Daily Calendar – November 9

The 313th day of the year; 52 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

(Gospel readings for the 23rd week).

Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica (306); Martyrs Capitolina and her handmaid Erotis (304); Martyr Mark and his companions; Saint Procla, wife of Pontius Pilate (1st century).

The Holy Martyr Nestor suffered martyrdom in the year 306 in the city of Thessalonica, together with the Holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica.

The Venerable Nestor the Chronicler was born in the 1050s. While still a youth, he came to the Venerable Theodosius and placed himself under his obedience. The Venerable Nestor was tonsured a monk by Abbot Stephen, the successor of Saint Theodosius. During this same period, he was ordained a deacon. The Venerable Nestor highly valued true knowledge, when combined with humility and obedience.

The Venerable Nestor the Chronicler passed away around the year 1114. He is buried in the cave monastery of the Venerable Anthony of the Caves.

Born:

1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer; died in 1883.

1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer and one of the founders of the detective genre; died in 1873.

1841 – Edward VII, King of England; died in 1910.

1845 – Yevgeny Veidenbaum, Caucasianist and one of the founders of the Caucasian branch of the Archaeological Society; died in 1918.

1864 – Gandegili, Georgian poet and prose writer.

1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician; died in 1955.

1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist and initiator of European integration; died in 1959.

1901 – Solomon Kubaneishvili, Georgian literary scholar; died in 1986.

1910 – Davit Tavkhelidze, Georgian scientist in the field of the theory of mechanisms and machines.

Died:

959 – Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor.

1907 – Alexander (Aleksi Okropiridze), Georgian ecclesiastical and public figure.

1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet; born in 1880.

1940 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of England; born in 1869.

1952 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel; born in 1874.

1970 – Charles de Gaulle, general, French political and state figure, President; born in 1890.

1977 – David V (Khariton Devdariani), Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia.

1991 – Yves Montand, French actor and singer; born in 1921.

2004 – Tamaz Toloraia, Georgian actor (b. 1950).

2010 – Tamaz Chkhenkeli, Georgian poet, literary scholar, and translator (b. 1927).

2021 – Gela Charkviani, Georgian diplomat and writer.

Events:

1794 – The Russian army occupied Warsaw.

1900 – A 100,000-strong Russian army completed the occupation of Manchuria.

1906 – The distress signal "SOS" — "Save Our Souls" — was transmitted for the first time.

1911 – Georges Claude of Paris patented the neon sign.

1926 – A law was passed in Italy banning neo-fascist trade unions.

1938 – "Kristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass) in Nazi Germany: Jewish homes, schools, and synagogues were burned.

1965 – Capital punishment was abolished in Great Britain.

1967 – The spacecraft Surveyor 6 landed on the Moon.

1985 – 22-year-old Garry Kasparov became the World Chess Champion.

1989 – The demolition of the Berlin Wall began.

2007 – Under pressure from the opposition, the President of Georgia scheduled early presidential elections for January 5, to be held alongside a plebiscite to determine the date for parliamentary elections.

Holidays:

Azerbaijan, Flag Day.

Cambodia, Independence Day (1953). Ukraine, Day of Literature and Language.