On This Day in History November 9, 2023 Historical Events 1494  Piero the Unfortunate of the de' Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state 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 1994  Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany 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 2020  Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Benjamin Banneker 1731 - 1806 Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996 Hedy Lamarr 1914 - 2000 Imre Kertész 1929 - 2016 More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Dylan Thomas 1914 - 1953 Ramsay MacDonald 1866 - 1937 More Famous Deaths November 9: Wayward Prince Blamed for Royal Death Prince Edward, born on this day, came to prefer pleasure to duty, causing tension, Queen Victoria believed, that would have fatal consequences. Read the Article