MONDAY, Nov. 9, 2026
1494-Piero the Unfortunate of the de' Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses power and flees the state 1799-Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul 1867-Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun in Japan, resigns due to intense political pressure from pro-imperial factions 1980-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares a…
Monday, Nov. 9, 2026
In 1494, Piero the Unfortunate, a de Medici family member and ruler of Florence, lost his power and fled the city. Nineteen years later, in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte orchestrated a coup and emerged as the dictator of France, taking the title of First Consul.
During Japan's Edo period, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and final Tokugawa Shogun, stepped down in 1867 due to overwhelming political pressure from pro-imperial factions. In 1980, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared a holy war against Iran.
In 1989, East Berlin lifted its border restrictions at the Bornholmer Strasse crossing, allowing thousands to cross into the West following a mistaken announcement by East German official Günter Schabowski. The year 1994 saw the discovery of chemical element 110, darmstadtium, at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.
In 1998, brokerage houses were ordered to pay $1.03 billion to NASDAQ investors in compensation for price-fixing, marking the largest civil settlement in US history at that time. More recently, in 2020, drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announced their COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated an effectiveness of over 90 percent in early results from their phase 3 trial.
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