9th November
1985 Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest ever world chess champion (22), with a 13-11 win over fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov, He always voiced against Putin.
1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
10th November
1848 Surendranath Banerjee, known as Rashtraguru, was born at Calcutta. He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
1919 Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and inventor of the AK-47, born in Kurya, Kuryinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia (d. 2013)
1990 Chandra Shekhar becomes 8th Prime Minister of India
11th November
1968 Maldives (in the Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex” for $30,800,000
12th November
1958 Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival
1970 Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
2003 With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
13th November
1927 New York-New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1980 US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
14th November
1832 First streetcar (horse-drawn) debuts in NYC;
1972 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
15th November
1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade
2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
