Summary of the Day ✨ 9 November (09/11)
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced the world’s first whole eye transplant while the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War concluded with an armistice agreement signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. In other global developments, Catalonia held a self-determination consultation, a fuel train crash in northern Myanmar killed 27 people, and at least 27 more died in prison conflicts at Welikada in Colombo.
Historical Events 📜
- 2023: U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world’s first whole eye transplant.
- 2020: Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
- 2014: A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.
- 2012: A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
- 2012: At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
- 2011: The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.
- 2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2005: Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
- 2004: Firefox 1.0 is released.
- 2000: Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
- 1999: TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
- 1998: A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
- 1998: Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
- 1994: The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
- 1993: Stari Most, the “old bridge” in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
Famous Births 👶
- 1999: Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer
- 1996: Momo Hirai, Japanese dancer and singer
- 1995: Finn Cole, English actor
- 1995: Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster (died 2025)
- 1994: Lyrica Okano, American actress
- 1993: Pete Dunne, English wrestler
- 1990: Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
- 1989: Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
- 1988: Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1988: Lio Tipton, American actor and model
- 1986: Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1985: Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
- 1984: Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
- 1984: French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper
- 1984: Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Bobby Allison, American race car driver and businessman (born 1937)
- 2024: Lou Donaldson, American saxophonist (born 1926)
- 2024: Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (born 1943)
- 2024: Ella Jenkins, American folk singer (born 1924)
- 2023: Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (born 1950)
- 2021: Max Cleland, American politician (born 1942)
- 2017: Chuck Mosley, American singer songwriter (born 1959)
- 2017: Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (born 1982)
- 2016: Greg Ballard, American basketball player and coach (born 1955)
- 2015: Carol Doda, American actress and dancer (born 1937)
- 2015: Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1930)
- 2015: Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (born 1986)
- 2015: Byron Krieger, American fencer (born 1920)
- 2015: Andy White, Scottish drummer (born 1930)
- 2014: Rubén Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (born 1961)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
- Christian feast day:
Benignus of Armagh - Christian feast day:
Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day) - Christian feast day:
Margery Kempe (Church of England) - Christian feast day:
Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran) - Christian feast day:
Nectarios of Aegina - Christian feast day:
Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church) - Christian feast day:
Virgin of Almudena (Madrid) - Christian feast day:
Vitonus - Christian feast day:
November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)
- Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
- Inventors’ Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Uttarakhand Day (Uttarakhand, India)