november 9th in history: what happened

In Moscow in 1804 opened the first water supply in the city.

In 1907, the Transvaal Colony presented King Edward VII with the Cullinan diamond, the largest ever found.

On this day, but in 1911, Parisian Georges Claude patented neon advertising.

In 1965, as a result of the largest accident in history in the power supply system, seven northeastern states of the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada plunged into the night from 9 to 10 November in darkness.

On November 10, an American businessman, philanthropist and inventor, developer of methods for preserving food products, including a method of preparing condensed milk Gail Borden (1801); writer, classic of Russian literature Ivan Turgenev (1818); Russian plant physiologist and microbiologist Dmitry Ivanovsky (1864), whose research into the causative agent of tobacco mosaics led to the discovery of viruses; composer, pianist, People's Artist of the USSR Alexandra Pakhmutova (1929).