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November 9

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

36 years ago

Born this day

1934

Carl Sagan

Would be 91

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1066th

Konstantinos VII

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Famous births29

1841 · 184 yrs

Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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RoyaltyDied aged 68

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1868 · 157 yrs

Marie Dressler

Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known professionally as Marie Dressler, was a Canadian-born stage and screen actress, script editor, writer, and comedian. She was popular in Hollywood in early silent and Depression-era film.

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FilmDied aged 65

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1877 · 148 yrs

Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was an Islamic philosopher and poet.

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LiteratureWould be 148

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1877 · 148 yrs

Enrico de Nicola

Enrico De Nicola (Italian:; 9 November 1877 – 1 October 1959) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of Italy in 1948 and provisional head of state of republican Italy from 1946 to 1948.

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PoliticsWould be 148

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1885 · 140 yrs

Hermann Weyl

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl ( VILE; German:; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher.

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ScienceWould be 140

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1888 · 137 yrs

Jean Monnet

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (French:; 9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

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ScienceWould be 137

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1897 · 128 yrs

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

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ScienceWould be 128

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1907 · 118 yrs

Ko Takamoro

Ko Takamoro (高師康, Takamoro Ko; November 9, 1907 – March 26, 1995) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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1914 · 111 yrs

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II.

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TechnologyWould be 111

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1918 · 107 yrs

Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon.

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PoliticsWould be 107

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1922 · 103 yrs

Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), a performance which also earned her a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.

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MusicWould be 103

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1922 · 103 yrs

Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos (UK:, US:; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the…

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PhilosophyWould be 103

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Famous deaths20

AD 959 · 1066 yrs

Konstantinos VII

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Medieval Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Πορφυρογέννητος, romanized: Kōnstantīnos Porphyrogénnētos; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959.

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RoyaltyDied aged 54

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1492 · 533 yrs

Jami

Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (Persian: نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific…

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LiteratureDied aged 78

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1794 · 231 yrs

Hryhorii Skovoroda

Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda (Latin: Gregorius Scovoroda; Ukrainian: Григорій Савич Сковорода, Hryhorii Savych Skovoroda; Russian: Григорий Саввич Сковорода, Grigory Savvich Skovoroda; 3 December 1722 – 9 November 1794), was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and…

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PhilosophyDied aged 71

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1844 · 181 yrs

Ivan Krylov

Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (Russian: Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в; 13 February 1769 – 21 November 1844) is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of 40.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1918 · 107 yrs

Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire ( ə-POL-in-AIR, French:; born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a Polish-French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish, Swiss and Italian descent.

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LiteratureWould be 146

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1937 · 88 yrs

Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first briefly in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1940 · 85 yrs

Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1952 · 73 yrs

Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( KYME WYTES-mən; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was an Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1953 · 72 yrs

Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud (Arabic: عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ بْنِ فَيْصَلٍ آلِ سُعُود; 15 January 1876 – 9 November 1953), known in the Western world as Ibn Saud (Arabic: ابن سعود; Ibn Suʿūd), and known with his kunya Abu Turki (Arabic: أَبُو تُرْكِي), was a Najdi war leader,…

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RoyaltyWould be 150

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1953 · 72 yrs

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.

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LiteratureWould be 111

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1970 · 55 yrs

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and its puppet state of Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in…

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MilitaryWould be 135

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1991 · 34 yrs

Yves Montand

Ivo Livi (Italian:; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand (French:), was an Italian-born French actor and singer. Montand has been described as one of France's greatest 20th-century artists.

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Events5

1799 · 226 yrs

Coup of 18 Brumaire

The Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French.

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War

1989 · 36 yrs

Fall of the Berlin Wall

East Germany opens its border crossings, beginning the end of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War division of Europe.

Politics

1989 · 36 yrs

German reunification

German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung), also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic…

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History

2020 · 5 yrs

2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26, was the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 31 October to 13 November 2021 at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. The president of the conference was UK cabinet minister Alok Sharma.

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History

2020 · 5 yrs

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement

The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement was an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

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