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.
- 1861 – The first documented Canadian football match was played at University College, University of Toronto.
- 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 – Rolling Stone, the American-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics and popular culture, was first published.
- 1993 – War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar.