WHAT HAPPENED ON 9. NOVEMBER
Want to find out what all happened on 9. November

Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari. (9. November 1940)

Cambodia gains independence from France. (9. November 1953)

Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy. (9. November 1960)

At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. (9. November 1963)

Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965. (9. November 1965)

The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. (9. November 1965)

Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida. (9. November 1967)

The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. (9. November 1967)

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. (9. November 1970)

Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled. (9. November 1979)

Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union. (9. November 1985)

Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia. (9. November 1989)

Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing. (9. November 1993)

The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered. (9. November 1994)

A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. (9. November 1998)

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. (9. November 1998)

The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (9. November 2005)

Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people. (9. November 2005)

The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause. (9. November 2007)

A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Burma, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others. (9. November 2012)