On This Day for November 9 - Opening of the Berlin Wall, Dylan Thomas is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. November 09 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Dylan Thomas READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1989 Opening of the Berlin Wall READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2004: Swedish writer and activist Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm, a year before The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment in his internationally acclaimed Millennium series, was published. [ Take our quiz about authors and poets.] 1985: Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old, defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest male world chess champion. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about chess.] 1953: Cambodia became independent from France. [Test your knowledge of Asia.] 1923: Alice Coachman, the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, was born. [Test your knowledge of Olympic history.] 1922: Albert Einstein was named the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect; the Nobel committee had delayed awarding the 1921 physics prize until 1922. [ Take our quiz about Albert Einstein.] 1922: American singer and film actress Dorothy Dandridge, the first Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, was born. [How much do you know about the Academy Awards?] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1934 Carl Sagan American astronomer 1841 Edward VII king of Great Britain and Ireland 1913 Hedy Lamarr Austrian-born American actress 1877 Muhammad Iqbal poet and philosopher 1918 Spiro Agnew vice president of United States 1922 Dorothy Dandridge American singer and actress SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help