Some MORE events that happened on: Nov. 9th
- Swedish writer and activist Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm.(2004)
-Evander Holyfield scored a technical knockout of Mike Tyson to win the heavyweight boxing championship for a third time.(1996)
-Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old, defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest male world chess champion.(1985)
-Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in American theatres.(1984)
Some MORE events that happened on: Nov. 9th Cont.
-Alice Coachman, the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, was born.(1923)
Albert Einstein was named the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.(1922)
-American singer and film actress Dorothy Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, was born.(1922)