What are the important events that happened on November 9? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 9: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 9 is the 314^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 27, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,731,110,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecatetragon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 81 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,341 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 9 Historical Events

• 1492 –
  Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
• 1688 –
  The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
• 1729 –
  Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
• 1793 –
  William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
• 1848 –
  Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
• 1963 –
  At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
• 1967 –
  Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on November 9?

• 1664 –
  Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
• 1874 –
  Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
• 1880 –
  Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
• 1886 –
  S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
• 1890 –
  George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
• 1902 –
  Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
• 1942 –
  Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
• 1946 –
  Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter
• 1961 –
  Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
• 1969 –
  Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)

Who died on November 9?

• 1516 –
  King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
• 1770 –
  John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
• 1888 –
  Mary Jane Kelly, British victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
• 1940 –
  Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
• 1942 –
  Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1953 –
  King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud the first monarch of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
• 1977 –
  Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1980 –
  Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 –
  Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili littérateur (b. 1937)
• 2006 –
  Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)