How important is November 9 to you? If you are a Scorpio, then you’re definitely screaming that it’s your birth date. Well, did you know that history was made through various events on the same day you were born?
Yes, take a look!
- 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal.
- 1911 – George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.
- 1918 – Spiro Agnew, the 39th Vice President of the United States, was born.
- 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, the prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died.
- 1963 – Approximately 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion in Japan.
- 1963 – 160 people died in a train crash in Japan.
- 1965 – The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures.
- 1968 – USSR performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk.
- 1970 – President of France, Charles de Gaulle, died.
- 1972 – America performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1976 – Ten resolutions, condemning the apartheid government in South Africa, were approved by the U.N. General Assembly.
- 1979 – Iran was called upon by the United Nations Security Council to release all American hostages “without delay.”
- 1981 – The Internation Monetary Fund approved a $5.8 billion loan to India.
- 1981 – American troops began arriving in Egypt for a three-week Rapid Deployment Force exercise.
- 1985 – Gary Kasparov became the youngest person to win the World Chess Champion at 22 years old.
- 1990 – Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany.
- 1992 – Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, visited London & appealed for assistance in rescheduling his country’s debt.
- 2004 – U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.
- 2009 – 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- 2020 – Covid-19 cases in the United States surpassed 10 million.