9 November
Notable Births
Prithvi Shaw
b. 1999
Indian cricketer (born 1999)
Momo Hirai
b. 1996
Japanese singer (born 1996)
Daniel Naroditsky
b. 1995
American chess grandmaster (1995–2025)
Lyrica Okano
b. 1994
American actress
Pete Dunne
b. 1993
British professional wrestler (born 1993)
Nosa Igiebor
b. 1990
Nigerian footballer
Baptiste Giabiconi
b. 1989
French singer and model
Nikki Blonsky
b. 1988
American actress (born 1988)
Lio Tipton
b. 1988
American actor and model (born 1988)
Carl Gunnarsson
b. 1986
Swedish ice hockey player
Bakary Soumaré
b. 1985
Malian footballer (born 1985)
Delta Goodrem
b. 1984
Australian singer-songwriter (born 1984)
French Montana
b. 1984
Moroccan and American rapper (born 1984)
Seven (South Korean singer)
b. 1984
South Korean singer (born 1984)
Michael Turner (footballer, born 1983)
b. 1983
English footballer
Boaz Myhill
b. 1982
Footballer (born 1982)
Jana Pittman
b. 1982
Australian hurdler and bobsledder
Eyedea
b. 1981
American rapper (1981–2010)
Jobi McAnuff
b. 1981
Jamaican footballer (born 1981)
Kane Waselenchuk
b. 1981
Canadian racquetball player
Notable Deaths
Bobby Allison
d. 2024
American racing driver (1937–2024)
Lou Donaldson
d. 2024
American jazz saxophonist (1926–2024)
Judith Jamison
d. 2024
American dancer and choreographer (1943–2024)
Junko Ohashi
d. 2023
Japanese singer (1950–2023)
Max Cleland
d. 2021
American politician (1942–2021)
Chuck Mosley
d. 2017
American musician (1959–2017)
Shyla Stylez
d. 2017
Canadian pornographic actress (1982–2017)
Carol Doda
d. 2015
American dancer (1937–2015)
Ernst Fuchs (artist)
d. 2015
Austrian artist (1930–2015)
Tommy Hanson
d. 2015
American baseball player (1986–2015)
Byron Krieger
d. 2015
American fencer (1920–2015)
Andy White (drummer)
d. 2015
Scottish drummer (1930–2015)
Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani
d. 2014
Qatari prince
R. A. Montgomery
d. 2014
American writer
Joe Walsh (Irish politician)
d. 2014
Irish politician (1943–2014)
Helen Eadie
d. 2013
Scottish politician (1947–2013)
Steve Prescott
d. 2013
England & Ireland international rugby league footballer
Milan Čič
d. 2012
Slovak politician (1932–2012)
Joseph D. Early
d. 2012
American politician (1933–2012)
Emperor Gaozong of Song
d. 1187
Emperor of China from 1127 to 1162
On This Day in History
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2023
U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
NYU Langone Health
2020
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
2014
A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.
2014 Catalan self-determination referendum
2012
A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
List of rail accidents (2010–2019)
2012
At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
2012 Welikada prison riot
2011
The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.
Emergency Alert System
2005
The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Venus Express
2005
Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 Amman bombings
2004
Firefox 1.0 is released.
Firefox
2000
Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
Uttarakhand
1999
TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
TAESA Flight 725
1998
A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
Nasdaq
1998
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom
1994
The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
Chemical element
1993
Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
Stari Most
1989
Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1985
Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
Garry Kasparov
1979
Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
Cold War
1971
American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.
John List (murderer)
1970
Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
Vietnam War