📜 This Day in History

November 9

• 1822USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
• 1914World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos.
• 1938Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000 men to concentration camps.
• 1967The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
• 1993Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar.
• 2019The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century".

Born on this day

• 1818Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (died 1883)
• 1841Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)
• 1877Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (died 1938)
• 1934Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (died 1996)