Events
of the day
The
Inventors' Day
The Inventors' Day should :
encourage people to follow their
own ideas.
remember those inventors whose inventions
are still in daily use.
support inventors of the present,
visionaries and eccentrics to see
things in a different light.
stimulate discussion and cooperation
and bring change to our future
Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood diva and
inventor.
She is the prototype for the everyday
life an inventor, not because she
was an Edison, but simply because
she was someone that tried to realise
her idea.
She did not become rich or famous
from her idea (as an actress she
was already). Her invention however,
the frequency hopping process is
still in daily use and an integral
process in our mobile phones.
Her birthday, 9th November, has
been taken to represent all inventors
and this Inventors' Day
694
– Egica, a king of the Visigoths
of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding
Muslims, sentencing all Jews to
slavery.
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates
King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats
his cousin Frederick I of Austria
at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian
Voievode Basarab I defeats the
Hungarian army in an ambush
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene:
Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von
Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik),
last prince of Celje principality,
is assassinated in Belgrade.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between
Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 – The Family de' Medici are
expelled from Florence.
1520 – More than 50 people are
sentenced and executed in the
Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower
sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 – The Glorious Revolution:
William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds
the city of Cervia.
1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah
he-Hasid is burned down by Arab
creditors, leading to the expulsion
of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 – Spain, France and Great
Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive
of the Lenape during the French
and Indian War, is turned over
to forces commanded by Colonel
Henry Bouquet.
1780 – American 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.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin
Society of United Irishmen.
1793 – William Carey reaches the
Hooghly River.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads
the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire
ending the Directory government,
and becoming one of its three
Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 – The Action of 9 November
1822 between USS Alligator and
a squadron of piratical schooners
off the coast of Cuba.
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary,
is executed in Vienna.
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct
abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank
from Jeffersonville, Indiana,
and take him to Kentucky to stand
trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 – The Atlantic founded in
Boston.
1861 – The first documented football
match in Canada is played at University
College, University of Toronto.
1862 – American Civil War: Union
General Ambrose Burnside assumes
command of the Army of the Potomac,
after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands
power back to the Emperor of Japan,
starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of
1872.
1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles
of the Canadian Forces was founded.
Known then as the "90th Winnipeg
Battalion of Rifles".
1887 – The United States receives
rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary
Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the
first sitting President of the
United States to make an official
trip outside the country. He did
so to inspect progress on the
Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is
presented to King Edward VII on
his birthday.
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.
1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS
Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the
provisional government of Bolshevik
Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
abdicates after the German Revolution,
and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police
and government troops crush the
Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The
failed coup is the work of the
Nazis.
1935 – The Congress of Industrial
Organizations is founded in Atlantic
City, New Jersey by eight trade
unions belonging to the American
Federation of Labor.
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.
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti
Militari.
1947 – India forcibly annexes
Junagadh from Pakistan.
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent
from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named
president of Ford Motor Co., the
first non-Ford to serve in that
post. A month later, he quit to
join the newly-elected John F.
Kennedy administration.
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike,
Japan, an explosion kills 458,
and hospitalises 839 with carbon
monoxide poisoning.
1965 – Several U.S. states and
parts of Canada are hit by a series
of blackouts lasting up to 13
hours in the Northeast Blackout
of 1965.
1965 – Catholic Worker member
Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting
against the Vietnam War, sets
himself on fire in front of the
United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches
the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft
atop the first Saturn V rocket
from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – First issue of Rolling
Stone Magazine is published.
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme
Court of the United States votes
6 to 3 against hearing a case
to allow Massachusetts to enforce
its law granting residents the
right to refuse military service
in an undeclared war.
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.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of
the Soviet Union becomes the youngest
World Chess Champion by beating
Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet
Union.
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.
1993 – Stari most, the "old
bridge" in Bosnian Mostar
built in 1566, collapses after
several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium
is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge ordered
37 US brokerage houses to pay
1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ
investors to compensate for price-fixing.
This is the largest civil settlement
in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the
United Kingdom, already abolished
for murder, is completely abolished
for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission
of the European Space Agency is
launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Birthday
of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
Christian Feast Day:
Dedication of the Basilica di
San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral
of the Pope (memorial feast day)
Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic
Church)
Vitonus
Benignus of Armagh
November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Skulls or Dia de los
ñatitas (Bolivia)
Independence Day, celebrates the
independence of Cambodia from
France in 1953.
Inventor's Day (Germany, Austria,
Switzerland)
Schicksalstag (Germany)
World Freedom Day (United States)
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