November 9: Day of the Week
November 9, 2022 is the 313th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.
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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.
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November 9 Historical Event(s)
- 694Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1330Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1697Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
- 1764Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
- 1780American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
- 1907The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- 1917Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
- 1938Nazi 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.
- 1953Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- 1989Cold 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.
Who were born on November 9?
- 1897Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- 1906Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
- 1926Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
- 1929Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
- 1948Bille August, Danish film and television director
- 1955Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
- 1965Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
- 1969Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
- 1970Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
- 1974Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
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