November 9 People walking through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin1888 Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London.1914 World WarI: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos.1939 World WarII: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service near Venlo in the Netherlands.1989 East German official Gnter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night (border crossing pictured).2019 Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the IndiaPakistan border.Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (b.1719)Lenore Romney (b.1908)Harry Trott (d.1917)Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d.1932)More anniversaries: November 8November 9November 10ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout