The Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper, was published in London.
9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels
9th May 2017
The Book of Mormon is a key sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that was published by Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement, when he was twenty-four years old.
Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The world’s earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was created in China.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017