Today in History in 1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.

1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.

1456 - Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present-day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.

1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.

1494 – Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.

1520 - Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.

1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1688 - Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.

1729 – Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.

1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.

1791 - Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

1802 - From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.

1861 - The first-documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.

1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.

1867 - The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.

1880 - A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present-day Croatia. The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.

1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).

1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his 66th birthday.

1913 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.

1914 - World War I: The SMS Emden is sunk by the HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.

1917 - Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.

1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.

1918 – Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.

1923 – In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.

1936 - Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.

1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.

1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.

1944 - Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.

1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia, dies. As of 2013, he is the father of all the Saudi Kings that have reigned since his death.

1960 - Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.

1963 - At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.

1965 - In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.

1965 - A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.

1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.

1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.

1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

1989 – Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.

1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.

1994 – Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.

1997 - BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.

2000 - The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.

2004 – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.

2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

2005 – A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.

2007 - The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months.

2012 - Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.

2012 - David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.

2014 - Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.

2016 - A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.

2019 - A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.