Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 9

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 * 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London.
 * 1914 – World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney (1912) sank SMS Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean.
 * 1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured) that remains in use today with slight modifications by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
 * 1939 – World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British Secret Intelligence Service agents near Venlo in the Netherlands.
 * 1989 – East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night.
 * 2016 – A tram derailment in Croydon, London, killed seven people.
 * 2019 – Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the Indian border.


 * Born/died: | Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani |b|1719| Martha Settle Putney |b|1916| Harry Trott |d|1917| Nadezhda Alliluyeva |d|1932| Neville Chamberlain |d|1940 |