Historical Events for 9th November 2023

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1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1907 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1950 - White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1966 - "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 performances
1983 - Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2015 - San Diego's SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
2018 - Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
2019 - YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul's second boxing match; KSI wins by split decision
2020 - 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm

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