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Announcement in the Wilmington Messenger on November 9, 1898
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945) | links to very short section |
| ; Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey (09:05 TRT/06:05 UTC) | refimprove section |
| 1444 – The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and John Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna in the final battle of the Crusade of Varna. | refimprove |
| 1766 – William Franklin, the last colonial governor of New Jersey, signed a charter establishing Queen's College, now Rutgers University. | CN tags (45) |
| 1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. | unreferenced/refimprove sections |
| 1894 - The rebel army of the Donghak Peasant Revolution retreated from the Battle of Ugeumchi, marking the beginning of the fall of the revolution. | Revolution: lots of CN tags (34); Battle: refimprove |
| 1919 – The American Legion, a veterans' mutual-aid society, held its first national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | article is mostly just lists of names |
| 1928 – Hirohito was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan. | appears on December 25 |
| 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution. | too many cn tags, needs a copyedit as well. |
| 1975 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism. | too many quotes |
| 1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov resigned and was replaced by Petar Mladenov. | Zhivkov: refimprove section; Mladenov: lots of CN tags in one section |
| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| | Birthday not cited |
| Maria Jane Williams |d|1873| | Deathday not cited |
| Paweł Jasienica |b|1909| | refimprove section |
| Canaan Banana |d|2003| | Yellow "lead too long" banner |
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- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.
- 1865 – Henry Wirz, the Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War officer executed for war crimes.
- 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
- 1937 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya (present-day logo depicted).
- 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
- 1975 – In Angola, the MPLA decisively defeated the FNLA in the Battle of Quifangondo, while Portugal simultaneously withdrew all its colonial and military personnel from Luanda.
- 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.
- 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
- 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
- 2020 – The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.
- Born/died: | Guðrøðr Óláfsson |d|1187| Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon |d|1293| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| Afzal Khan |d|1659| Scipione Piattoli |b|1749| Andrés Manuel del Río |b|1764| St. George Tucker |d|1827| Kaʻiminaʻauao |d|1848| Henry Wirz |d|1865| Louis Lingg |d|1887| Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu |b|1887| Arthur Rimbaud |d|1891| Neil Gaiman |b|1960| Henri Bontenbal |b|1982| Leonid Brezhnev |d|1982| Ricki-Lee Coulter |b|1985| Leona Woods |d|1986| Ken Saro-Wiwa |d|1995| Mary Millar |d|1998| Armand Duplantis |b|1999| Ken Kesey |d|2001| Robert Enke |d|2009|
Announcement in the Wilmington Messenger on November 9, 1898
- 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
- 1898 – White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre,(newspaper headline depicted) the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
- 1995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
- 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- Władysław Umiński (b. 1865)
- Richard Burton (b. 1925)
- Halina Reijn (b. 1975)
- Klaus Roth (d. 2015)
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