November 9 in the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union:.
1772 - Defeat of the Turkish Navy in the Battle of Patras off the coast of Greece.
1804 - The opening of the first Mytishchi gravity water pipeline in Moscow, which ran from the upper Yauza basin near the village of Mytishchi to Truvaniya Square.
1812 - After the battle in Lyakhovo, General Ugro surrendered to the Russian forces along with his brigade.
1818 - Russian realist writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev was born in Ural.
1917 - On November 9, the Council of People's Commissars adopted the Decree "On the Press".
1938 - On the night between November 9 and 10, a series of Jewish pogroms, known as Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, swept Germany and Austria.
1978 - In preparation for the 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, by order of the Ministry of the Interior of the Soviet Union, the first department of the police for special purposes was established under the Chief Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Executive Committee of the City of Moscow. Later, such units appeared in different regions of the country.