National days on November 9, 2026

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National Scrapple Day

Food · November 9

Scrapple is a sliced, pan-fried loaf of pork scraps, cornmeal and spices, a breakfast staple of the Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania Dutch country.

1862: American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. American Civil War
1887: The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor
1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965. Power outage
1998: A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing. Nasdaq
2023: U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant. NYU Langone Health