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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

A Day as Today - Dorian's Secrets — *Events that Happened “A Day as Today”*

November 9 – A Day as Today

324: in Rome (Italy), Pope Sylvester I consecrates the Archbasilica of the Savior and Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist).
694: in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (Spain) the XVII Council of Toledo is held. King Égica accuses the Jews of helping the Muslims, and sentences them to slavery.
1313: Louis of Bavaria defeats his cousin Frederick the Fair at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1375: in Castillo de Garcimuñoz (Spain), Alfonso de Aragón, first Marquis of Villena, grants the Privilege of Villazgo to Albacete.
1417: the Nasrid king of Granada Yusuf III dies, and Muhammad VIII succeeds him.
1441: in Spain, the town of Antequera is declared a city by a royal ID.
1539: the town of Camaná is founded in Peru.
1620: off the coast of Cape Cod (Massachusetts), the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower ship see land.
1697: in Italy, Pope Innocent XII founds the town of Cervia.
1720: In Jerusalem, the synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid (a Polish activist who made a large migration of Polish Jews to Israel) is burned by Muslim fanatics, leading to the Ashkenazi exile from Israel.
1770: In New Orleans, the enlightened Spanish-American governor Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga will compile his Ordinances, pioneering code and legal reference for the future United States.
1799: in France, Napoleon overthrows the Directory (Brumaire 18), establishes the consulate and becomes the first French consul.
1848: in Vienna (Austria) the imperial government executes the German democrat Robert Blum.
1857: The Atlantic magazine is founded in Boston.
1863: in the Dominican Republic, the commander of the Spanish army Valeriano Weyler, commanding a troop of 150 soldiers, loses his position on the Jaina River after three days of fighting against 500 pro-independence militiamen. It withdraws without leaving dead, wounded or material. For this action, he will be awarded the San Fernando Laureate Cross.
1867: In Japan, the emperor overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate, initiating the Meiji Restoration.
1872: the Great Boston Fire happens in the United States. At least 30 people die.
1879: in Madrid (Spain), the Castellana racecourse is inaugurated.
1879: in Lima (Peru), the juridical plenipotentiaries of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela sign a treaty to unify American legislation.
1888: In Whitechapel (in the East End of London), Mary Jane Kelly, fifth and last victim of Jack the Ripper, is assassinated in her room of Miller’s Court.
1900: in Madrid (Spain), the First Hispano-American Congress is inaugurated.
1909: in Madrid (Spain), a fire started in the boilers causes the destruction of the Teatro de la Zarzuela.
1913: The Great Great Lakes Cyclone of 1913 occurs in the Great Lakes region (between Canada and the United States), the largest natural disaster in the region. Destroy 19 ships and kill more than 250 people.
1917: the first animated film made in the world, The Apostle, is released in Argentina.
1918: at the close of the First World War, due to the defeat of Germany, Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates the crown. The first German republic begins.
1921: at the Congress of Civil Engineers meeting in France, Henri Bresier presents a tunnel project under the Strait of Gibraltar.
1923: in Germany the Munich Putsch organized by Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff fails.
1932: the Camagüey hurricane, category 5, makes landfall in Cuba – which the day before generated a storm surge that killed 110 people on Cayman Brac Island – which kills about 3,033 people in the provinces of Camagüey, Ciego de Ávila and Las Tunas . It was the deadliest hurricane to hit the island. In the city of Santa Cruz del Sur (Camagüey) alone, a 6-meter storm surge kills 2,500 people.1
1934: in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the third line of the Buenos Aires subway, Line C.
1937: in China, the Japanese occupy the city of Shanghai.
1938 – In Germany, the Nazis arrest and destroy the properties of more than 35,000 Jews on the Night of Broken Glass.
1940: in Barcelona (Spain) the Aranjuez Concert by Joaquín Rodrigo is premiered.
1953: Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1965: A 12-hour power outage affects seven states in the northeastern United States and two Canadian provinces, an event known as the Great Blackout, affecting 30 million people.
1965: in front of the United Nations building in New York, a member of the Catholic Worker Movement named Roger Allen LaPorte (22) commits suicide by setting himself on fire as a protest against the Vietnam War.
1967: From Cape Kennedy (Florida), NASA launches the Apollo 4 unmanned spacecraft using a Saturn V rocket.
1967: the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published in the United States.
1968: the European Economic Community enters into force the agreement on free movement of workers between member countries.
1979: Human error puts the United States on general pre-alert for thermonuclear war.
1981: in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the first popular demonstration against the Argentine military dictatorship is held since the 1976 coup.
1982: In Afghanistan, a Mujahideen ambush kills more than 1,000 young unarmed workers.
1983: in Spain, the Council of Ministers approves the draft law on conscientious objection and alternative social benefits.
1984: in Spain, the Government approves new norms by which the military service will last twelve months and begin at the age of nineteen.
1985: in Moscow, the 22-year-old Soviet Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champion by defeating his compatriot Anatoly Karpov.
1988: in two separate tunnels 289 meters underground, in the U3lk and U6i areas of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 12:15 (local time), The United States simultaneously detonates its Monahans 1 and 2 atomic bombs, weighing less than 20 kilotons respectively. They are the 1083 and 1084 bombs of the 1,132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1988: The horror film Child’s Play (Chucky: the diabolical doll) is released in theaters in the United States.
1989: the German Democratic Republic (communist) decides to open its borders to the West. The fall of the Berlin Wall.
1990: a new Constitution is issued in Nepal that restores democracy.
1993: in the town of Mostar (Bosnia), after several days of bombardment ―in the framework of the Bosnian War― the Stari Most Bridge, built in 1566, collapses. It will be rebuilt in 2003.
1994: in the Company for the Investigation of Heavy Ions, in Darmstadt (Germany) a new chemical element is discovered: the darmstadium.
1997: on the island of Margarita (Venezuela) the VII Ibero-American Summit is closed.
1997: The Montreal Treason is perpetrated in Canada.
1998: in Spain, Christianne Fando, the lawyer for ETA prisoners in the Algiers negotiations in 1987, declares after ten years of silence that an amnesty was agreed for ETA prisoners and those from the GAL.
1998: the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union believes that Spain can maintain the Cohesion Fund.
1998: In the United States, a federal judge orders 37 brokerages to pay $ 1.03 billion to defrauded NASDAQ investors to offset pricing. It is the largest civil settlement in the history of that country.
1998: in the United Kingdom, Tony Blair supports the minister who had to publicly declare his homosexuality to avoid being blackmailed.
1998: in the United Kingdom the death penalty is completely abolished, which was abolished only for murder cases.
1998: the European Union debates an urgent plan to rebuild Central America.
1999: in Spain, José María Aznar dismisses senior officials who benefited from AVE contracts, including relatives of the president of Renfe.
1999: at the meeting of the Socialist International it was observed that it is divided between Tony Blair’s Third Way and Lionel Jospin’s humanist left.
1999: in the European Union the period of coexistence of the euro with national currencies is limited to a maximum of two months.
1999: a few kilometers from Uruapan (Mexico) a flight of the TAESA airline crashes: 18 people die.
2000: in Spain: Pepe Rei is denounced for the video in which he justifies the murder of José Luis López de Lacalle.
2000: Spain closes its border to breeding cattle from France and Ireland due to mad cow disease.
2005: in Amman (Jordan), the 2005 attacks in Amman take place: Muslim fanatics carry out suicide attacks in three hotels. At least 67 people die.
2005: from the Baikonur cosmodrome (in Kazakhstan), the European Space Agency launches the Venus Express space probe towards Venus.
2010: Bon Jovi publishes his second compilation album, Greatest Hits.
2012: Justin Welby is named 105th Archbishop of Canterbury.
2014: in Catalonia (Spain), Artur Mas organizes a vote on the independence of the region.
2016: in the United States, Donald Trump wins the presidential elections and is proclaimed 45th president of the United States.
2019: in Paraguay, the first unique international soccer final of the Copa Sudamericana and CONMEBOL is held, which would end up being won by the Independiente del Valle club 3 to 1.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

Events and Curiosities in Dorian's Secrets — *Who was Born “A Day as Today”?*

November 9 – A Day as Today

1389: Elizabeth of Valois, French aristocrat, wife of Richard II of England (d. 1409).
1414: Albert III Achilles, Elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (d. 1486).
1455: John V of Nassau-Dillenburg, Count of Nassau (d. 1516).
1664: Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (d. 1486).
1683: George II, British King (d. 1760).
1719: Domenico Ponziani, Italian priest and theologian (d. 1796).
1723: Ana Amalia of Prussia, princess of Prussia (d. 1787)
1731: Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (d. 1806).
1732: Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse, French aristocrat (d. 1776).
1757: Antonio José Ruiz de Padrón, Spanish politician (d. 1823).
1773: Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish writer (d. 1856).
1777: Desideria Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1860).
1787: Johann Natterer, Austrian naturalist and explorer (d. 1843).
1799: Gustavo Gustavsson de Vasa, Swedish prince (d. 1877).
1808: Antonio Ros de Olano, Spanish military (d. 1886)
1818: Ivan Turguenev, Russian novelist (d. 1883).
1825: A. P. Hill, American general (d. 1865).
1832: Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873).
1834: Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (d. 1868).
1841: Edward VII, British King (d. 1910).
1843: José Meseguer y Costa, Spanish religious (d. 1920).
1850: Ignacio Bolívar, Spanish naturalist and entomologist (d. 1944).
1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906).
1854: Emilio Frers, Argentine lawyer and politician (d. 1923).
1858: José María Valle Riestra, Peruvian musician and composer (d. 1925)
1868: Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934).
1870: Magnus Enckell, Finnish painter (d. 1925).
1870: Carlos Padrós, Spanish businessman, co-founder of the Real Madrid Football Club (f. 1950).
1872: Fulgencio R. Moreno, Paraguayan journalist, economist, diplomat and historian (d. 1933).
1873: Otfrid Förster, German neurologist (d. 1941).
1873: Fritz Thyssen, German industrialist (d. 1951).
1874: Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish painter (d. 1930).
1876: Noguchi Hideyo, Japanese bacteriologist (d. 1928).
1877: Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet, philosopher and politician (d. 1938).
1877: Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician, first president of the Italian Republic (d. 1959).
1878: Ahn Chang-ho, Korean activist (d. 1938).
1880: Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (d. 1960).
1883: Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942).
1885: Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1954).
1885: Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922).
1885: Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952).
1885: Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955).
1886: Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (d. 1966).
1888: Jean Monnet, French economist (d. 1979).
1889: Andrés Saborit, journalist and Spanish trade unionist (d. 1980).
1891: Karl Loewenstein, German philosopher and political scientist (d. 1973).
1892: Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
1893: Orestes Caviglia, Argentine actor and filmmaker (d. 1971).
1894: Luis Gallo Porras, Peruvian politician (d. 1972).
1895: Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968).
1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, 1967 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry (d. 1978).
1898: Owen Barfield, British writer (d. 1997).
1902: Anthony Asquith, British filmmaker (d. 1968).
1903: Francesc Almela i Vives, Spanish writer and historian (d. 1967).
1903: Josefina Pla, Paraguayan poet and playwright of Spanish origin (f. 1999).
1904: Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician (d. 1948).
1905: Erika Mann, German actress and writer (d. 1969).
1906 – Gordon Stewart Northcott, serial killer (d. 1930).
1907: Luis Fernando de Prusia, opponent of Nazism and German patron (d. 1994).
1908: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa, Mexican politician (d. 1991).
1910: Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig, Argentine doctor (d. 2011).
1910: Chucho Monge, Mexican composer (f. 1964).
1911: Antonio Román, Spanish filmmaker (d. 1989).
1911: Diná Silveira de Queirós, Brazilian writer (d. 1982).
1914: Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress, inventor, and telecommunications engineer (d. 2000).
1915: Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011).
1918: Spiro Agnew, American vice president between 1969 and 1973 (d. 1996).
1918: Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general, co-founder of taekwondo (d. 2002).
1918: Thomas Ferebee, American military man, member of the Enola Gay crew, who carried out the first nuclear attack against the civilian population (d. 2000).
1920: Héctor Rueda Hernández, Colombian Archbishop (d. 2011).
1920: Ālenush Teriān, Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist (d. 2011).
1921: Pierrette Alarie, Canadian opera soprano (d. 2011).
1921: Lauro Olmo, Spanish playwright. (f. 1994).
1922: Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965).
1922: Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006).
1922: Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1974).
1923: Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist.
1923: James Schuyler, American poet (d. 1991).
1923: Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014).
1924: Robert Frank, Swiss photographer.
1924: Joy Page, American actress (f. 2008).
1925: Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016).
1926: Vicente Aranda, Spanish filmmaker (d. 2015).
1926: Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, Spanish writer (d. 2013).
1926: Ricardo de la Cierva, Spanish historian (d. 2015).
1926: Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (f. 1996).
1926: Jesús Fernández Santos, Spanish writer and filmmaker (d. 1988).
1926: Rafael Lesmes, Spanish footballer (d. 2012).
1926: Cornelis Zitman, Dutch sculptor and draftsman (d. 2016).
1928: Ramiro Otero Lugones, Bolivian idealist (d. 2013).
1928: Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974).
1929: Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, 2002 Nobel Prize winner for literature (d. 2016).
1929: Francisco Norden, Colombian filmmaker.
1930: Ignacio Ellacuría, Spanish theologian and philosopher (f. 1989).
1930: Paco Morán, Spanish actor (d. 2012).
1932: Eduardo Armstrong, founder and director of the magazine Mampato (d. 1973).
1932: Frank Selvy, American basketball player.
1934: Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician.
1934: Ronald Harwood, South African writer and playwright.
1934: Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996).
1935: Bob Gibson, American baseball player.
1935: Jorge Bonino, Argentine architect, actor, humorist and conceptual artist.
1936: Daniel Robert Graham, American politician.
1936: Roberto Guzmán, Mexican actor (f. 2002).
1936: Eduardo Punset, Spanish politician, writer, economist and scientific popularizer (f. 2019).
1936: Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992).
1936: Mary Travers, American singer, of the band Peter, Paul and Mary (d. 2009).
1936: Emilio Ybarra, Spanish banker.
1937: Gilda Lousek, Argentine actress (f. 1998).
1937: Roger McGough, British poet.
1937: Maricarmen Vela, Spanish actress.
1938: Bernard Tramont, French rally driver (d. 1997).
1939: Marco Bellocchio, Italian filmmaker.
1939: Alfonso Cabeza, doctor and president of Atlético de Madrid.
1941: Tom Fogerty, American musician, of the band Creedence (d. 1990).
1943: Horacio Pagani, Argentine sports journalist.
1944: Phil May, British singer, of the band The Pretty Things.
1945: Charles Robinson, American actor.
1946: Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter.
1946: Gustavo Corredor, Colombian painter, writer, film and television actor.
1946: Carlos Torres Vila, Argentine singer and composer (d. 2010).
1946: Marina Warner, British writer.
1947: Robert David Hall, American actor.
1948: Bille August, Danish filmmaker.
1948: Caloi, Argentine cartoonist and cartoonist (d. 2012).
1948: Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian soccer coach.
1951: Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor (The Incredible Hulk).
1951: Eduardo Maicas, Argentine cartoonist, graphic humorist and screenwriter.
1952: Jack Szostak, British biochemist, 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
1953: José Luis Luege Tamargo, Mexican politician.
1954: José Amorín Batlle, Uruguayan senator.
1954: Genaro Celayeta, Spanish soccer player (f. 2008).
1954: Bernard Mitton, South African tennis player.
1954: Dennis Stratton, British guitarist, of the band Iron Maiden.
1955: Karen Dotrice, British actress.
1955: Rosario Fernández Figueroa, Peruvian politician.
1955: Francisco Jódar, Spanish politician.
1955: Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian filmmaker.
1959: El Negro García López, Argentine rock musician and guitarist (d. 2014).
1959: Nick Hamilton, American professional wrestling referee.
1959: Sito Pons, Spanish motorcycle racer.
1959: Thomas Quasthoff, German singer.
1960: Andreas Brehme, German footballer.
1960: David Robinson, Panamanian biologist and writer.
1960: Fernando Gaitán, Colombian soap opera producer and screenwriter (f. 2019).
1960: Joëlle Ursull, Guadeloupe singer.
1961: Enrique Hrabina, Argentine soccer player.
1961: Clota Lanzetta, Argentine businessman, artist and singer (d. 2001).
1962: Sergio Batista, Argentine soccer player.
1962: Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress.
1964: Robert Duncan McNeill, actor and director of American television.
1965: Emilio Silva, co-founder of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory.
1965: Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone.
1968: Luis Mesa, Colombian actor.
1969: Sandy Denton, American singer, of the band Salt-N-Pepa.
1969: Allison Wolfe, singer-songwriter of punk rock, of the band Bratmobile.
1970: María Isabel Henao, Colombian television actress and social communicator.
1970: Chris Jericho, Canadian professional wrestler.
1970: Luis Lobo, Argentine tennis player.
1970: Susan Tedeschi, American singer of blues.
1970: Brad Jordan “Scarface”, American rapper.
1971: Big Pun, Puerto Rican rapper (f. 2000).
1971: Lady Noriega, Colombian actress, singer and model.
1972: Eric Dane, American actor.
1972: Florentino Fernández, Spanish showman.
1972: Corin Tucker, American musician, of the band Sleater-Kinney.
1973: Alyson Court, Canadian actress.
1973: Belén Esteban, Spanish television collaborator.
1973: Nick Lachey, American singer.
1973: Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer.
1974: Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer.
1974: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress.
1974: Verónica Butler (Verónica Valenzuela Cordero), Spanish writer.
1974: Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000).
1975: Maria Ribeiro, Brazilian actress.
1976: José Chatruc, Argentine footballer.
1976: Sheek Louch, American rapper.
1977: Omar Trujillo, Mexican soccer player.
1978: Steven López, American taekwondo fighter.
1978: Sisqó, African-American singer, of the band Dru Hill.
1979: Adam Dunn, American baseball player.
1979: Aitor Galdós, Spanish cyclist.
1980: Martín Ligüera, Uruguayan soccer player.
1980: Vanessa Minnillo, Philippine television presenter.
1980: Santiago Silva, Uruguayan soccer player.
1980: Óscar Vallejo, Mexican actor, guitarist and singer-songwriter.
1981: David Guapo, Spanish humorist.
1981: Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican soccer player.
1981: Mart Ojavee, Estonian cyclist.
1982: Pablo Bastianini, Argentine footballer.
1982: Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer.
1982: Arantxa Parra, Spanish tennis player.
1984: Delta Goodrem, Australian singer and actress.
1984: French Montana, Moroccan singer.
1984: Roldán Rodríguez, Spanish GP2 Series rider.
1985: Rosario Ortega, Argentine singer.
1986: Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer.
1987: Pambo, Mexican singer.
1988: Nikki Blonsky, American actress.
1989: Marcus Daniell, New Zealand tennis player.
1989: Billy Howle, British actor.
1990: Romain Bardet, French cyclist.
1990: Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer.
1994: MNEK, British singer.
1995: Finn Cole, British actor.
1996: Momo, member of the group Twice.
1997: Florian Bohnert, Luxembourgish footballer.
1998: Santiago Bueno, Uruguayan footballer.
1999: Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress and singer.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 9 – A Day as Today

959: Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (b.905).
1187: Song Gaozong, Chinese Emperor (b.1107).
1208: Sancha de Castilla, queen consort of Aragon (b. 1151).
1453: Ulrich II of Celje, Hungarian aristocrat (b.1406).
1504: Frederick I, Neapolitan King (b.1452).
1610: George Somers, English privateer and founder of Bermuda (b. 1554).
1623: William Camden, English historian (b. 1551).
1641: Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish aristocrat and cardinal (b. 1610).
1677: Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (b.1603).
1699: Hortensia Mancini, mistress of King Charles II of England (b. 1646).
1766: Sole Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch diplomat and composer (b. 1692).
1778: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian printmaker (b. 1720).
1782: Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Prussian painter (b. 1721).
1790: Juan Ramos de Lora, Spanish religious (b. 1722).
1801: Carl Stamitz, German-Czech composer (b. 1745).
1823: Rafael García Goyena, Ecuadorian writer, poet and jurist (b. 1766).
1848: Robert Blum, German politician (b.1807).
1853: Manuel Varela Limia, Spanish military man (b. 1796).
1863: Rafael Arístegui y Vélez, Spanish military man (b. 1794).
1881: Edwin Drake, American oilman (b. 1819).
1888: Mary Jane Kelly, British prostitute, fifth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863).
1911 – Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (b. 1853).
1918: Guillaume Apollinaire, French writer (b. 1880).
1920: Nectarius of Aegina, Turkish Bishop (b. 1846).
1921: José Villegas Cordero, Spanish painter (b. 1844).
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, US Senator (b.1850).
1932: Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player (b. 1860).
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.1866).
1938: Vasili Blücher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889).
1940: Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (b. 1869).
1940: Julián Zugazagoitia, Spanish politician (b. 1899).
1942: Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883).
1943: Borís Vladimirovich Románov, Russian aristocrat (b. 1877).
1944: Ignacio Bolívar, Spanish naturalist and entomologist (b. 1850).
1944: Frank Marshall, American chess player (b.1877).
1946: Salvador Mazza, Argentine doctor (b. 1886).
1947: Mariano Benlliure, Spanish sculptor (b. 1862).
1948: Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890).
1951: José Pareja Yébenes, Spanish physician and politician (b. 1888).
1952: Harold Innis, Canadian economist (b. 1894).
1952: Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (b.1874).
1953: Ibn Saud, Saudi King (b. 1880).
1953: Dylan Thomas, British writer (b.1914).
1959: Ramón Cabanillas, Spanish writer in Galician language (b. 1876).
1961: Carmelo Robledo, Argentine boxer (b.1912).
1964: Cecília Meireles, Brazilian writer (b.1901).
1965: Eduardo Abela, Cuban painter (b. 1889).
1967: Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891).
1968: Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist and composer (b.1931).
1968: Antonio Porchia, Argentine poet (b. 1885).
1970: Charles de Gaulle, French military man and statesman (b. 1890).
1971: Maude Fealy, American actress (b. 1883).
1976: Emilio Jimeno Gil, Spanish scientist (b. 1886).
1976: Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (b.1909).
1985: Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b.1946).
1991: Yves Montand, French actor and singer (b.1921).
1997: Helenio Herrera, Argentine soccer player and coach (b. 1910).
1998: Jesús Alviz, Spanish novelist and playwright (b. 1946).
1999: Mabel King, American actress (b.1932).
1999: Wolf Ruvinskis, actor, wrestler, magician, archer and Mexican businessman of Latvian origin (b. 1921).
2000: Antonio Alcalde Molinero, Spanish draftsman and painter (b.1906).
2000: Roberto Galán, Argentine television presenter (b.1917).
2000: Eric Morley, British businessman, founder of the Miss World pageant (b.1918).
2001: Gary Fuentes, Argentine singer (b.1962).
2001: Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b.1908).
2002: Amaro Flores Sienra, Uruguayan auctioneer, teacher, writer and journalist (b. 1928).
2002: Eusebio Tejera, Uruguayan soccer player (b.1922).
2003: Art Carney, American actor (b.1918).
2003: Gordon Onslow Ford, British painter (b.1912).
2004: Pola Alonso, Argentine actress (b.1923).
2004: Iris Chang, American writer and journalist of Chinese origin (b. 1968).
2004: Eugenio Domingo Solans, Spanish economist (b. 1945).
2004: Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954).
2005: Kocheril Raman Narayanan, President of India (b.1920).
2006: Ed Bradley, American journalist (b.1941).
2006: Marian Marsh, American actress (b.1913).
2006: Markus Wolf, German spy (b.1923).
2007: Candiota (Miguel García), Spanish troubadour (b.1936).
2007: Luis Herrera Campíns, lawyer, politician and Venezuelan president (b. 1925).
2007: José Moreno, Spanish actor (b.1933).
2008: Miriam Makeba, Mama Africa, South African singer and activist for human rights (b.1932).
2009: José Barragán Rodríguez, Spanish sculptor (b.1914).
2010: Ektor Kaknavatos, Greek poet and essayist (b.1920).
2011: Carl Nyrén, Swedish architect (b.1917).
2011: Har Gobind Khorana, American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (b.1922).
2012: Iurie Darie, Romanian actor (b.1929).
2014: Juan Antonio Flores Santana, Dominican Archbishop (b.1927).
2016: La Veneno, vedette, singer and Spanish actress (b.1964).
2017: Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b.1982)

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

November 9 – A Day as Today

Inventor’s Day, a date chosen in honor of Hedy Lamarr.
Guinness International Records Day.
United States:
- World Freedom Day
- Carl Sagan Day
Azerbaijan:
- Feast of the national flag.
Spain:
- Festivities of the Almudena, patron saint of Madrid.
- Balaguer: Festa Major.
- Tineo: Young Day.
Colombia:
- Bogotá: Bicycle Day.
Argentina:
- National Animation Day Argentina