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On this day...
November 9: Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan; Inventors' Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
* 1330 The Battle of Posada between Basarab I of Wallachia (pictured) and Charles I Robert of Hungary began near the present-day border of Oltenia and Severin, Romania.
* 1861 The first documented Canadian football match was played at University College, University of Toronto.
* 1938 Kristallnacht began in Nazi Germany as a part of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic policy, leading to the murder of over 90 Jews, and the arrest and deportation of over 25,000 others to concentration camps.
* 1953 Cambodia gained independence from France and became a constitutional monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk.
* 1967 Rolling Stone, the American-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics and popular culture, was first published.
* 1993 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar.
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