Today in
History ~ April 9
Events
1241 - Battle of Leignitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1454 - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais Royale, Paris)
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1816 - The first all-black U.S. religious denomination, the AME church, was organized in Philadelphia.
1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2,870 casualities
1865 - Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama
1865 - Robert E Lee & 26,765 troops surrender to US Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War
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1866 - Congress passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto, which granted blacks the rights and privileges of American citizenship and formed the basis for the 14th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1870 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 - Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1914 - Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1917 - Battle of Arras begins
1917 - Vimy Ridge, France stormed by Canadian troops
1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1939 - Black contralto Marian Anderson sang in concert from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) denied her use of Constitution Hall.
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1940 - Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II -- Denmark surrenders
1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1942 - American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious "Bataan Death March" which claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
1945 - German Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
1947 - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 - A series of tornadoes roared through at least 12 towns in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 169
people, injuring 1,300. One twister traveled 221 miles across three states.
1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia
1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
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1962 - 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell win
1962 - JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
1965 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1965 - The newly built Houston Astrodome featured its first baseball game, an exhibition between the Astros and the New York Yankees. Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
(The Astros won, 2-to-1.)
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr buried in Atlanta
1969 - 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
1976 - The United States and the Soviet Union agreed on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use.
1979 - 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1979 - The government declared the crisis was over at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.
1981 - US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
1989 - Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1989 - Soviet troops clashed with nationalist demonstrators in the capital of the Soviet republic of Georgia.
1991 - Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
1991 - The 1991 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded to John Updike for "Rabbit at Rest"; the drama prize went to Neil Simon for "Lost in Yonkers." In journalism, The Des Moines Register received the gold medal for public service for its series about rape victim Nancy Ziegenmeyer, who'd allowed her name and pictures to be used.
1992 - Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami of eight drug trafficking
and racketeering charges; he is serving a 30-year prison sentence.
1992 - Britain's Conservatives scored a come-from-behind national election victory, becoming the first British political party to win four straight elections this century.
John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
1993 - The Rev. Benjamin Chavis was chosen to head the NAACP, succeeding Benjamin Hooks.
1996 - In a dramatic shift of purse-string power, President Clinton signed a line-item veto bill into law. (However, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the veto as unconstitutional in 1998.)
1996 - Dan Rostenkowski, the once-powerful House Ways and Means chairman, pleaded guilty to two mail fraud charges in a deal that brought with it a 17-month prison term.
1996 - The United States began evacuating Americans from Liberia.
1997 - The CIA apologized to Gulf War veterans for failing to do a better job in supplying information to U.S. troops who blew up an Iraqi bunker later found to contain chemical weapons.
1997 - Social Security officials pulled the plug on an Internet site that provided individual earnings and retirement benefit records amid privacy concerns.
1997 - A government of unity was launched in Angola, three years after the end of the country's 19-year civil war, with the seating of 70 members of the rebel UNITA party in parliament.
1998 - Tornadoes and storms took 39 lives in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.
1999 - The president of the African nation of Niger was assassinated, reportedly by members of his own guard. Following his death, a military junta led by the commander of the presidential guards took power.
2000 - President Eduard Shevardnadze won a second term as leader of Georgia;
2000 - Peru's President Alberto Fujimori failed to win a first-round election victory, forcing a run-off in May that he won. However, a vote-fraud scandal forced him to step down later in the year.
2001 - President George W. Bush sent Congress details of his $1.96 trillion budget for fiscal 2002, in which he targeted scores of federal programs to make room for his 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax cut.
2001 - American Airlines' parent company acquired bankrupt Trans World Airlines, becoming America's No. 1 carrier.
Birthdays
Today
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1898 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
1898 - Paul Robeson (singer: Ol' Man River; actor: The Emperor Jones, Show Boat, Othello)
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [
1903 - Ward Bond (actor: Wagon Train, Gone with the Wind, Drums Along the Mohawk, It's a Wonderful Life, The Maltese Falcon, Mister Roberts, Rio Bravo, Tall in the Saddle, The Time of Your Life)
1906 - Antal Dorati (conductor)
1916 - Julian Dash (jazz musician: tenor sax: No Soap, Midnight Stroll, Double Shot, Gin Mill Special, Weddin' Blues, My Silent Love, Long Moan, Creamin', Goin' Along)
1920 - Art Van Damme (accordion)
1926 - Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicagp, magazine publisher (Playboy)
1926 - Jack Nichols (basketball)
1928 - Paul Arizin (Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA Silver Anniversary Team [1971]; Philadelphia Warriors: led league in scoring [1951-52] [1956-57]; NBA's fifth player to score over 10,000)
1932 - Carl Perkins (singer: Blue Suede Shoes, Your True Love, Honey Don't, Pink Pedal Pushers, Shine Shine, Cotton Top, Restless; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987)
1932 - Paul Krassner, founder and editor of The Realist also cartoonist (MAD mag)
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo (actor: Casino Royale, The Brain, Is Paris Burning, Swashbuckler, Le Magnifique, Love and the Frenchwoman)
1935 - Avery Schreiber (comedian: half of comedy duo Burns & Schreiber)
1939 - Michael Learned (Emmy Award-winning actress: The Waltons [1972-73, 1973-74, 1975-76; Nurse [1981-82]; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, All My Sons, Deadly Business, A Christmas Without Snow)
1940 - Jim Roberts (hockey)
1942 - Brandon de Wilde (actor: Shane, Hud, In Harm's Way, The Member of the Wedding, Goodbye My Lady, All Fall Down)
1943 - Terry Knight (singer: Groups: Terry Knight and the Pack: I Who Have Nothing; founded Grand Funk Railroad: On Time)
1945 - Alden Roche (football)
1946 - Nate Colbert (basketball)
1948 - Mike Parizeau (hockey)
1950 - Chuck Lefley (hockey)
1951 - Rob Schribner (football)
1952 - Clint Haslerig (football)
1952 - Rich Campeau (hockey)
1954 - Dennis Quaid, Houston TX, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
Famous
deaths
0715 - Constantine I,
Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
1483 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
1747 - Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat (Jacobite), last man beheaded in England
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian/antifascist, hanged by Nazis
1945 - Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
by Nazis
1945 - Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged by Nazis
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged by Nazis
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89
1961 - Zog I, [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
1962 - Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
1982 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
1996 - Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
2001 - Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Stargell died in Wilmington, N.C., at age 61.
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