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Today in History ~ November 9
Events0694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems; sentences them to slavery
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
1580 - Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1681 - Hungarian parliament promises Protestants freedom of religion
1799 - Napoleon becomes 1st consul of France
1821 - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Phila
1854 - Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres
1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 - 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1862 - General US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him (quickly rescinded)
1864 - Sherman designs his "March to the Sea"
1872 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1913 - Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands. Republic Germany proclaimed
1921 - Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 - German Nazis form SS (Schutzstaffel -- elite special forces)
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1933 - President Roosevelt set up the Civil Works Administration as an emergency depression agency to provide jobs for the unemployed.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1937 - Japanese army conquers Shanghai
1938 - Kristallnach (Crystal Night) - Nazis and other Germans smash windows, looted and burned synagogues and businesses in widespread attack on Jews [H]
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
1942 - Transport NR 44 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1946 - Pres Truman ends wage/price freeze
1950 - White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1953 - Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1953 - U.S. Supreme Court ruled major league baseball is not within the scope of federal anti-trust laws.
1955 - Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC
1961 - Brian Epstein meets the Beatles [H]
1961 - Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC
1963 - Twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash.
1965 - 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New England area of US and Ontario Canada hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. (great NY blackout)
1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."
1980 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1983 - Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1984 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington was completed by the addition of the Frederick Hart statue called "Three Servicemen."
1985 - Gary Kasparov , 22, became the youngest world chess champion, ending the 10-year reign of Anatoly Karpov in Moscow.
1989 - Aging Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping resigned from his last official position as chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission.
1989 - East Germany announced free passage for its citizens through border checkpoints. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall, the most reviled symbol of the Cold War, now virtually irrelevant 28 years after its construction.
1991 - President Bush returned from a four-day European trip that included a NATO summit.
1991 - Hong Kong reinitiated its controversial program of forced repatriation when Police forcibly repatriated 59 Vietnamese boat people, carrying them onto a transport plane.
1992 - Violence escalated along the Israeli-Lebanese border one day before the resumption of Middle East peace talks in Washington.
1993 - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1994 - Opening arguments began in New York in rapper/actor Tupac Shakur's sexual assault trial. He would be convicted.
1995 - Palestinian leader Yasser Araft visited Israel for the first time to offer his personal condolences to the widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
1996 - President Clinton used his weekly radio address to condemn the decision of the nation's distillers to end their voluntary ban on airing hard-liquor ads, calling it "simply irresponsible."
1996 - Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson to win the WBA heavyweight title in an 11-round fight in Las Vegas.
1997 - Congress approved a new charter for the Food and Drug Administration that will allow the agency to streamline and speed up its procedures for approving new drugs.
2000 - George W. Bush's lead over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming "an injustice unparalleled in our history."
Birthdays Today
1760 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1802 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
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)
1825 - Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), killed in 1865
1841 - [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psycho. pharmacology
1853 - Stanford White (architect: New York City's old Madison Square Garden, Washington Arch, Players, Century and Metropolitan Clubs)
1868 - Marie Dressler (Leila Koerber) (Academy Award-winning actress: Min and Bill [1930-31]; Anna Christie, Dinner at Eight)
1886 - Ed Wynn (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Ed Wynn Show [1949]; All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor; actor, Keenan Wynn's father)
1889 - Claude Rains (actor: Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia)
1891 - Clifton Webb (Webb Hollenbeck) (actor: Laura, Razor's Edge, Satan Never Sleeps, Titanic, Three Coins in the Fountain, Sitting Pretty, Mr. Belvedere series)
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill)
1905 - Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann
1906 - Arthur Rudolph, Nazi-turned-America rocket engineer
1913 - Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiessler) (actress: Algiers, White Cargo, Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl)
1918 - Florence Chadwick, San Diego Calif, swimmer (Hall of Fame 1970)
1918 - Spiro T. (Theodore) Agnew (U.S. Vice President under Richard Nixon [1969-73]: resigned 1973; Governor of Maryland)
1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, Cleveland OH, actress/singer/dancer (Porgy and Bess)
1930 - Charlie Jones (attorney; sportscaster: NBC Sports football/golf)
1931 - Big Daddy (Eugene) Lipscomb (football)
1931 - Whitey Herzog (baseball manager: Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, California Angels)
1934 - Carl Sagan (Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Cosmos, Contact; astronomer: "Billions and billions of stars...")
1935 - Bob Gibson (Baseball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher: career strike-outs: 3,000: Cy Young Award-winner [1968, 1970], Baseball Writers Award [1968]: World Series [1964, 1967, 1968])
1941 - Tom Fogerty (musician, songwriter, singer: group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend; solo: LP: Centerfield, Eye of the Zombie)
1942 - Tom Weiskopf (golf champion: British Open [1973]; shares individual record for lowest 18-hole total [63] in any round of the U.S. Open [6-12-1980])
1948 - Alan Gratzer (musician: drums: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Loving You, Take It on the Run)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno (bodybuilder: Mr. Universe; actor: The Incredible Hulk)
1996 - Cheyenne Pyle, Calif, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)
Famous deaths
1623 - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1932 - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1940 - Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister [H]
1943 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in Skin Trade), dies in White Horse bar in NYC at 39
1970 - Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1988 - Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75.
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
2000 - Hussein Abayat, a West Bank militia commander, was killed by a missile from an Israeli helicopter gunship
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