Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 9

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  William II, German Emperor
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  Philipp Scheidemann
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  People walking through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
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  Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
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  Prince Maximilian of Baden
• Basarab I of Wallachia
  Basarab I of Wallachia
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  Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu
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  Venus Express probe (artist's impression)
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  Croydon tram derailment
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  USS Alligator
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  Mary Jane Kelly
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  The rebuilt Stari Most
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  Venus Express

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Iqbal Day in Pakistan	date not cited, and lots of citations needed
; Independence Day in Cambodia (1953)	outdated, neutrality issues
; Inventors' Day in Austria, Germany and Switzerland	Nothing verifying this happens just in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, plus the material that is there for those countries constitutes less than what we'd expect in a stub
1729 – Great Britain, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Seville to end the Anglo-Spanish War, despite the underlying tensions being left unresolved.	Unref section
1799 – The [[Coup of 18 Brumaire|coup of Template:Nowrap]] led by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Napoleon deposed the French government, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.	refimprove section
1861 – The first documented Canadian football match was played at University College, University of Toronto.	refimprove section
1867 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shogun of Japan, tendered his resignation to the Emperor Meiji.	unreferenced section
1872 – The largest fire in Boston's history began, eventually destroying more than 750 buildings and causing $73.5 million in damage.	refimprove section, doubts over exact damage figure, internal inconsistency regarding timings, and other cites needed
1880 – A major earthquake struck Zagreb and destroyed many buildings, including its cathedral.	Stub
1918 – German emperor [[Wilhelm II|Template:Nowrap]] abdicated, Prince Maximilian of Baden resigned as Chancellor, and Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the Weimar Republic.	unreferenced sections
1965 – In the Northeast blackout of 1965, several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power outages lasting up to 13½ hours.	refimprove
1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in Pilote magazine.	uncited text
1998 – With the passing of the Human Rights Act, the European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into United Kingdom law.	refimprove section
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing a total of about 60 people and injuring at least 115 others.	refimprove section
2005 – The European Space Agency launched the Venus Express mission (artist's impression pictured) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the first long-term observation of the Venusian atmosphere.	Too much uncited
[[A. P. Hill|Template:Nowrap Hill]] |b|1825|	Too much uncited
Enrico De Nicola |b|1877|	refimprove
Sargent Shriver |b|1915|	"Unreferenced section" orange banner
K. R. Narayanan |d|2005|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 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 Template:HMAS sank Template:SMS, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos.
• 1938 – Kristallnacht 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.
• 1939 – World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service near Venlo in the Netherlands.
• 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
• 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).
• 1993 – Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar (rebuilt bridge pictured).
• 2016 – A tram derailment in Croydon, London, killed seven people.
• 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.

• Born/died: | Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani |b|1719| Lenore Romney |b|1908| Martha Settle Putney |b|1916| Harry Trott |d|1917| Henry Cabot Lodge |d|1924| Nadezhda Alliluyeva |d|1932| Neville Chamberlain |d|1940| Dylan Thomas |d|1953| Ibn Saud |d|1953| Andreas Brehme |b|1960| Nick Lachey |b|1973| Vanessa Lachey |b|1980| Markus Wolf |d|2006|

Notes

• History of American football appears on November 6, so Canadian football should not appear in the same year

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• 1822 – USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
• 1913 – A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
• 1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured), which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
• 1985 – At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
• 2019 – The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century".