Historical timeline for November 9

U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.

Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.

A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.

A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.

At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.

The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST.

Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

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

Firefox 1.0 is released.

Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.

TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.

Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.

Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.

Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.

Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect a purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.