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November 9: Day of the Week
November 9, 2024 is the 314th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
November 9 Historical Event(s)
694
Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1793
William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1862
American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1888
Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1907
The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1917
Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
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.
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. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
1998
Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
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?
1414
Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1818
Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1885
Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1897
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
1926
Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1934
Ronald Harwood, South African author and playwright
1939
Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1969
Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1974
Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1980
Vanessa Minnillo, Filipino television personality
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