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1414 Albrecht III Achilles, ruler of Brandenburg 1467 Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen 1731 Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC) 1802 El˜ah 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 1817 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers) 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) 1820 Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling) 1823 William Henry Forney, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 1825 Ambrose P Hill, Lt General (Commander 3rd Corps, ANV) 1825 Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1865 1835 Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels) 1841 [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10) 1850 Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist 1868 Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken) 1869 Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Canada actress (Caught Short) 1877 Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher 1883 Edna May Oliver [Nutter], US, actress (Little Women) 1886 Ed Wynn, [Isaiah E Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show) 1888 Jean Monnet, chairman (EGKS) 1891 Clifton Webb, actor (Sitting Pretty, Mr Belvedere Goes to College) 1897 Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967) 1898 Paul Robeson, actor/singer/football star (King Solomon's Mines) 19-- Charles Robinson, Houston Tx, actor (Mac-Night Court, Buffalo Bill) 19-- Pauline Myers, Ocillla Ga, actress (Gloria-Storefront Lawyer) 1900 Kathy Negrin 1902 Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V.C. (Court martial)) 1903 Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) 1903 Ward Bond, actor (Quiet Man, Ft Apache) (or 4/9/1905) 1905 Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann 1905 James William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Mo) 1907 Burrill Phillips, Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball) 1909 Hendrik van Randw˜k, author/founder "Vr˜ Netherland" 1913 Hedy Lamarr, Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah) 1915 Sargent Shriver, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp 1918 Florence Chadwick, San Diego Calif, swimmer (Hall of Fame 1970) 1918 Howard Shanet, Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics) 1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), crook 1921 Silvio O Conte, (Rep-R-MA, 1959- ) 1921 Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56) 1923 Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948) 1923 Dorothy Dandridge, US, actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess) 1928 Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967) 1928 Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host 1930 Charlie Jones, Ft Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes) 1931 Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals) 1932 Carl Perkins, singer (Blue Suede Shoes) 1932 Marian Christy, Ridgefield Ct, author (Invasions of Privacy) 1934 Carl Sagan, NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain) 1934 Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden (1986- ) 1935 Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968) 1936 Bob Graham, (Sen-D Florida) 1936 Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary) 1936 Mikhail N Tai, Latvia, World chess champion (1960-61) 1942 Tom Weiskopf, Ohio, PGA golfer (British Open 1973) 1944 Bill Hendon, (Rep-R-NC, 1981-83, 85-87) 1945 Roger Lee Jones, WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List) 1948 Sharon Stouder, US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964) 1951 Lou Ferrigno, Bkln NY, body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk) 1952 Sherrod Brown, (Rep-D-Ohio) 1964 John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia Calif, actor (Young Dan'l Boone) 1969 Pepa, rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang) 1974 Dah-ve Chodan, actress (Tia-Uncle Buck) Back to GREGSITE Passings for November 09959 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies 1068 Agnes van Poitou, duchess of Aquitan/mother of German Emperoress, dies 1641 Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32 1874 Israel Bak, created 1st hebrew printing press, dies 1918 Guillaume Apollinaire, [Wilhelm Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies 1925 Danial Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies 1932 Wife of Joseph Stalin, dies 1939 Dirk Knock, Dutch lieutenant, shot to death by German Abwehr 1943 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67 1952 Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemistry/1st president Israel, dies at 77 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 1967 Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 68 1970 William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84 1976 Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56 1978 Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75 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 (Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65 1985 Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81 1985 Mary MacLaren, actress, dies at 85 of respiratory problems 1988 John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington 1988 Victor Sen Yung, US, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza/Bachelor party), dies 1991 Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies 1991 Yves Montand, actor, dies at 70 of a heart attack 1992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies Back to GREGSITE Holidays for November 09[Cambodia] Independence Day (1953) [Pakistan] Iqbal Day [Tunisia] Arbor Day/Tree Festival Day [Turks & Caicos Island] Peacemaker's Day [England] Lord Mayor's Day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for November 09[RC] Dedication of Church of Lateran (Basilica of Our Savior), Rome 324 [RC-Vatican City] Feast of Dedication of Church of Lateran, Rome Back to GREGSITE Special events for November 09 Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)-Rememberance of holocaust Sadie Hawkins Day (ladies take initiative!) 1492 Peace of Etaples (Henry VII & Charles VIII) 1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg 1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire 1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France 1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Phila 1848 Post office at Clay & Pike opens 1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun 1858 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra 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" 1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox 1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston 1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY 1885 Opera "Ermine" is produced (London) 1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes 1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages 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 1921 Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini 1921 W Baade discovers asteroid #966 Muschi, #967 Helionape & #1103 Sequoia 1923 Bear Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow govt in Germany 1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas) 1925 German NSDAP form SS 1927 Giant Panda discovered, China 1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama 1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms 1936 Albanian govt of Frasheri falls 1937 Japans army conquerors Shanghai 1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day 1938 Crystal Night - Germans break windows owned by Jews 1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron) 1939 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents 1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark in WW II 1942 German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize 1949 Costa Rica adopts Constitution 1950 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1851 Lacroute 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union 1953 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3265 1953 KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws 1955 UN disapproves of South-Africa's apartheid politics 1961 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m 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) 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 Willie Mays named NL MVP 1967 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module 1967 Surveyor 6 soft lands on the Moon 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins 1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado 1973 Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) 1973 Ringo releases "Ringo" album 1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2075 Martinez 1974 P Wild discovers asteroid #2950 1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1977 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2089 Cetacea 1978 NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions 1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2600 Lumme & #3015 Candy 1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time 1983 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center 1984 Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43 1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed 1988 MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7) 1989 East Berlin opens its borders 1992 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in Las Vegas Nevada 1992 Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco" Back to GREGSITE Facts for November 09313th day of year with 52 days left (Numerology = 2) 1975 75øF highest temperature for this date in NYC 1976 24øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on November 0911/09/51 --- Charmaine --- Mantovani & His Orchestra 11/09/51 --- Shrimp Boats --- Stafford, Jo 11/09/59 --- Be My Guest --- Domino, Fats 11/09/68 --- For Once In My Life --- Wonder, Stevie 11/09/74 --- Kung Fu Fighting --- Douglas, Carl 11/09/85 --- Party All The Time --- Murphy, Eddie 11/09/85 --- Say You, Say Me --- Richie, Lionel 11/09/91 --- Finally --- Ce Ce Peniston 11/09/91 --- All 4 Love --- Color Me 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