November 09
Tuesday 09, 2004:
The Xbox game Halo 2 is released, bringing in US$75 million from pre-orders alone.
Sunday 09, 2003:
Rebel Youth Network Organizing Committee formed in Toronto.
Monday 09, 1998:
Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
Sunday 09, 1997:
Mike Lookinland (of The Brady Bunch fame) is charged with drunk driving in St. George, Utah.
Wednesday 09, 1994:
Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
Tuesday 09, 1993:
Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
Thursday 09, 1989:
Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
Sunday 09, 1986:
Romania: Ellection of Patriarch Teoctist Ar?pa?u/Theoctist
Saturday 09, 1985:
Louis Papaloizou is born in Co. Durham, England.
Tuesday 09, 1971:
John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.
Monday 09, 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.
Thursday 09, 1967:
Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
Tuesday 09, 1965:
Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
Saturday 09, 1963:
At Miike in Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
Thursday 09, 1961:
Neil A. Armstrong records a world record speed in a jet plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15.
Monday 09, 1953:
Cambodia becomes independent from France.
Saturday 09, 1940:
Premiere of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez in Barcelona, Spain.
Wednesday 09, 1938:
Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
Tuesday 09, 1937:
Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
Wednesday 09, 1932:
Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
Friday 09, 1923:
In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
Saturday 09, 1918:
Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
Saturday 09, 1907:
The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
Friday 09, 1906:
Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
Friday 09, 1888:
Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
Wednesday 09, 1887:
The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Saturday 09, 1872:
The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
Sunday 09, 1862:
American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George McClellan was removed.
Sunday 09, 1851:
Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
Thursday 09, 1848:
Robert Blum, German revolutionary, executed in Vienna
Saturday 09, 1799:
Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
Wednesday 09, 1729:
Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
Sunday 09, 1541:
Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.
Tuesday 09, 1520:
Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles.
Friday 09, 1494:
Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
Wednesday 09, 1492:
Peace of Etaples between Henry VII & Charles VIII.
Monday 09, 1282:
Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
Friday 09, 694:
Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems, and sentences all Jews to slavery.
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