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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selected anniversaries
November 9
People walking through
Checkpoint Charlie
in Berlin
1888
–
Mary Jane Kelly
, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer
Jack the Ripper
, was murdered in London.
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
.
1939
–
World War II
: A covert
Sicherheitsdienst
operation
captured two British agents
of the
Secret Intelligence Service
near
Venlo
in the Netherlands.
1989
– East German official
Günter Schabowski
mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the
inner German border
, resulting in the
fall of the Berlin Wall
that night
(border crossing pictured)
.
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
.
Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani
(
b.
1719)
Lenore Romney
(
b.
1908)
Harry Trott
(
d.
1917)
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
(
d.
1932)
More anniversaries:
November 8
November 9
November 10
In the news
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
(pictured)
wins
the United States presidential election
.
Maia Sandu
is
re-elected
President of Moldova
.
In baseball, the
Yokohama DeNA BayStars
defeat the
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
to win
the Japan Series
.
A canopy collapse
at Serbia's
Novi Sad railway station
kills fourteen people.
Did you know...
Kent shaving brushes
... that
Kent Brushes
have supplied their products
(examples pictured)
to every British monarch since
George IV
?
... that
He Jianshi
used
Chinese opera
to advance a revolution against the
Qing dynasty
?
... that crab is
served in school meals
in
Toyama Prefecture
?
... that
Aniello Prisco
was shot to death while trying to extort
a crime boss
?
... that the rural village of
Neath, New South Wales
, had a population of three
Tok Pisin
speakers in 2021?
... that Canadian microbiologist
Patricia Taylor
helped American diplomats hide in her house in Tehran during the
Iran hostage crisis
?
... that a "
glomping
circle" in 2008 reportedly lasted seven hours?
... that
Margaret Pargeter
published 49 books in eleven years, with another book following eleven years later?
... that the
Holy See
has
an official anime mascot
?