Shimla, Nov. 9 Keekli Bureau
2004
Swedish writer and activist Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm, a year before The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment in his internationally acclaimed Millennium series, was published.
1996
Evander Holyfield scored a technical knockout of Mike Tyson to win the heavyweight boxing championship for a third time.
1985
Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old, defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest male world chess champion.
1953
Cambodia became independent from France.
1943
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was created by a 44-nation agreement.
1938
Beginning on this night, called Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” or “Night of Broken Glass”), some 48 hours of Nazi-orchestrated anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany and Austria, resulting in the destruction and vandalizing of synagogues and Jewish businesses and the deaths of at least 91 Jews.
1923
The Beer Hall Putsch led by Adolf Hitler ended after 16 Nazis were killed on a march toward the Marienplatz in the centre of Munich, Germany.
1923
Alice Coachman, the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, was born.
1922
Albert Einstein was named the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect; the Nobel committee had delayed awarding the 1921 physics prize until 1922.
1922
American singer and film actress Dorothy Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, was born.
1888
Jack the Ripper’s infamous killing spree in the Whitechapel district of London’s East End came to an end.
1877
Indian poet and philosopher Sir Muḥammad Iqbāl—who was known for his influential efforts to direct his fellow Muslims toward the establishment of a separate Muslim state, an aspiration that was eventually realized in the country of Pakistan—was born in Sialkot, India (now in Pakistan).
1799
The Coup of 18–19 Brumaire began in Paris, marking Napoleon’s rise to power and the end of the French Revolution.
