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Today In History - November 9 |
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1865 Confederate General Lee surrenders to the Union at Appomattox… The Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when the Confederate forces attacked a Federal (Union) fort at the Battle of Fort Sumter. Here are some statistics from that war: |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1414 Albrecht III Achilles 1541 Menso Alting 1656 Paul Aler 1664 Johannes Speth 1697 Claudio Casciolini 1710 Reynier de Klerk 1731 Benjamin Banneker 1760 Henri-Philippe Gerard 1795 Walter Geikie 1802 Elijah P. Lovejoy 1809 Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1810 Thomas Bragg 1812 Paul Abadie 1817 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby 1818 Ivan Turgenev 1820 Matthias de Vries 1821 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin 1823 William Henry Forney 1825 Ambrose Powell Hill 1835 Davorin Jenko 1835 Emile Gaboriau 1835 Jean-Theodore Radoux 1837 Alfred Holmes 1837 Gerrit Jan van Heek 1854 Joseph Miroslav Weber 1868 Andrea d' Angeli 1869 Marie Dressler 1871 Florence Sabin 1877 Allama Iqbal 1877 Jesus Castillo 1883 Edna May Oliver 1884 Hector Abbas 1885 Hermann Weyl 1886 Ed Wynn 1887 Gertrude Astor 1887 Muriel Aked 1888 Jean Monnet 1889 Snub Pollard 1891 Clifton Webb 1895 Mae Marsh 1897 Ronald G. W. Norrish 1898 Owen Barfield 1900 Kathy Negrin 1901 John Norrie McArthur 1902 Anthony Asquith 1903 Leon-Etienne Duval 1905 Erika Mann 1905 James William Fulbright 1906 Arthur Rudolph 1907 Burrill Phillips 1909 Robert Douglas 1911 Harriet Freezer 1913 Hedy Lamarr 1913 Thelma Hulbert 1914 Colin Gray 1915 Sargent Shriver 1918 Florence Chadwick 1918 Howard Shanet 1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew 1921 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy 1921 Silvio O. Conte 1921 Viktor Chukarin 1923 Dorothy Dandridge 1927 Carel W. H. Boshoff 1928 Anne Sexton 1928 Wim Bosboom 1929 Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova 1929 Severn Darden 1930 Charlie Jones 1931 Tommy Greenhough 1931 Whitey Herzog 1932 Carl Perkins 1932 Marian Christy 1934 Carl Sagan 1934 Ingvar Carlsson 1934 Ronald Harwood 1935 Bob Gibson 1936 Bob Graham 1936 Mary Travers 1937 Roger McCough 1940 Sergio Cervetti 1941 Tom Fogerty 1942 Stuart Lipton 1942 Thomas Daniel Weiskopf 1943 John Shepherd 1943 Lee Graziano 1944 Bill Hendon 1944 Phil May 1945 Roger Lee Jones 1948 Alan Gratzer 1948 Bille August 1948 Sharon Stouder 1951 Lou Ferrigno 1952 Sherrod Brown 1954 Dennis Stratton 1964 John Joseph Thomas 1964 Leah Pells 1965 Todd Gill 1966 Stefen Edberg 1966 Virgil Robertson 1967 Scott Bianco 1968 David Jones 1968 Jeff Brady 1969 Angel Miranda 1972 Laxmi Poruri 1972 Mark Fields 1972 Ron Rice 1972 Victoria Keil 1973 Fred Lindberg 1974 Dah-ve Chodan 1974 Traci Toguchi 1976 Laura Csortan 1977 Patricia Campbell 1996 Cheyenne Pyle |
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On This Date in History |
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694 The Spanish King Egica accuses the Jews of aiding Moslems that were sentenced to slavery 1282 Pope Martinus IV excommunicates King Pedro III of Aragonorth 1492 The Peace of Etaples 1494 The de' Medici family become the rulers of Florence 1520 Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles 1526 The Jews are expelled from Pressburg, Hungary 1541 Queen Catharine Howard is confined in the Tower of London 1569 A catholic uprising under Northumberland and Westmoreland 1580 The Spanish troops lands in Ireland 1673 British King Charles II dismisses the Earl of Shaftesbury 1681 The Hungarian parliament promises Protestants freedom of religion 1720 The Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue is set afire 1729 Spain, France, and England sign the Treaty of Seville 1794 Russian troops occupy Warsaw, Poland 1799 Napoleon becomes ruler of France 1821 The first U.S. pharmacy college holds its first classes in Philadelphia 1853 Origin of the Carrington rotation numbers for the rotation of the Sun 1857 The Atlantic Monthly magazine is first published 1858 The first performance of the New York Symphony Orchestra 1861 The first documented Canadian football game is played at the University of Toronto 1862 President U.S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him 1864 General Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea" 1865 Confederate General Lee surrenders to the Union at Appomattox 1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston, MA 1877 The American Chemical Society is chartered in New York 1904 The first airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes 1906 Teddy Roosevelt becomes the first President to visit other countries 1913 The great storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on the Great Lakes 1915 The Italian liner Ancona is sunk by German torpedos: killing 272 people 1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after the German defeat in WW I 1918 The Republic of Germany is proclaimed 1921 Partito Nazionalista Fascista, is formed in Italy by Mussolini 1924 Miriam Ferguson becomes the first elected woman governor: Texas 1925 The German NSDAP forms the SS 1927 A Giant Panda is discovered in China 1927 Pastor of Have begins the blessing of motorcars 1930 The first nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama 1932 A hurricane force storm wave hits Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba and kills 2,500 people 1935 The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms 1935 Japan invades Shanghai, China 1936 The Albanian government of Frasheri falls 1937 The Japanese Army conquers Shanghai 1938 Al Capp, cartoonist/creator of Lil' Abner, creates "Sadie Hawkins Day" 1938 Crystal Night" The Germans break windows in houses owned by Jews 1939 "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres 1939 The Nobel Prize for physics is awarded to Ernest O. Lawrence 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark 1941 Hitler threatens Bishop Clemens earl von Galen of Munster 1942 German occupiers place Erik Scavenius as the Danish Premier 1944 The Red Cross wins Nobel Peace Prize 1946 President Truman ends the wage/price freeze 1949 Costa Rica adopts a Constitution 1953 Cambodia gains independence within the French Union 1953 Supreme Court rules that Major League baseball is exempt from anti-trust laws 1955 The U.N. formally disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics 1961 The PGA eliminates the 'Caucasians Only' rule 1962 Dutch Catharina Lodders is elected Miss World 1962 The U.S. performs a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site 1963 450 people die in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people die in a train crash in Japan 1964 Eisaku Sato becomes the Premier of Japan 1965 The New York Blackout: 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New England and Ontario 1966 The Oakland Coliseum Arena opens 1967 The first unmanned Saturn V flight to test the Apollo 4 re-entry module 1968 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests 1970 The trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins 1971 John List kills his family and moves to Colorado 1972 The U.S. performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 A fire at the Taiyo department store kills 101 people and injures 84 in Kumamoto Japan 1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares a Holy War against Iran 1980 Tatsuko Ohsako wins the LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires - for the first time 1983 Amsterdam brewer, Freddie Heineken, is kidnapped 1984 Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith to win the heavyweight boxing title 1984 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is completed 1985 Gary Kasparov becomes the world chess champion 1985 Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst kills eight people 1989 East Berlin opens its borders 1990 The Tanzania government of Malecela forms 1993 The Serbian Army fires on a school in Sarajevo and kill 9 children 1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga is chosen the first female president of Sri Lanka 1997 The Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship 1997 Liselotte Neumann wins the LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup |
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