Today is Friday, November 9, the 313rd day of 2018. There are 52 days left in the year.
1848 — Post office at Clay & Pikeopens
1853 — Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of the Sun
1858 — First performance of New York Symphony Orchestra
1862 — U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1872 — Fire destroys nearly 1,000buildings in Boston
1877 — American Chemical Society chartered in New York
1885 — The opera "Ermine" is produced (London)
1904 — First airplane flight to last more than five minutes
1913 — Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 — Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272