9th of Ramadan
AH 559 (1144 AD): The Mamluk general Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusaders and captures their leader after retaking the Harem city of Syria
AH 1332 (1914 AD): Germany declares war on Russia. The war caused major poverty and the spread of unemployment, which led to the communist uprising of October in which the Bolshevik seized control of Russia
AH 1426 (2005 AD): The Syrian Minister of Interior Ghazi Kanaan commits suicide in his office three weeks after he was interrogated by the UN team commissioned to investigate the assassination of late Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri. An hour prior to his suicide, Kanaan said to a Lebanese channel that his statements could be his last