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Historical events & facts — November 9
What happened on November 9?
On November 9, 1989, the East German government announced that citizens could freely cross the border into the West. Thousands of people gathered at the border crossings and began tearing down the Berlin Wall with hammers. The fall of the wall symbolised the end of the Cold War and paved the way for German reunification, completed less than a year later.
On November 9, 1934, astronomer Carl Sagan was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, who would become the greatest science communicator of the twentieth century. His television series Cosmos (1980) was watched by 500 million people worldwide. Sagan also pioneered the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and authored the novel Contact, adapted for film in 1997.
On November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and fled to the Netherlands, ending the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern. That same day, Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the Weimar Republic from a window of the Reichstag. Two days later, the armistice of November 11 ended the First World War.
Notable birthdays — November 9
Famous people born on November 9
Philippa of Guelders
Philippa of Guelders, was a Duchess consort of Lorraine. She served as regent of Lorraine in 1509 during the absence of her son. She was the great-grandmother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.
Florence Chadwick
Florence May Chadwick was an American swimmer known for long-distance open water swimming. She was the first woman to swim across the English Channel in both directions, setting a time record each time. She was also the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bosporus, and the Dardanelles.
Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes.
Mary Travers
Mary Allin Travers was an American singer who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. Travers grew up amid the burgeoning folk scene in New York City's Greenwich Village, and she released five solo albums. She was a contralto.
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