About November 9
November 9, 2025 is the 313th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Scorpio is the sun 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 100 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 9
- 1282 –Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 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.
- 1620 –Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1764 –Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- 1793 –William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
- 1822 –The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
- 1887 –The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 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.
- 1937 –Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
- 1938 –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, also known as Kristallnacht.
- 1947 –India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
- 1953 –Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 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.
- 1994 –The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
- 1998 –Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 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.
- 2007 –The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
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