9th November anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1909
  • "Birth of Katherine Hepburn, American film, stage and television actress (The African Queen, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, On Golden Pond)"
  • 1934
  • "Birth of Carl Sagan, American astronomer, science writer and broadcaster"
• event
  • 1492
  • Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII of France – improvement in relations continued until the end of Henry's reign
  • 1729
  • "Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain – Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar "
  • 1859
  • The British Army abolished flogging as a punishment
  • 1907
  • The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
  • 1908
  • "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became Britain’s first woman mayor when she was elected at Aldeburgh, Suffolk."
  • 1938
  • Austria
  • Kristallnacht – ‘Night of (broken) glass’ – Nazis burned 267 synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses in Germany.
  • 1979
  • Great Britain
  • Four men were found guilty of killing British paperboy Carl Bridgewater
  • 1983
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch brewer Alfred Heineken was kidnapped and a ransom demand issued for more than $10 million (Note: released unharmed 3 weeks later).
  • 1989
  • "The day the Berlin Wall fell. East Germany reopened it border with West Germany, allowing its citizens to pass freely through the checkpoints"
• Death