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:  
 
03/09/1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America) 
03/09/1564 David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discover variable star)

03/09/1735 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer 
03/09/1737 Josef Myslivecek, composer 
03/09/1753 Jean-Baptiste Kl‚ber, French general/architect (Mainz, Colors) 
03/09/1758 Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology) 
03/09/1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist 
03/09/1810 Jean-Georges Kastner, composer 
03/09/1812 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer 
03/09/1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev 
03/09/1824 Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U 
03/09/1839 Felix Huston Robertson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 192

03/09/1839 Modest P Moessorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov) [OS] 
03/09/1848 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer 
03/09/1850 Alexandre Luigini, composer 
03/09/1874 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer 
03/09/1875 Martin Fallas Shaw, composer 
03/09/1877 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist 
03/09/1881 Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician 
03/09/1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs 
03/09/1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN) 
03/09/1892 David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox) 
03/09/1892 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Underworld) 
03/09/1892 M ty  R kosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53) 
03/09/1892 Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist/poet (The Land) 
03/09/1893 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian wall-painter/decorator 
03/09/1893 Hans Munch, composer 
03/09/1902 Edward Durell Stone, US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi) 
03/09/1902 Will Greer, Frankfort Ind, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons) 
03/09/1905 F‚lix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes) 
03/09/1905 Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear) 
03/09/1905 Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy) 
03/09/1905 Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase) 
03/09/1907 Henry Leland Clarke, composer 
03/09/1908 Luiz Cosme, composer 
03/09/1910 Ed[uard] Hoornik, writer/poet (Outlive) 
03/09/1910 Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal

03/09/1911 Ramon Campbell Batista, composer 
03/09/1913 Ger[ar]da Brautigam, journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA) 
03/09/1914 Fred Clark, Lincoln Calif, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame) 
03/09/1917 Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955-  ) 
03/09/1918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I, the Jury) 
03/09/1920 Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show) 
03/09/1922 Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948) 
03/09/1923 Andr‚ Courr‚ges, France, fashion designer (introed the miniskirt) 
03/09/1923 James Buckley, (Sen-R-NY) 
03/09/1924 Konstantin Iliev, composer 
03/09/1926 Celso Garrido Lecca, composer 
03/09/1926 Gerrit A Kooy, sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa) 
03/09/1926 Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, actress (Moses The Lawgiver) 
03/09/1927 Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer 
03/09/1927 Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958) 
03/09/1927 John Beckwith, composer 
03/09/1929 Hugh D Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985-  ) 
03/09/1930 Harrie J B Arts, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA) 
03/09/1930 Thomas Schippers, Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)

03/09/1932 Heere Heeresma, writer (Han the White goes in development aid) 
03/09/1933 Lloyd Price, US, singer (Just Because) 
03/09/1933 William Francis McBeth, composer 
03/09/1934 Joyce Van Patten, Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show) 
03/09/1934 Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1

03/09/1935 Keely Smith, Norfolk Va, singer (Mrs Louie Prima) 
03/09/1935 Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun 
03/09/1936 Glenda Jackson, England, actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class) 
03/09/1936 Marty Ingels, Bkln NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster) 
03/09/1936 Mickey Gilley, Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy) 
03/09/1938 Charles Siebert, Kenosha Wisc, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper Joh

03/09/1940 Raul Julia, PR, actor (Eyes of Laura Mars, Kiss of the Spider Woman)

03/09/1941 Trish Van Devere, actress (Movie, Movie, Changeling, Hearse) 
03/09/1942 John Cale, Welsh/US bassist/altviolist/singer (Velvet Underground) 
03/09/1942 Mark Lindsay, Eugene Oregon, singer (Paul Revere & the Raiders) 
03/09/1943 Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75) 
03/09/1944 Trevor Burton, rocker (Move) 
03/09/1945 Laura Lee, [Rundless], singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights) 
03/09/1945 Ray Royer, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale) 
03/09/1945 Robin Trower, London, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale) 
03/09/1946 German Semyonovich Arzamazov, Russia, cosmonaut 
03/09/1948 Jamie Lyn Bauer, Phoenix Az, actr (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girl

03/09/1948 Jeffrey Osborne, singer (On the Wings of Love) 
03/09/1949 Kalevi Aho, composer 
03/09/1950 Danny Sullivan, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins) 
03/09/1952 Iuliana Semenova, USSR, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976) 
03/09/1952 William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana Calif, actor (How the West Was Won) 
03/09/1954 Keven Wade, Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls) 
03/09/1955 Ornella Muti, Rome Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife

03/09/1955 Teo Fabi, formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983) 
03/09/1957 Faith Daniels, news anchor (CBS-TV) 
03/09/1957 Jon Engen, Oslo Norway, US biathelete (Olympics-1994) 
03/09/1958 Martin Fry, rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart) 
03/09/1959 Barbie, doll 
03/09/1962 Brian Green, Columbus Indiana, actor (Sam Fowler-Another World) 
03/09/1963 Kent Ferguson, Cedar Rapids Iowa, US diver (Olympic-92) 
03/09/1965 Brian Bosworth, quarterback (Seattle) 
03/09/1966 Juliette Binoche, Paris France, actress (Unbearable Lightness) 
03/09/1967 Curt Schreiner, Albany NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994) 
03/09/1967 Eric Flaim, Pembroke Mass, short track skater (Olympics-1994) 
03/09/1970 Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, US soldier (Iraqi POW) 
03/09/1971 Emmanuel Lewis, Bkln NY, actor (Webster) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/09/1620 Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer K”nigreich), dies at 59 
03/09/1661 Jules 'Cardinal' Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies 
03/09/1688 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89 
03/09/1706 Johann Pachelbel, composer, dies at 52 
03/09/1747 Jacob Campo Weyerman, S Neth adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69 
03/09/1800 Dominique Della-Maria, composer, dies at 31 
03/09/1819 Janos Fusz, composer, dies at 41 
03/09/1827 Franz Xaver Gerl, composer, dies at 62 
03/09/1870 Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65 
03/09/1877 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58

03/09/1895 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59 
03/09/1918 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53 
03/09/1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies at 78 in Chicago 
03/09/1938 Sydney Baynes, composer, dies at 59 
03/09/1941 Carlos Pedrell, composer, dies at 62 
03/09/1943 Oskar Hˆks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz 
03/09/1955 Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies 
03/09/1962 Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer dies at 59 
03/09/1964 Johanna W 'Mina' Bakker, actress (Boefje), dies at 87 
03/09/1964 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general strategist, dies at 93 
03/09/1965 Anthon van der Horst, composer, dies at 66 
03/09/1969 Riad, chief of staff of Egyptian army, dies 
03/09/1969 Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50 
03/09/1971 Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer, dies at 36 
03/09/1974 Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58 
03/09/1975 Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82 
03/09/1981 Max Delbrck, German/US biologist (Nobel 1969), dies 
03/09/1982 Alan Badel, actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58 
03/09/1982 Rex Marshall, TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), die

03/09/1982 Richard A Butler, England, min of Finance, dies at 79 
03/09/1983 Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65 
03/09/1986 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78 
03/09/1988 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83 
03/09/1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, dies 
03/09/1992 James Brooks, US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia Airport NY), dies

03/09/1992 Menachem W Begin, premier Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies 
03/09/1993 Ad de Gessel, actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies 
03/09/1993 Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79 
03/09/1993 C Northcote Parkinson, British wit (Parkinson's Law), dies at 83 
03/09/1994 Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies at 76 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/09/1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria 
03/09/1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation, 
03/09/1522 -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 
03/09/1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis 
03/09/1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena 
03/09/1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston 
03/09/1791 George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether 
03/09/1796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 
03/09/1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy 
03/09/1820 -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die 
03/09/1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House 
03/09/1822 Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth 
03/09/1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) 
03/09/1842 The opera 'Nabucco' is produced (Milan) 
03/09/1844 The opera 'Hernani' is produced (Venice) 
03/09/1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox 
03/09/1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington 
03/09/1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000 
03/09/1862 'Monitor' (Union) & 'Merrimack' (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads 
03/09/1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 
03/09/1868 The opera 'Hamlet' is produced (Paris) 
03/09/1873 Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded 
03/09/1882 False teeth patented 
03/09/1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #223 Rosa 
03/09/1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US 
03/09/1895 Montreal AAA beat Queens Univ (Kingston Ont) for the Stanley Cup 
03/09/1897 Premier of Gustav Mahlers 3rd Symphony (Berlin) 
03/09/1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler 
03/09/1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a go

03/09/1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana 
03/09/1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Me 
03/09/1914 US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands 'Cubanisering of Mexico' 
03/09/1915 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #799 Gudula 
03/09/1916 General Fransisco 'Poncho' Villa invades US (17 killed) 
03/09/1916 Germany declares war against Portugal 
03/09/1918 Russian Bolshevick Party becomes the Communist Party 
03/09/1918 Wageningen School opens 
03/09/1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions 
03/09/1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended 
03/09/1924 South slavia votes with Italy to annex Fiume (Rijeka) 
03/09/1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle 
03/09/1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland 
03/09/1932 Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria 
03/09/1933 New Deal legislation begins 
03/09/1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps 
03/09/1943 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1562 Gondolatsch & #1732 Heike 
03/09/1945 Japanese proclaim the 'independence' of Indo-China 
03/09/1945 US bombing kills at least 120,000 in Tokyo 
03/09/1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang 
03/09/1948 Temporary Indonesian government installed in Batavia 
03/09/1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC 
03/09/1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title 
03/09/1953 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1915 Quetzalcoatl 
03/09/1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow 
03/09/1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now) 
03/09/1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting 
03/09/1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus exiled to Seychelles 
03/09/1956 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1990 Pilcher 
03/09/1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England 
03/09/1957 Earthquake/flood strikes Aleoeten 
03/09/1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72 
03/09/1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit 
03/09/1961 Supremes release 'I Want A Guy' & 'Never Again' 
03/09/1962 Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians 
03/09/1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight 
03/09/1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board 
03/09/1967 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #1790 Volkov 
03/09/1968 Grammy Awards-Sgt Pepper's wins 4 awards 
03/09/1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 
03/09/1977 Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th 
03/09/1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) 
03/09/1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured 
03/09/1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News 
03/09/1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3057 Malaren, #3106 Morabito & #3667 
03/09/1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana 
03/09/1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections 
03/09/1984 John Lennon releases 'Borrowed Time' 
03/09/1984 Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record

03/09/1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed 
03/09/1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 
03/09/1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp 
03/09/1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy 
03/09/1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) 
03/09/1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary 
03/09/1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 
03/09/1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as US surgeon general 
03/09/1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games 
03/09/1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orb

03/09/1994 Asteroid #2060 Chiron eclipses m11.9 star 
  
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