November 9


November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining.

Events:

   * 1862 - Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Union Army of the
     Potomac
   * 1918 - Bavaria declares itself a republic
   * 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates
   * 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch fails
   * 1938 - 'Kristallnacht ("night of broken glass"): widespread
     anti-semitic pogrom in Germany.
   * 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent.
   * 1989 - Berlin Wall is opened.
   * 2002 - Actor Merlin Santana is shot

Births:

   * 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (+ 1586)
   * 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
   * 1818 - Ivan Turgenev, novelist, poet, playwright (+1883)
   * 1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (+ 1865)
   * 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (+ 1910)
   * 1853 - Stanford White, architect
   * 1869 - Marie Dressler, actress (+ 1934)
   * 1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician
   * 1883 - Edna May Oliver, actress (+ 1942)
   * 1885 - Hermann Weyl, mathematician (+ 1955)
   * 1885 - Velimir Chlebnikov, writer (+ 1922)
   * 1886 - Ed Wynn, actor (+ 1966)
   * 1889 - Claude Rains, actor (+ 1967)
   * 1913 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (+ 2000)
   * 1915 - Sargent Shriver, former candidate for Vice President of the
     United States, brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy
   * 1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (+ 1996)
   * 1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress (+ 1965)
   * 1928 - Anne Sexton, poet (+ 1974)
   * 1929 - Imre KertŽsz, Hungarian writer
   * 1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer (+ 1996)
   * 1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
   * 1935 - Bob Gibson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
   * 1939 - Ulrich Schamoni, film director
   * 1941 - Tom Fogerty, musician (+ "Creedence Clearwater Revival")
   * 1959 - Edward Porter Felt, American engineer
   * 1978 - Sisqo, rap music singer

Deaths

   * 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper
   * 1911 - Howard Pyle, author
   * 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer
   * 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
   * 1942 - Edna May Oliver, actress
   * 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
   * 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel
   * 1953 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
   * 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
   * 1991 - Yves Montand, actor
   * 2002 - William Schutz, psychologist