This Day in History for 9th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 163

694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery
1282 - Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 - Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1492 - Peace of Etaples (Henry VII & Charles VIII)
1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence
1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles
1526 - Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg
1541 - Queen Catharine Howard confined in London Tower
1569 - Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland
1580 - Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1673 - British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury
1681 - Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
1697 - Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 - Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1729 - Spain, France & England signs Treaty of Seville
1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1794 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1848 - Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1848 - Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1853 - Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt 1854 - Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres
1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 - 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 - 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1861 - Battle of Piketon, Ky
1862 - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 - 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1877 - American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 - Opera "Ermine," premieres in London
1888 - Jack Ripper's 5th & last probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1899 - Boerenaanval up Ladysmith, Natal, attack
1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1905 - Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1906 - T Roosevelt is 1st pres to visit other countries (P Rico & Panama)
1907 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1912 - Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest
1913 - Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
1918 - Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1918 - Republic Germany proclaimed
1921 - Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
1923 - Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 - German NSDAP form SS
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1927 - Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors
1930 - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 - Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1935 - Japan invades Shanghai China
1936 - Albanian government of Frasheri falls
1937 - Japans army conquers Shanghai
1937 - St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
Actress Greta Garbo 1939 - "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1941 - Hitler threatens bishop Clemens earl von Galen of Munster
1942 - German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1942 - Transport nr 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1944 - Walcheren of nazi troops purged
1946 - Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1949 - Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1950 - Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
1950 - Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 - White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1953 - Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1953 - KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
33rd US President Harry Truman 1953 - Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1955 - Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC
1955 - NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
1955 - UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics
1956 - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1961 - PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
1961 - Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1962 - Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
1963 - 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight
1963 - 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1964 - "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
1964 - Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1965 - 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 - 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1965 - Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
1965 - Willie Mays named NL MVP
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.

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 217

1389 - Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]
1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1541 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist
1656 - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
1664 - Johannes Speth, composer
1697 - Claudio Casciolini, composer
1710 - Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1732 - Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1760 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1795 - Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
1799 - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1802 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1809 - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877
1810 - Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1872
1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1812 - Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
1817 - Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1820 - Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1821 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer
1823 - William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1825 - Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865
1832 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1835 - Davorin Jenko, composer
1835 - Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1835 - Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer
1837 - Alfred Holmes, composer
1837 - Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 - [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1854 - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer
1868 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer
1868 - Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken)
1869 - Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short)
1871 - Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins
1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher
1877 - Jesus Castillo, composer
1877 - Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1879 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 - Rudolph Karel, composer
1882 - Joe Hardstaff Sr, cricketer ("Hotstuff" in 1907-08 MCC tour of Aust)
1883 - Edna May Oliver, [Nutter], Malden MA, actress (Little Women)
1884 - Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 - Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1887 - Gertrude Astor, Lakewood OH, actress (Carnival Lady)
1887 - Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress (Happiest Days of Your Life)
1888 - Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman (EGKS)
1889 - Snub Pollard, Melbourne Australia, actor (Don't Shove, Arizona Days)
1890 - George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 - Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
1897 - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1898 - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language
1900 - Kathy Negrin
1901 - John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial))
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Apr 9]
1903 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/Cardinal
1904 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 - Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann
1905 - James William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Mo)
1906 - Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1907 - Burrill Phillips, Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball)
1907 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince
1909 - Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder (Vrij Netherland)
1909 - Robert Douglas, [Finlayson], Bletchley Engld, actor (Adv of Don Juan)
1911 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1913 - Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps)
1914 - Colin Gray, airman
1915 - Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1915 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1918 - Howard Shanet, Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics)
1918 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), crook
1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor
1921 - Silvio O Conte, (Rep-R-MA, 1959- )
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
1922 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 - Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948)
1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, Cleveland OH, actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess)
1924 - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1935 - "Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1968 - Former "Led Zepellin" lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson
2002 - Eighties pop princess Sheena Easton (43) weds Beverly Hills plastic surgeon John Minoli (44) at Las Vegas City Hall
2007 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Ellen Pompeo (38) weds music producer Chris Ivery (38) in New York, New York
2012 - Tennis player James Blake (32) weds publicist Emily Snider (37) Del Mar, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2004 - Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 95 of 95

959 - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 - Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1580 - Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
1620 - Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1623 - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1641 - Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32
1677 - Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1754 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1829 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1874 - Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1897 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
1906 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1911 - Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1925 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
1927 - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1932 - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1939 - Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1942 - Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1943 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1948 - Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1951 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1955 - Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1959 - Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
1968 - Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37
1968 - Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies
1970 - William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
French President Charles de Gaulle (1970) 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1971 - Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90
1974 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976 - Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1977 - Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1978 - Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1978 - Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 - Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
1985 - Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1988 - Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
1988 - John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1991 - Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 - William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 - Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72
1993 - Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
1994 - Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1994 - Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
1995 - Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88
1995 - Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81
1996 - Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
1996 - Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2011 - Joel J. Tyler, judge who pronounced 'Deep Throat' obscene, dies of a heart attack at 90
2012 - Bill Tarmey, English actor, dies at 71