November 9th, 1954

Born on November 9th, 1954

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What happened on November 9th?

November 9th, 2019

Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the Indian border.

November 9th, 2016

A tram derailment in Croydon, London, killed seven people.

November 9th, 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).

November 9th, 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.

November 9th, 1967

The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.

November 9th, 1939

World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British Secret Intelligence Service agents near Venlo in the Netherlands.

November 9th, 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.

November 9th, 1918

The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured) that remains in use today with slight modifications by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.

November 9th, 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.

November 9th, 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.

November 9th, 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.

November 9th, 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.

November 9th, 1971

American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.

November 9th, 1970

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

November 9th, 1967

Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on November 9th

Born on November 9th, 1954

69

Brad Alan Lewis

American rower

*November 9th, 1954, Los Angeles

69

Dietrich Thurau

German cyclist

*November 9th, 1954, Frankfurt

62

Bernard Mitton

South African tennis player

*November 9th, 1954, Vryburg †May 5th, 2017, Newport Beach

69

Aed Carabao

Thai guitarist

*November 9th, 1954, Suphan Buri

69

José Amorín Batlle

Uruguayan politician

*November 9th, 1954, Montevideo

69

Debra Armstrong

American sprinter

*November 9th, 1954, Taylor

69

John Anthony Hardy

British geneticist (b. 1954)

*November 9th, 1954, United Kingdom

69

Sue Upton

British actress

*November 9th, 1954, Chadwell Heath

53

Genaro Celayeta

Spanish association football player (1954-2008)

*November 9th, 1954, Bera †February 9th, 2008

35

Shankar Nag

Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

*November 9th, 1954, Honnavar †September 30th, 1990, Davangere

Same Day
Who's birthday is on November 9th?

71

Andreas Aigmüller

German musician

*November 9th, 1952, Magdeburg

39

French Montana

Moroccan rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

62

Carl Sagan

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

*November 9th, 1934, Brooklyn †December 20th, 1996, Seattle

71

Sherrod Brown

American politician and educator (born 1952)

*November 9th, 1952, Mansfield

49

Alessandro Del Piero

Italian association football player

*November 9th, 1974, Conegliano

56

Daphne Guinness

British and Irish artist and personality

*November 9th, 1967, London

64

Thomas Quasthoff

German opera singer

*November 9th, 1959, Hildesheim

91

Alistair Horne

British writer and historian (1925-2017)

*November 9th, 1925, London †May 25th, 2017, Oxfordshire

86

Imre Kertész

Hungarian author

*November 9th, 1929, Budapest †March 31st, 2016, Budapest

42

Scottie Thompson

American actress

*November 9th, 1981, Richmond

63

Andreas Brehme

German footballer (1960–2024)

*November 9th, 1960, Hamburg †February 20th, 2024, Munich

94

Robert Frank

Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker (1924-2019)

*November 9th, 1924, Zürich †September 9th, 2019, Inverness

68

Kevin Andrews

Australian politician and lawyer

*November 9th, 1955, Sale

85

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)

*November 9th, 1914, Vienna †January 19th, 2000, Casselberry

52

Sabri Lamouchi

French association football player and manager

*November 9th, 1971, Lyon

71

Jack Szostak

American biologist

*November 9th, 1952, London

35

Lio Tipton

Actor and model from the United States

*November 9th, 1988, Minneapolis

72

Lou Ferrigno

American actor and bodybuilder

*November 9th, 1951, Brooklyn

63

Erika Mann

German actress and writer (1905-1969)

*November 9th, 1905, Munich †August 27th, 1969, Zürich

Same year
Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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