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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