694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
1330 – At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje , last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts [ns 19 Nov].
1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
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.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford, British Major James Wemyss, commanding a force of 140 horsemen, attempted to surprise 300 South Carolina militiamen under General Thomas Sumter at Fishdam Ford, South Carolina. Instead of capturing Sumter as planned, Wemyss, "the second most hated man in the British army," was wounded in the arm and knee, and captured by Sumter.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba.
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.
1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1858 – The New York Symphony Orchestra makes its debut performance.
1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.
1862 – General Ambrose Burnside assumed command of the Union Army of the Potomac following the removal of George B. McClellan.
1867 – Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 14 people. In the aftermath, the city established an entirely new system of firefighting and prevention. The fire also led to the creation of Boston's financial district.
1875: Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins submited a report to Washington, D.C., stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were hostile to the United States. In so doing, Watkins set into motion a series of events that led to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana the following year.
1880 – A large earthquake strikes Zagreb and causes many casualties. One of them is the Zagreb Cathedral.
1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Armed Forces (known then as the "90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles") is founded.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly is murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
1901: President Theodore Roosevelt established a naval base in the Philippines at Subic Bay, on territory won from Spain during the Spanish-American War.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country when he departs the United States for Panama aboard the battleship Louisiana.. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1912: A contingent of 75 Greeks and Bulgarians from Spokane boarded a train to volunteer for the bloody war raging in their home countries. They were on their way to fight the Turks, also known as the Ottoman Empire. They planned to parade through the streets of downtown Spokane, headed by a Bulgarian band, prior to boarding the train. All Greek and Bulgarian stores in Spokane were scheduled to close from noon to 2 p.m. for the parade. The Balkan “patriots,” as the paper called them, were headed for Sofia, Bulgaria. The conflict came to be known as the First Balkan War. It led to the Second Balkan War a year later, which led to World War I.
1913 – 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.
1914 – World War I: In the first ever wartime action by an Australian warship, the cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks the German raider SMS Emden in the Battle of Cocos in the Indian Ocean.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 – The Italian National Fascist Party comes into existence.
1923 – In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany's democratic government crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the first attempt by the Nazi Party at seizing control of the German government.
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 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust. German Nazis launched a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The violence, which continued through November 10 and was later dubbed "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night), or "Night of Broken Glass," after the countless smashed windows of Jewish-owned establishments, left approximately 100 Jews dead, 7,500 Jewish businesses damaged, and hundreds of synagogues, homes, schools and graveyards vandalized.
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1956 – The French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre – long an admirer of the Soviet Union – denounced both the USSR and its communist system following the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
1962 – Goodfellow Bros. of Wenatchee was the apparent low bidder at $2.4 million to construct a four-lane, four-mile stretch of Interstate Highway 20 between Smelterville and Kellogg, Idaho.
1962 – The Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan (the fifth most popular tourist attraction in the U.S. at the time) burns to the ground.
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 – At dusk, the biggest power failure in U.S. history occurs as all of New York state, portions of seven neighboring states, and parts of eastern Canada are plunged into darkness by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours. The Northeast blackout of 1965 (Great Northeast blackout) began at the height of rush hour, delaying millions of commuters, trapping 800,000 people in New York's subways, and stranding thousands more in office buildings, elevators, and trains. Ten thousand National Guardsmen and 5,000 off-duty policemen were called into service to prevent looting.
1965 – The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1969 – Simon & Garfunkel record the single "Bridge over Troubled Water.”
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.
1979 – 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.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down. One of the ugliest and most infamous symbols of the Cold War was soon reduced to rubble that was quickly snatched up by souvenir hunters. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
1993 – Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion United States dollars to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
2012 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Burma, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
2012 – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country when he departs the United States for Panama aboard the battleship Louisiana.. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1912: A contingent of 75 Greeks and Bulgarians from Spokane boarded a train to volunteer for the bloody war raging in their home countries. They were on their way to fight the Turks, also known as the Ottoman Empire. They planned to parade through the streets of downtown Spokane, headed by a Bulgarian band, prior to boarding the train. All Greek and Bulgarian stores in Spokane were scheduled to close from noon to 2 p.m. for the parade. The Balkan “patriots,” as the paper called them, were headed for Sofia, Bulgaria. The conflict came to be known as the First Balkan War. It led to the Second Balkan War a year later, which led to World War I.
1913 – 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.
1914 – World War I: In the first ever wartime action by an Australian warship, the cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks the German raider SMS Emden in the Battle of Cocos in the Indian Ocean.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 – The Italian National Fascist Party comes into existence.
1923 – In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany's democratic government crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the first attempt by the Nazi Party at seizing control of the German government.
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 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust. German Nazis launched a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The violence, which continued through November 10 and was later dubbed "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night), or "Night of Broken Glass," after the countless smashed windows of Jewish-owned establishments, left approximately 100 Jews dead, 7,500 Jewish businesses damaged, and hundreds of synagogues, homes, schools and graveyards vandalized.
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1956 – The French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre – long an admirer of the Soviet Union – denounced both the USSR and its communist system following the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
1962 – Goodfellow Bros. of Wenatchee was the apparent low bidder at $2.4 million to construct a four-lane, four-mile stretch of Interstate Highway 20 between Smelterville and Kellogg, Idaho.
1962 – The Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan (the fifth most popular tourist attraction in the U.S. at the time) burns to the ground.1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 – At dusk, the biggest power failure in U.S. history occurs as all of New York state, portions of seven neighboring states, and parts of eastern Canada are plunged into darkness by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours. The Northeast blackout of 1965 (Great Northeast blackout) began at the height of rush hour, delaying millions of commuters, trapping 800,000 people in New York's subways, and stranding thousands more in office buildings, elevators, and trains. Ten thousand National Guardsmen and 5,000 off-duty policemen were called into service to prevent looting.
1965 – The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1969 – Simon & Garfunkel record the single "Bridge over Troubled Water.”
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.
1979 – 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.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down. One of the ugliest and most infamous symbols of the Cold War was soon reduced to rubble that was quickly snatched up by souvenir hunters. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
1993 – Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion United States dollars to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
2012 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Burma, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
2012 – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Dedication of the Cathedral Church of Our Most Holy Saviour. Greater Double.
Commemoration of St. Theodore, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran,
Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
Vitonus
Benignus of Armagh
Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
Vitonus
Benignus of Armagh
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Margery Kempe (Church of England)
Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)
Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Theoctiste of Lesbos (9th century)
Martyrs Claudius, Castor, Sempronian, and Nicostratus, of Pannonia (305)
John the Dwarf of Egypt, (c. 405)
Matrona, abbess, of Constantinople (492)
Symeon the Metaphrast of Constantinople (10th century)
Nectarios of Aegina (1920)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “She Who is Quick to Hear” of Mt. Athos (10th century)
Theoctiste of Lesbos (9th century)
Martyrs Claudius, Castor, Sempronian, and Nicostratus, of Pannonia (305)
John the Dwarf of Egypt, (c. 405)
Matrona, abbess, of Constantinople (492)
Symeon the Metaphrast of Constantinople (10th century)
Nectarios of Aegina (1920)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “She Who is Quick to Hear” of Mt. Athos (10th century)
Coptic Orthodox
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