulle, French soldier and statesman, died at 79. The symbol of France's resistance to Nazi occupation, De Gaulle led the French government in exile during World War II and headed the first government after the Liberation. Later, he founded the Fifth Republic and served as its president from 1958 until 1969. | ||
| 1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa | ||
| 1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran | ||
| 1983 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped | ||
| 1985 Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion | ||
| 1989 East Germans on foot and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East German government opened its border to the West. | ||
| 1990 Tanzania govt of Malecela forms | ||
| 1990 King Birendra of Nepal proclaimed a new Constitution that restored multi-party democracy to the Himalayan kingdom and stripped him of his absolute power. | ||