Year 1710
Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized.
NOVEMBER 9
Daily Historical Chronicle
UPSC CSE • State PSC • SSC CGL Matrix
9 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 9 November.
Observances & Special Days
Legal Services Day (India)
Year 1851
Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
Year 1906
Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to leave the country during his tenure. They visited the Panama Canal.
Year 1909
The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.
Year 1913
Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
Year 1937
Japanese troops occupied the Chinese city of Shanghai.
Year 1947
Junagadh Sansthan was dissolved and taken over by the Government of India.
Year 1948
Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India.
Year 1953
Cambodia gained independence from France.
Year 1960
Robert McNamara became chairman of the Ford Motor Company.
Year 1967
The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
Year 1967
Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.
Year 1985
Prince Charles of Britain and Princess Diana were welcomed in America.
Year 1988
12 were killed in an accident at the Bharat Petroleum refinery in Mumbai.
Year 1989
The Berlin Wall was razed. The Berlin Wall divided not only the Germans but the entire world for nearly three decades.
Year 1990
JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party.
Year 1990
Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
Year 1992
Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
Year 1993
Tamil Nadu Assembly urges the Centre to amend Constitution to retain 69\% reservation for backward classes.
Year 1997
Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards.
Year 1997
Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.
Year 1998
India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi.
Year 1999
Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.
Year 2000
Establishment of Uttarakhand High Court.
Year 2019
The final judgment in the Ayodhya dispute was declared by the Supreme Court of India.
Born 1801
Gail Borden, inventor of skim milk.
Born 1841
Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and Emperor of India.
Born 1867
Shrimad Rajchandra, an Indian-Jain philosopher, scholar, and poet.
Born 1871
Padmnath Gohain, litterateur of modern Assamia Barua, was born.
Born 1877
Enrico de Nicola, first president of the Republic of Italy.
Born 1877
Mohammad Iqbal, Pakistani poet, philosopher, and political leader.
Born 1897
Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's "National Herald", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Editor'.
Born 1904
Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like "Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil".
Born 1914
Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian-American actress, inventor, and film producer.
Born 1918
Choi Hong Hi, inventor of the Taekwondo Martial Arts.
Born 1924
Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born.
Born 1931
L. M. Singhvi, Member of Lok Sabha, jurist, scholar, diplomat, and Indian Ambassador to England.
Born 1934
Carl Sagan, American astronaut, author, and scientist.
Born 1944
Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2015)
Born 1954
Shankar Nag, an Indian-Kannada actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Born 1972
Laxmi Poruri, guntur India and tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park), was born.
Born 1975
Subodh Bhave, a popular Indian-Marathi actor, writer, producer, and director.
Died 1236
Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated.
Died 1940
Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of England.
Died 1942
Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died.
Died 1952
Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel.
Died 1960
Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.
Died 1962
Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died.
Died 1970
Charles de Gaulle, French president, and general.
Died 1977
Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away.
Died 1980
P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away.
Died 2000
Eric Morley, creator of the Miss World pageant.
Died 2003
Vinod Bihari Verma, Indian-Maithili language writer, and poet.
Died 2005
K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (b. 1921)
Died 2011
Har Govind Khurana, Indo-US Nobel Laureate.