History Events on November 09

Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

#Theodore_Roosevelt

The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.

#Judah_HeHasid_(Jerusalem)

The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

#Great_Boston_Fire_of_1872

Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

#Warsaw

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

The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.

#Chemical_element

Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

#Cold_War

Treaty of Aberconwy brings to an end the first of the Welsh Wars.

#Treaty_of_Aberconwy

At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.

#Miike_coal_mine

At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.

#Battle_of_Posada

In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

#Munich

The mutilated body of Mary Jane Kelly, believed to be the final victim of Jack the Ripper, is discovered in Spitalfields, London, England.

#Mary_Jane_Kelly

Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.

#Pope_Innocent_XII

American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

#American_Civil_War

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

Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.

#Glorious_Revolution

Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

#Tokugawa_shogunate

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

The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

#Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.

#Kaiser

The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

#Nazi_Germany

Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

#Kentucky

SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.

#SMS_Emden

Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor (Consulate Government).

#Napoleon

Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.

#Garry_Kasparov

The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.

#Canadian_football

Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.

#Power_outage

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

#Venus_Express

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

Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.

#Ulrich_II,_Count_of_Celje

The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

#Cullinan_Diamond

More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath

#Stockholm_Bloodbath

Cambodia gains independence from France.

#Cambodia

The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

#Pearl_Harbor

American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Donald Trump is declared the winner of the US Presidential Election.

#Donald_Trump

Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.

#Robert_McNamara

Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

#Society_of_United_Irishmen

Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

#Apollo_program

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.

#Second_Sino-Japanese_War

Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

#2005_Amman_bombings

The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.

#Bundestag

At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.

A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.

TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

the original broadcast of TV series The Young Ones (TV series)

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.

A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.

The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.

Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.

Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.

At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.