This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
08/09/1593 Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)

08/09/1611 Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Holly 
08/09/1631 John Dryden, English opoet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas) 
08/09/1677 Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Neth's adventurer/painter/writer 
08/09/1686 Benedetto Marcello, Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare) 
08/09/1690 Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, composer 
08/09/1696 Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general 
08/09/1718 Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer 
08/09/1758 Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer 
08/09/1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law) 
08/09/1781 Michael Umlauf, composer 
08/09/1808 William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
08/09/1819 William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920) 
08/09/1823 Daniel Marsh Frost, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 
08/09/1824 Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
08/09/1825 Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93) 
08/09/1834 Elias Alvares Lobo, composer 
08/09/1845 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator 
08/09/1861 Wilhelm Berger, composer 
08/09/1866 Mattheco Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole 
08/09/1875 Albert William KetŠlbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker) 
08/09/1875 Reynaldo Hahn, composer 
08/09/1883 George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961) 
08/09/1887 Abraham Schierbeek, biologist (Swammerdam) 
08/09/1888 Hans Oster, general/German spy/'July 20th plotter' 
08/09/1890 Cesar Cortinas, composer 
08/09/1890 Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher 
08/09/1890 Sandor Jemnitz, composer 
08/09/1891 Max Branch, music/radio commentator 
08/09/1896 Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist 
08/09/1896 Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20) 
08/09/1897 Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography 
08/09/1898 David de Jong, writer (Mutiny on the canal) 
08/09/1899 Armand Salacrou, French poet 
08/09/1901 Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Mass, actor (Vern-My Little Margie) 
08/09/1902 Zino Francescatti, Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939) 
08/09/1905 Leo Genn, actor (Affair in Monte Carlo) 
08/09/1909 John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Centur

08/09/1910 Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Rechter Tie) 
08/09/1911 Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion) 
08/09/1911 William A Fowler, US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983) 
08/09/1913 Harry Mills, singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Moon) 
08/09/1913 Herman Talmadge, (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee) 
08/09/1914 Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor 
08/09/1914 Joseph M 'Joop' Lcker, journalist/editor in chief the Volkskrant 
08/09/1915 Haim Alexander, composer 
08/09/1918 Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen) 
08/09/1919 Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier (PVDA, 1973-77) 
08/09/1919 Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers) 
08/09/1921 J James Exon, (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979-  ) 
08/09/1922 Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill) 
08/09/1923 Gerrit Kouwenaar, literary 
08/09/1925 Robert Heppener, composer (Hymns & Conversations, Movie Music) 
08/09/1926 Michiel de Ruyter, [Mister Jazz], jazz historian 
08/09/1927 Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT) 
08/09/1927 Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday) 
08/09/1928 Bob Cousy, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 1957 MVP) 
08/09/1930 Betty Boop, animation 
08/09/1935 George S Leotsakos, composer 
08/09/1938 Dick Anthony Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor) 
08/09/1938 Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam) 
08/09/1939 Billy Henderson, rocker (Spinners-That's what girls are made for) 
08/09/1939 Claude Osteen, baseball pitcher (Cin Reds) 
08/09/1939 Max Neuhaus, composer 
08/09/1940 Beverlee McKinsey, Okla, actress (Another World, Guiding Light) 
08/09/1942 David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End) 
08/09/1944 Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66) 
08/09/1944 Sam Elliot, Calif, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty) 
08/09/1944 Viv Prince, rocker (Pretty Things) 
08/09/1945 Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show) 
08/09/1946 Maarnus Gerritsen, rocker (Golden Earring) 
08/09/1946 Rinus Gerritsen, bassist/rocker (Golden Earring) 
08/09/1947 Barbara Mason, US singer (Yes, I'm ready) 
08/09/1950 Roelof S 'Roel' Bakker, actor/director (Liefdesdrank) 
08/09/1955 Doug Williams, Louisiana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Bucaneers, Wash Redskins

08/09/1957 Melanie Griffith, NYC, actress (Something Wild, Working Girls) 
08/09/1958 Amanda Bearse, actress (Marcy Rhodes-Married With Children) 
08/09/1958 Greg Chaisson, heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark) 
08/09/1959 Diane Williams, Hahn AFB Ger, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel

08/09/1959 Kurtis Blow, NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks) 
08/09/1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author 
08/09/1962 Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker 
08/09/1963 Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children) 
08/09/1963 Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time) 
08/09/1965 John Smith, Okla City, US Olympic wrestler (Goodwill-gold-1988, 90) 
08/09/1965 Kyle Kyle, Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)

08/09/1966 Pat Petersen, LA Calif, actor (Michael-Knots Landing) 
08/09/1971 Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s) 
08/09/1972 Elizabeth Vassey, Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children)

 
 
Deaths:  
 
08/09/ 117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117) 
08/09/ 378 Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50 
08/09/ 803 Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies 
08/09/1048 Damasius II, [Poppo], Pope (1047-48), dies 
08/09/1420 Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies 
08/09/1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies 
08/09/1613 Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36 
08/09/1634 Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies 
08/09/1652 John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37 
08/09/1668 Fran‡ois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64 
08/09/1672 Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70 
08/09/1710 Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 77 
08/09/1727 Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52 
08/09/1738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies 
08/09/1763 John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47 
08/09/1835 Claus Nielsen Schali, composer, dies at 78 
08/09/1854 Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57 
08/09/1888 Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82 
08/09/1892 Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies 
08/09/1896 Otto Lilenthal, killed during a glider test 
08/09/1904 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geography (Lebensraum), dies at 59 
08/09/1915 Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle 
08/09/1919 Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher/zoologist (Social Darwinism), dies

08/09/1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, composer, dies at 62 
08/09/1924 Jacob P Fish, founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66 
08/09/1928 Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71 
08/09/1942 Edith Stein, German philospher, dies 
08/09/1955 Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57 
08/09/1958 Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74 
08/09/1959 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer, dies at 55 
08/09/1961 Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff, dies 
08/09/1966 Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75 
08/09/1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies 
08/09/1969 Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered 
08/09/1969 George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies at 72 
08/09/1969 Robert Lehman, US multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), di

08/09/1969 Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang 
08/09/1969 Voyteck Freykowski, US director, murdered 
08/09/1972 Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53 
08/09/1972 Richard Elsasser, composer, dies at 45 
08/09/1973 Dean Corll, shot; he raped & killed 26 boys 
08/09/1975 Dimitri D Sjostakovitsj, Russian composer (Sun over motherland), die

08/09/1975 Julian 'Cannonball' Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46 
08/09/1976 Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72 
08/09/1978 James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74 
08/09/1979 Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64 
08/09/1979 Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies 
08/09/1982 Aleksandr A Aleksejev, Russian director, dies 
08/09/1986 Joseph 'Poeske' Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77 
08/09/1987 Kees the Galan, economist, dies at 55 
08/09/1988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85 
08/09/1991 Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies 
08/09/1992 Jan van Baal, antropologist/gov Dutch New-Guinea, dies 
08/09/1992 Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies 
08/09/1993 Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed at 54 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
08/09/ 378 Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army 
08/09/ 480 -BC- Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae 
08/09/1378 Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil) 
08/09/1559 Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht 
08/09/1596 Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond 
08/09/1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx 
08/09/1673 Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures NY 
08/09/1673 Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674 
08/09/1726 Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover 
08/09/1757 English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops 
08/09/1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits 
08/09/1786 1st ascent of Mt Blanc 
08/09/1790 Columbia becomes 1st US flagged ship to voyage around world 
08/09/1803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii 
08/09/1829 'Stourbridge Lion' locomotive goes into service 
08/09/1831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY) 
08/09/1832 King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria 
08/09/1841 Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die 
08/09/1842 US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty 
08/09/1848 Austria & Sardinia sign ceasefire 
08/09/1849 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia 
08/09/1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes 'Walden' 
08/09/1855 Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising 
08/09/1859 Elevator patented 
08/09/1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain VA (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)

08/09/1864 Battle of Ft Morgan AL 
08/09/1876 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #165 Loreley 
08/09/1890 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantation

08/09/1893 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY 
08/09/1901 34-35øN/98-99øW open for US colonization 
08/09/1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria 
08/09/1914 German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser 
08/09/1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis 
08/09/1916 H Thiele discovers asteroid #3229 
08/09/1923 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #999 Zachia 
08/09/1923 NY State Golf Assoc formed 
08/09/1925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out 
08/09/1930 113øF (45øC) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record) 
08/09/1930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes 
08/09/1936 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1396 Outeniqua & #1397 Umtata 
08/09/1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics 
08/09/1941 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR 
08/09/1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland 
08/09/1942 British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K Gandhi 
08/09/1942 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad 
08/09/1942 Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island 
08/09/1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper 'Trouw,' executed at Camp Vught 
08/09/1944 US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans 
08/09/1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb 'Fat Man' on Japan destroys part of Nagasak

08/09/1946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night 
08/09/1950 Lusty Song wins Hambletonian 
08/09/1951 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation 
08/09/1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium 
08/09/1953 Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired 
08/09/1953 S Arend discovers asteroid #1652 Herge 
08/09/1956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama 
08/09/1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws 
08/09/1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida 
08/09/1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court 
08/09/1963 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres 
08/09/1964 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands 
08/09/1965 Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die 
08/09/1965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day) 
08/09/1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army 
08/09/1967 KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting 
08/09/1968 Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague 
08/09/1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders 
08/09/1970 Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2949 Kaverznev 
08/09/1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes 
08/09/1971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame 
08/09/1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle 
08/09/1973 Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings 
08/09/1973 USSR launches Mars 7 
08/09/1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres 
08/09/1975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7 
08/09/1976 Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0 
08/09/1976 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth 
08/09/1977 NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs 
08/09/1978 Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7 
08/09/1980 Belgium constitution revised 
08/09/1981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) 
08/09/1981 Larry Nelson wins PGA golf tournament 
08/09/1981 NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium) 
08/09/1984 Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal 
08/09/1984 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad 
08/09/1987 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo) 
08/09/1987 Larry Nelson wins PGA golf tournament 
08/09/1988 Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field

08/09/1988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions

08/09/1988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888 
08/09/1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabi

08/09/1992 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain 
08/09/1993 King Albert II of Belgium, crowned 
  
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