Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 9
This is a list of selected November 9 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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November 9: Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan; Inventors' Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- 1330 – The Battle of Posada between Basarab I of Wallachia (pictured) and Charles I Robert of Hungary began near the present-day border of Oltenia and Severin, Romania.
- 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
- 1938 – Kristallnacht began in Nazi Germany as a part of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic policy, leading to the murder of over 90 Jews, and the arrest and deportation of over 25,000 others to concentration camps.
- 1953 – Cambodia gained independence from France and became a constitutional monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk.
- 1967 – French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline first appeared in the pages of Pilote magazine.
- 1989 – East Germany announced the opening of the inner German border and the Berlin Wall, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War, impending collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and beginning of the end of Soviet communism.