On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 09:
1731 Benjamin Banneker Ellicott MD, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1802 Elijah P Lovejoy American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1818 Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1825 Ambrose P Hill Lt General (Commander 3rd Corps, ANV)
1841 Edward VII king of England (1901-10)
1850 Lewis Lewin Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacology
1886 Ed Wynn Philadelphia PA, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1898 Paul Robeson actor/singer/football star (King Solomon's Mines)
1903 Gregory Pincus inventor (birth control pill)
1905 James William Fulbright (Ex-Sen-D-ARK.)
1907 Burrill Phillips Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball)
1913 Hedy Lamarr actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1915 Sargent Shriver Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1918 Florence Chadwick swimmer (Swimming Hall of Fame)
1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew (R) 39th VP (1973-77), crook
1921 Viktor Chukarin USSR, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1931 Whitey Herzog baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 Carl Perkins singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Honey Don't)
1934 Carl Sagan NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
1935 Bob Gibson Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 Mikhail N Tal USSR, world chess champion (1960-61)
1942 Tom Weiskopf Ohio, PGA golfer (British Open 1973)
1945 Roger Lee Jones WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List)
1948 Sharon Stouder US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1951 Lou Ferrigno Brooklyn NY, body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk)
Deaths which occurred on November 09:
1874 Israel Bak created 1st hebrew printing press, dies
1952 Chaim Weizmann 1st President of Israel, dies at 57
1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880)
1953 Dylan Thomas author-poet, dies in NY at 39
1967 Charles Bickford actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 68
1970 Charles DeGaulle French President, dies at 79
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
1980 Victor Sen Yung actor (Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 Helen Rose costume designer, dies at 81
1988 John Mitchell former Attorney General, dies of heart attack in Washington
1991 Yves Montand actor, dies at 70 from a heart attack
2000 Hussein Abayat, a West Bank terrorist commander, was killed by a missile from an Israeli helicopter gunship
2003 Art Carney, actor (b.1918) died
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
09-Nov-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Nicholas A. Tomko Iskandariyah (W of) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
09-Nov-2004 14 | US: 14 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Abraham Simpson Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant David M. Caruso Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant John Byron Trotter Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Staff Sergeant Todd R. Cornell Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
US Staff Sergeant Russell L. Slay Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Nathan R. Wood Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Nicholas D. Larson Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal William C. James Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Juan E. Segura Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Lonny D. Wells Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Command Sergeant Major Steven W. Faulkenburg Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Travis A. Babbitt Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire
US Master Sergeant Steven E. Auchman Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Major Horst Gerhard "Gary" Moore Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0694 Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems; sentences them to slavery
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, Philadelphia
1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of the Sun
1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him (quickly rescinded)
1864 Sherman designs his "March to the Sea"
1864 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt leaves Washington, D.C., for a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of the United States
1913 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
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 United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.(CIO)
1938 "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night)-Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
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 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1961 PGA eliminates Caucasians only rule
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
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
1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 Ringo releases "Ringo" album
1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for the 1st time
1983 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1985 Gary Kasparov (USSR) becomes World Chess Champion at age of 22
1988 MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
1989 The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years.
1990 President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf
1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1997 Algerian terrorists disguised as policemen slit the throats of 28 civilians in 2 separate attacks in the northwest
2000 Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our history.”
(Sore-Loserman)
2001 Northern Alliance forces under Gen. Rashid Dostum claimed the capture of Mazar-e-Sharif.
2002 450,000 marched through Florence in a protest against globalization and U.S. policy in Iraq....and the high price of birkenstocks
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Pakistan : Iqbal Day
Tunisia : Arbor Day/Tree Festival Day
Turks & Caicos Island : Peacemaker's Day
US : Hire A Veteran Week (day 4)
US : Womens Veterans Recognition Week (Day 4)
Chaos Never Dies Day
One Nation Under God Month
Religious Observances
RC : Dedication of Church of Lateran (Basilica of Our Savior), Rome
RC-Vatican City : Feast of Dedication of Church of Lateran, Rome
Religious History
1538 German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.'
1800 Birth of Asa Mahan, American educator and Congregational clergyman. President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1835_1850, Mahan was instrumental in establishing interracial college enrollment and in the granting of college degrees to women.
1836 Birth of Christian business traveler Samuel Hill. In 1899 Hill, John Nicholson and W.J. Knights co_founded the Gideons, a Christian organization that ministers through distribution of the Scriptures. To date, the Gideons have placed over 12 million Bibles and 100 million New Testaments.
1837 British philanthropist Moses Montefiore, 52, became the first Jew to be knighted in England. Montefiore was a banking executive who devoted his life to the political and civil emancipation of English Jews.
1938 The worst Jewish pogrom in peacetime Germany took place as Nazi thugs led a "spontaneous" campaign of terror. During the night 267 synagogues were plundered, 7,500 shops were wrecked, 91 Jews were killed and 20,000 others were arrested and sent to concentration camps. It was afterward known as "Kristallnacht" because of the thousands of windows broken.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Golfer makes his way across UK
A golfer has played his way across Britain.
David Sullivan played his way from John O'Groats to Land's End in 70 days taking 247,387 strokes reports The Sun.
David from Oxted, Surrey is hoping to raise £250,000 for charities - and get in the Guinness Book of Records.
Thought for the day :
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
Guillaume Apollinaire
