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What happened in history on this day: November 9?
On November 9 in ...
- 1821 - First US pharmacy college holds first classes, Philadelphia.
- 1858 - First performance of New York Symphony Orchestra.
- 1861 - Battle of Piketon, Kentucky.
- 1862 - USA General Ulysses Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him.
- 1865 - Confederate General Robert Lee surrenders to USA General Ulysses Grant at Appomattox.
- 1872 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1877 - American Chemical Society chartered in New York.
- 1913 - Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks eight ore-carriers on Great Lakes.
- 1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes governor of Texas.
- 1930 - First nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama.
- 1935 - US Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms.
- 1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day.
- 1953 - US Supreme Court rules Major League Baseball exempt from anti-trust laws.
- 1965 - The biggest power failure in U.S. history occurs as all of New York state, portions of seven neighboring states, and parts of eastern Canada are plunged into darkness. The blackout was caused by the tripping of a transmission line near Ontario, Canada. The cascading effect onto other transmission lines eventually takes down the entire Northeastern network. 30 million people in eight U.S. states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec are affected by the blackout.
- 1967 - NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- 1968 - In southern Illinois, USA, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs, felt over 23 states; minor damage only.
- 1979 - The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detect purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
- 1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed.
- 1990 - US President George Bush announces doubling of US forces in Persian Gulf.
- 1993 - Voters of Palau approve establishment of a Compact of Free Association with the USA.
- 1998 - In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge approves a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ.
Births on November 9
- 1886 - Birth of Isaiah Edwin Leopold AKA Ed Wynn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comic/actor (The Ed Wynn Show, All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor).
- 1907 - Birth of Burrill Phillips in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; composer (Play Ball).
- 1915 - Birth of Robert Sargent Shriver AKA Sargent Shriver in Westminster, Maryland, USA; Democratic Vice Presidential candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp, US Ambassador to France (1968-1970).
- 1918 - Birth of Howard Shanet in Brooklyn, New York, USA; conductor (Night of the Tropics).
- 1928 - Birth of Anne Sexton in Newton, Massachusetts, USA; poet (Live or Die).
- 1930 - Birth of Charlie Jones in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA; sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes).
- 1932 - Birth of Marian Christy in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA; author (Invasions of Privacy).
- 1934 - Birth of Carl Sagan in New York City, USA; astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain).
- 1936 - Birth of Mary Travers in Louisville, Kentucky, USA; folk singer (Peter Paul and Mary).
- 1942 - Birth of Tom Weiskopf in Ohio, USA; PGA golfer (British Open 1973).
- 1945 - Birth of Roger Lee Jones in West Virginia, USA; child molester (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1951 - Birth of Lou Ferrigno in Brooklyn, New York, USA; body builder/actor (The Incredible Hulk).
- 1964 - Birth of John Joseph Thomas in Arcadia, California, USA; actor (Young Daniel Boone).
Deaths on November 9
- 1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet, dies in New York at age 39.
- 1967 - Death of American actor Charles Bickford (Playhouse 90, Ford TV Theater, The Virginian, Wagon Train, The Dick Powell Show) of a blood infection at age 75.
- 1970 - William L Dawson, American politician (Representative-Democrat-Illinois) dies at age 84.
- 1988 - Death of Richard S. Yeo ("R.S. Yeoman"); Western Publishing company marketing executive, popularized coin boards, author of Handbook of United States Coins with Premium List, nicknamed the Blue Book, and A Guide Book of United States Coins, nicknamed the Red Book.
- 1988 - John Mitchell, former American Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal, dies of heart attack in Washington (born 1913).
- 2003 - Death of Art Carney at age 85; actor (Ed Norton - The Honeymooners).
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