On this day 9th November
Some notable facts about this date, for more, visit http://www.onthisday.com
Facts
1494 Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1985 Gary Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion aged 22
1994 Chemical element Darmstadtium discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, German
1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing - largest civil settlement in US history
Deaths
1187 Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1874 Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1940 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (1937-40), dies of bowel cancer at 71
1970 Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1993 Stanley Myers, English movie composer (The Deer Hunter), dies at 63
2003 Art Carney, American actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners), dies of natural causes at 85
2004 Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50
2012 Bill Tarmey, English actor, dies at 71
Born on this day
1979 Martin Taylor, English footballer
Charles de Gaulle
Art Carney
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