What Happened on Nov 9
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Pilgrims Aboard the Mayflower Sight Land
After reorganization, the final sixty-six day voyage was made by the Mayflower alone, leaving from a site near to the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth,... Read more
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Benjamin Banneker Is Born
Mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. Largely self-taught, Banneker was one... Read more
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Battle Of Fishdam Ford
The Battle of Fishdam Ford was an attempted surprise attack by British forces under the command of Major James Wemyss against an encampment of... Read more
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18 Brumaire
The coup of 18 Brumaire (often simply 18 Brumaire or Brumaire) was the coup d'état by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French... Read more
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Mary Jane Kelly Murdered in Spitalfields
On the morning of 9 November 1888, the day of the annual Lord Mayor's Day celebrations, Kelly's landlord John McCarthy sent his assistant, Thomas... Read more
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Capture of SMS Emden
Several German raiders roamed the seas in the early months of the war, taking many prizes before being finally rounded up. Of these, the most... Read more
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"His Trysting Place" (film) is Released
His Trysting Place is a short 1914 film starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand. Charlie and his friend Ambrose meet in a restaurant and... Read more
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Nadezhda Alliluyeva Dies
It was customary to bury not only rulers, but their wives, too, at the Novodevichy cemetery. At this point we would like to recall the wife of... Read more
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Carl Sagan is Born
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and... Read more
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Japanese Forces Take Taiyuan and Surrounding Area, Ending Large-Scale Resistance in the North China Area
The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan (traditional Chinese: 太原會戰; pinyin: Tàiyuán Huìzhàn; Wade-Giles: T'ai-yüan Hui-tsan)... Read more
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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalˌnaxt]; literally "Crystal night") or the Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi... Read more
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"Kristallnacht" The Night of Broken Glass
In 1938 I was 21, living in Würzburg in southern Germany and studying at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary. I was supposed to have an exam on Nov. 10,... Read more
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"Ninotchka" Is Released
Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.... Read more
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Agatha Christie publishes A Pocket Full of Rye
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 9, 1953... Read more
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Tsurumi Rail Accident
The Tsurumi rail accident occurred on November 9, 1963 between Tsurumi Station and Shin-Koyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama, Japan,... Read more
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Apollo 4 Mission
Apollo 4 was the first flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, carrying no crew. It was also the first flight of the S-IC and S-II stages of the... Read more
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Maya Bouskilla Is Born
Maya Bouskilla (also Maya Buskila) (Hebrew: מאיה בוסקילה; born November 9, 1977) is an Israeli pop singer. Maya Bouskilla was born to a... Read more
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Robert Taylor Incident
Bob taylor's encounter with the mysterious spheres in dechmont wood near livingston in scotland, is probably one of the most written about cases of... Read more
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"A Nightmare On Elm Street" Is Released
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film of the A Nightmare on Elm Street... Read more
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Twisted Sister release Come Out and Play
Come Out and Play is the fourth album by the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released by Atlantic Records. It was less successful than... Read more
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W.A.S.P. release The Last Command
The Last Command is the second album by heavy metal band W.A.S.P. on November 9, 1985. The album was produced by Spencer Proffer, who also produced... Read more
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Candlemass release Nightfall
Nightfall is the second album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass, released in 1987. It was the first album to feature Messiah Marcolin on... Read more
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Berlin Wall Falls
On August 23, 1989, Hungary removed its physical border defences with Austria, and in September more than 13,000 East German tourists in Hungary... Read more
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MST3K Ep. 315 - "Teenage Cave Man"
(Shorts: Aquatic Wizards, Catching Trouble) In a prehistoric world, a teenager (Robert Vaughn) rails against the seemingly arbitrary laws of his... Read more
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Oprah Appears On "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air"
Well, he didn't actually kick her out of the house. He just changed all the locks and told her she didn't live there anymore. Read more