Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 9

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
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
1861 : 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1861 : Battle of Piketon, Ky
1862 : US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 : 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1864 : Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1865 : Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1872 : Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1877 : American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 : Opera "Ermine," premieres in London
1888 : Jack Ripper's 5th & last known victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found
1899 : Boerenaanval up Ladysmith, Natal, attack
1904 : 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1905 : Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1906 : T Roosevelt is 1st pres to visit other countries (P Rico & Panama)
1912 : Ferenc Moln?rs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest
1913 : Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
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
1921 : W Baade discovers asteroid #966 Muschi, #967 Helionape & #1103 Sequoia
1923 : Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow govt, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 : Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 : German NSDAP form SS
1927 : Giant Panda discovered, China
1927 : Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors
1930 : 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 : Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1935 : Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1935 : Japan invades Shanghai China
1936 : Albanian govt of Frasheri falls
1937 : Japans army conquers Shanghai
1938 : Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 : Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews
1939 : "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 : Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 : Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1940 : Germany invades Norway & Denmark in WW II
1941 : Hitler threatens bishop Clemens earl von Galen of Minster
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
1944 : Walcheren of nazi troops purged
1946 : Pres Truman ends wage/price freeze
1949 : Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1950 : Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 : White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1953 : Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1953 : KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 : Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1955 : Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC
1955 : UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics
1956 : Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1961 : Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC
1961 : PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
1961 : USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1962 : Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 : "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
1963 : 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight
1963 : 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1964 : "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
1964 : Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1965 : 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1965 : Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
1966 : "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs
1966 : Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
1967 : 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 : Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1968 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 : Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971 : David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London
1971 : John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1972 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 : Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 : Govt De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
1973 : Ringo releases "Ringo" album
1976 : Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
1976 : UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1978 : NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
1980 : Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1982 : Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1983 : Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1983 : Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 : Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1985 : "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 : Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
1985 : Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
1988 : "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1989 : East Berlin opens its borders
1990 : Tanzania govt of Malecela forms
1992 : Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
1992 : Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"
1993 : "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
1993 : Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1994 : Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1995 : "Danny Gans on Broadway" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC
1997 : "Cherry Orchard," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 : "Scarlet Pimpernel," opens at Minskoff Theater NYC

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