On This Day: 9 November

9 November in Indian history

• 2019Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border.India
• 2000Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.India
• 1914World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos.India

9 November in world history

• 2020Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
• 1993Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar.
• 1989East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night.
• 1985At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
• 1979Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radar
• 1970Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
• 1967Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
• 1965A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
• 1942Battle of Stalingrad: German forces of the 6th Army under general Friedrich Paulus reach the river bank of the Volga, capturing 90% of the ruined city of Stalingrad and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets.
• 1939World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service near Venlo in the Netherlands.
• 1938Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000 men to concentration camps.
• 1938Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
• 1918The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag, which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
• 1918Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
• 1905The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election.

Born on 9 November

• 1999Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketerIndia
• 1979Adam Dunn, American baseball player
• 1960Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic
• 1944Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (died 2015)India
• 1920Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (died 2014)
• 1904Viktor Brack, German SS officer (died 1948)

Died on 9 November

• 2005K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (born 1921)India
• 1962Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (born 1858)India
• 1953Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (born 1859)
• 1187Emperor Gaozong of Song (born 1107)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 9 November in history?

2020: Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. 2019: Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border. 2000: Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh. 1993: Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar.

What happened on 9 November in Indian history?

2019: Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the India–Pakistan border. 2000: Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh. 1914: World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos.

Which famous people were born on 9 November?

Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer (1999); Adam Dunn, American baseball player (1979); Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic (1960); Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (died 2015) (1944).

Which day is observed on 9 November?

National Legal Services Day; Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan); Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia); Flag Day (Azerbaijan); Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953..