On this day 9th November

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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