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- 0694 Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
- 1330 Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1492 Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1494 Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
- 1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1688 The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
- 1697 Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cerviathat's cool.
- 1729 Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
- 1764 Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- 1848 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
- 1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- 1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
- 1861 The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
- 1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
- 1864 The first export of goods from Burrard Inlet, B.C.on Canada's West Coast to a foreign country
- 1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
- 1867 Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
- 1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
- 1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1906 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.
- 1913 a violent storm sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
- 1914 HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser, Emden, at the Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean
- 1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272
- 1917 Josef Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR.
- 1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
- 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
- 1921 Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
- 1923 Beer Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow government in Germany
- 1923 In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
- 1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
- 1930 The first nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
- 1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
- 1932 Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
- 1935 The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 1937 Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1938 "Kristallnacht": Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. 300,000 are arrested, 191 synagogues are destroyed, 7,500 shops are looted.
- 1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
- 1938 Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
- 1939 Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes assassination when a bomb explodes in the historic Buergenbraeu Hall in Munich shortly after the Chancellor had left to return to Berlin.
- 1942 First 4,000 Lublin Jews are brought to be killed at the newly-organized camp at Majdanek, located outside Lublin.
- 1944 Visitor posting - Harry E. Patterson marries Norma Jean Doutt - USA
- 1950 Visitor posting - Paul Haigh born. - United Kingdom
- 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
- 1953 Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
- 1955 A Sikorsky HR2S helicopter, at Windsor Locks, Conn., carried a payload of 11,050 pounds to an altitude over 12,000 feet
- 1960 Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- 1960 Visitor posting - david d foltz sr. was born - USA
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - His Latest Flame
- 1963 Visitor posting - birthday of Kada Baltic - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1963 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan)
- 1963 At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
- 1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (NY blackout)
- 1965 Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
- 1965 Northeast Blackout of 1965, The power lines from Niagara Falls to New York City were operating near their maximum capacity. At about 5:15 a transmission line relay failed.
- 1965 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.
- 1967 First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
- 1967 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
- 1968 Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson is killed in a car crash on his way to a concert in a church in Jnkping, Sweden.
- 1968 Visitor posting - Darlene Langeland born - USA
- 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
- 1970 Visitor posting - Brad Graham of Bettsville born. - USA [email protected]
- 1970 Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
- 1970 Visitor posting - Thomas D was born.Cool - USA
- 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.
- 1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
- 1978 The U.S. Marine Corps' newest light attack aircraft, the AV-8B, flew for the first time at McDonnell Douglas Corporation in St. Louis. The AV-8B Harrier had more than double the payload and radius of its predecessor, the AV-8A.
- 1984 Sara Rodrigues, famous singer/songwriter was born! November 09 1984
- 1984 Visitor posting - The world becomes a better place when a baby girl named Jenny is born - USA
- 1985 Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
- 1985 Gary Kasparov (USSR) becomes World Chess Champion at age of 22
- 1989 Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
- 1989 East Berlin opens its borders
- 1990 Mary Robinson was elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party.
- 1990 New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
- 1990 President Bush announces Doubling of US forces in Gulf
- 1992 Visitor posting - ashley was born! - USA
- 1993 Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Emily Gray born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Bennett Yasskin is born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Nichole's Birth
- 1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
- 1998 St. Thomas and Eastern Railway, a division of Trillium Rail, commences operation over the fomer CN Cayuga Spur between St. Thomas and Delhi, ON.
- 1999 TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
- 1999 Visitor posting - November 9, 1999 Anthony: Baby Froggy was born!!!!! Rrrrribit
- 2003 During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
- 2004 The highly popular video game Halo 2 is released.
- 2005 Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq.
- 2005 Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
- 2005 The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2009 "House of Horrors" murderer Jason Somerville pleads guilty to strangling his wife Rebecca Somerville and neighbour Tisha Lowry before having sex with their corpses in Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 2009 A high speed rail link under construction, Gautrain, will not be ready for the 2009 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
- 2009 A senior Burmese diplomat says the military government will release Aung San Suu Kyi soon.
- 2009 An Eritrean opposition leader claims weapons used by Houthi rebels are being supplied by Iran and transferred via Eritrea.
- 2009 Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell announces that she will not seek re-election in 2009.
- 2009 Downing Street defends Prime Minister Gordon Brown's habits after the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan labels a misspelled letter she received from him as a "hastily scrawled insult".
- 2009 Fifth outbreak of Sa'dah insurgency:
- 2009 Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi Arabia is using phosphorus bombs against them.
- 2009 In China eight ethnic Uyghurs and one Han are executed for their role in the Urumqi riots in July, in the first executions to take place.
- 2009 Iraq sets its next general election for January 21, 2009.
- 2009 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announces the formation of a unity government with Hezbollah.
- 2009 MDC official Roy Bennett's trial on terrorism charges begins in Zimbabwe.
- 2009 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, 2009
- 2009 Somali pirates attack a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker with long range rocket-propelled grenades 1,000 miles east off the Somali coast in the Indian Ocean.
- 2009 Tens of thousands of people gather in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh to hear an address by the visiting Dalai Lama.
- 2009 The Northern Mariana Islands election commission sets November 23 as the guberntorial runoff election between Governor Benigno Fitial and challenger Heinz Hofschneider.
- 2009 The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo alleges that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has six personal trains and 19 stations for his own use
- 2009 The death toll in El Salvador's floods and mudslides reaches 140.
- 2009 Three American hikers detained on the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran are to be charged for espionage by Iranian authorities.
- 2009 Visitor posting - 11/9/09 R.I.P Samuel M. died in a tragic car accident...-- u always - USA
- 2009 World leaders mark the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, with the main celebrations taking place at the Brandenburg Gate.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Sam Fox - USA
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