Nothing to write about here so I looked in the Chambers Book of Days and found ............
November the 9th is the 313th day of the year so only 52 days left of 2026.
In 1998 capital punishment was official abolished for all capital offences here in the UK, although it had been unused since 1964.
On 9th November 1989 it was announced that free passage through the Berlin Wall would be allowed and almost at once it started to be demolished, after keeping Berliners apart since 1961.
On 9th November 1960 John F Kennedy, at the age of 43, won the US Presidential election, becoming the youngest elected US President...although Theodore Roosevelt was a year younger when he took over as President after an assassination.
The first television recording happened on this day in 1947 when the service from the Cenotaph was filmed and recorded by the BBC for showing later in the evening.
In 1938 Nazi Paramilitaries and mobs in Germany and Austria began burning synagogues, vandalizing Jewish businesses and homes in what became known as Kristallnacht.
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