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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Births:  
 
05/09/1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia) 
05/09/1596 Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter 
05/09/1738 John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet 
05/09/1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Il Barbiere the Siviglia) 
05/09/1783 Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader 
05/09/1785 James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms) 
05/09/1793 John C de Young, historian/archivist 
05/09/1796 August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia) 
05/09/1800 John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry 
05/09/1801 Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver 
05/09/1810 Louis Gallait, historical painter 
05/09/1810 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I 
05/09/1814 Adolf Henselt, composer 
05/09/1824 William Edmonson 'Grumble' Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army) 
05/09/1829 Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer 
05/09/1833 Boleslaw Dembinski, composer 
05/09/1843 Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer 
05/09/1846 Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer 
05/09/1855 Julius Rontgen, composer 
05/09/1860 James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan

05/09/1865 August de Boeck, composer 
05/09/1873 Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)

05/09/1873 Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater) 
05/09/1882 Henry J Kaiser, builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam) 
05/09/1892 Eric Westberg, composer 
05/09/1892 Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary) 
05/09/1895 Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon) 
05/09/1895 Richard Barthelmess, US, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose) 
05/09/1906 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats) 
05/09/1907 Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame) 
05/09/1910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert 
05/09/1911 Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show) 
05/09/1912 Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor (From Russia With Love) 
05/09/1913 John Hayes, Admiral 
05/09/1913 Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff) 
05/09/1914 Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor 
05/09/1914 Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader 
05/09/1914 Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Weddin

05/09/1914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices) 
05/09/1915 Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral 
05/09/1916 Bernard Rose, composer 
05/09/1916 Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby 
05/09/1916 Douglas Guest, organist 
05/09/1917 John Arnatt, actor (Circumstantial Evidence) 
05/09/1918 Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes) 
05/09/1918 Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture (1961-69

05/09/1919 Arthur English, comedian/actor (Malachi's Cove) 
05/09/1920 Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By) 
05/09/1922 Sheila Burrell, actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark) 
05/09/1924 Boelat S Okoedzjava, Russian author (Student!) 
05/09/1924 Connie Russell, NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large) 
05/09/1924 Gerard Wernars, graphic form engraver (bibliotheekwerkpostz's 1991) 
05/09/1924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour) 
05/09/1925 Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance 
05/09/1926 Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England) 
05/09/1926 Bernard Rose, organist 
05/09/1926 Francis Kennedy, British diplomat 
05/09/1926 Joshua Hassan, chief minister (Gibralter) 
05/09/1926 Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal) 
05/09/1927 John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal (Northern Ireland) 
05/09/1927 Manfred Own, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967) 
05/09/1927 Ray Katt, baseball player 
05/09/1928 Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa Ontario, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948)

05/09/1928 Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer 
05/09/1928 Richard A 'Pancho' Gonzalez, LA Calif, tennis star (US 1948-49) 
05/09/1929 Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal 
05/09/1930 Joan Sims, actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo) 
05/09/1931 Vance DeVoe Brand, Longmont Co, astro (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35) 
05/09/1932 David Plastow, CEO (Medical Research Council) 
05/09/1932 Gavin Lyall, author (Conduct of Major Maxim) 
05/09/1932 Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V) 
05/09/1932 J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-  ) 
05/09/1933 Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood 
05/09/1934 Alan Bennett, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball) 
05/09/1934 John Robertson, deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd) 
05/09/1934 Roy Massey, Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral) 
05/09/1936 Albert Finney, UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano) 
05/09/1936 Floyd Robinson, baseball player 
05/09/1936 Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love) 
05/09/1936 Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ (1961-62) 
05/09/1936 Terry Drinkwater, TV newsman (CBS) 
05/09/1937 Dave Prather, singer (Sam & Dave) 
05/09/1937 David Talker, US singer (Sam & Dave-Hold on I'm Coming) 
05/09/1937 Sonny Curtis, guitarist (Crickets) 
05/09/1938 Geoffrey Holland, civil servant 
05/09/1938 Nokie Edwards, rocker (Ventures) 
05/09/1939 Bruce Mather, composer 
05/09/1939 Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph) 
05/09/1939 Ralph Harold Boston, Laurel MS, long jumper (Olympic-gold-60) 
05/09/1940 Dick Morrissey, saxophonist 
05/09/1940 James L Brooks, producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi) 
05/09/1941 Dorothy Hyman, England, sprinter (Oly-silver-60) 
05/09/1941 Jan Dibbets, speed artist (Dutch Mountains) 
05/09/1942 John D Ashcroft, (Gov-MO) 
05/09/1942 Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel) 
05/09/1942 William Olner, MP 
05/09/1943 Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother's Son) 
05/09/1944 Don Dannemann, rocker (Cyrkle) 
05/09/1944 Richard Furay, rocker (Buffalo Springfield, Poco) 
05/09/1945 Steve Katz, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die, Blues Project) 
05/09/1946 Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)

05/09/1947 Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone) 
05/09/1949 Billy Joel, Bronx, singer (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge) 
05/09/1949 Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10) 
05/09/1950 James A Butts, LA Calif, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1976) 
05/09/1950 Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host 
05/09/1951 Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years) 
05/09/1952 Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner) 
05/09/1953 Ron Jackson, baseball player 
05/09/1953 Scott McInnis, (Rep-R-Colorado) 
05/09/1955 Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science) 
05/09/1957 Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph 
05/09/1957 John Stuper, baseball player 
05/09/1958 Esko Rechardt, Finland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1980) 
05/09/1960 Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers) 
05/09/1960 Tony Gwynn, baseball player 
05/09/1962 David Gahan, English rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me) 
05/09/1962 Paul Heaton, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There) 
05/09/1964 Miloslav Mecir, Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988) 
05/09/1965 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/09/1280 Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 
05/09/1443 Niccol¢ d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies 
05/09/1590 Karel 'Cardinal' van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 
05/09/1657 William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies 
05/09/1688 Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 67 
05/09/1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82 
05/09/1760 Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, leader of Moravian Church, di

05/09/1785 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44 
05/09/1791 Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 
05/09/1799 Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 
05/09/1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45

05/09/1822 Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 63 
05/09/1850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies 
05/09/1853 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73 
05/09/1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident 
05/09/1880 Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54 
05/09/1884 Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69 
05/09/1903 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies 
05/09/1905 Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78 
05/09/1926 Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies 
05/09/1928 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81 
05/09/1931 Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, dies 
05/09/1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 
05/09/1944 Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86 
05/09/1949 Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies 
05/09/1952 Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies at 45 in NYC 
05/09/1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies 
05/09/1958 Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47 
05/09/1965 Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies 
05/09/1966 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56 
05/09/1966 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies 
05/09/1967 Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies

05/09/1967 Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35 
05/09/1968 Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74

05/09/1968 Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81 
05/09/1970 Percy Brier, composer, dies at 85 
05/09/1970 Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president CIO, dies 
05/09/1974 Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69 
05/09/1976 Raymond Chevreuille, composer, dies at 74 
05/09/1976 Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59 
05/09/1977 James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 5

05/09/1977 Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 72 
05/09/1979 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95 
05/09/1979 Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73 
05/09/1981 Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 
05/09/1982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet/writer (Ka‹n sloeg Abel), dies 
05/09/1986 Dirk de Vroome, Limburg activist, dies at about 59 
05/09/1986 Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62 
05/09/1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 
05/09/1987 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 
05/09/1989 Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33 
05/09/1989 Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82 
05/09/1990 Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 
05/09/1990 Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84 
05/09/1991 James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies 
05/09/1991 Ronnie Brody, British actor, dies 
05/09/1991 Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies 
05/09/1992 Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident 
05/09/1993 Lady Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 
05/09/1993 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/09/1002 After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11 
05/09/1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated 
05/09/1336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux 
05/09/1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England 
05/09/1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings 
05/09/1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World 
05/09/1671 Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels 
05/09/1689 English King Willem III declares war on France 
05/09/1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake 'Join or die' 
05/09/1785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles 
05/09/1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius 
05/09/1837 'Sherrod' burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies 
05/09/1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande 
05/09/1862 Battle of Farmington, MS 
05/09/1862 Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS 
05/09/1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI 
05/09/1864 -20] Skermish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia 
05/09/1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling

05/09/1864 Battle of Dalton, GA 
05/09/1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark 
05/09/1874 Victoria Embankment, in London opens 
05/09/1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co organized 
05/09/1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models) 
05/09/1901 Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-

05/09/1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #565 Marbachia 
05/09/1905 P Gotz discovers asteroid #564 Dudu 
05/09/1908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname 
05/09/1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland 
05/09/1913 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote 
05/09/1914 Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day 
05/09/1915 German & French fight Battle of Artois 
05/09/1916 British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey 
05/09/1917 R Schorr discovers asteroid #869 Mellena 
05/09/1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid 
05/09/1926 Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole 
05/09/1927 Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra 
05/09/1929 NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates 
05/09/1929 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions 
05/09/1930 Gallant Fox wins 55th Preakness Stakes en route to triple crown 
05/09/1932 Burgoo King wins Preakness Stakes 
05/09/1932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity 
05/09/1932 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC 
05/09/1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike 
05/09/1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire 
05/09/1936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) 
05/09/1937 Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6) 
05/09/1941 English Army breaks German spy codes 
05/09/1942 Alsab wins Preakness Stakes 
05/09/1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens 
05/09/1944 1st eye bank opens (NYC) 
05/09/1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana 
05/09/1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested 
05/09/1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol 
05/09/1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day) 
05/09/1945 Jersey liberated from nazis 
05/09/1945 Victory celebration at Red Square 
05/09/1946 1st hour long entertainment TV show, 'NBC's Hour Glass' premieres 
05/09/1946 1st variety show on TV 'NBC's Hour Glass,' premieres 
05/09/1946 King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto 
05/09/1949 Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London 
05/09/1949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco 
05/09/1950 French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 
05/09/1950 Robert Schuman announces Schuman Plan for European integration 
05/09/1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River 
05/09/1955 German Federal Republic joins NATO 
05/09/1958 Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship 
05/09/1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth 
05/09/1960 US send U-2 over USSR 
05/09/1961 Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins 
05/09/1961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a 'vast wasteland' 
05/09/1962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone 
05/09/1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time 
05/09/1964 Khrushchev visits Egypt 
05/09/1964 Peter & Gordon release 'World Without Love' 
05/09/1965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert 
05/09/1965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon. (fails) 
05/09/1966 3rd Chinese atom bomb explodes 
05/09/1967 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship 
05/09/1967 Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam 
05/09/1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War 
05/09/1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes 
05/09/1971 Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history 
05/09/1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1903 Adzhimushkaj & #1904 Massevitch

05/09/1973 For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game 
05/09/1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment

05/09/1975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) 
05/09/1975 Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead 
05/09/1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed 
05/09/1977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon 
05/09/1977 Patty Hearst let out of jail 
05/09/1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found 
05/09/1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage 
05/09/1978 PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth 
05/09/1979 US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons 
05/09/1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge 
05/09/1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian 
05/09/1983 S Sei discovers asteroid #2909 Hoshi-no-ie 
05/09/1984 Alexander Calder's 'Big Crinkly' sells for $852,000 
05/09/1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw 
05/09/1987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry 
05/09/1987 Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games 
05/09/1988 Australia's new parliment house is opened by Queen Elizabeth 
05/09/1988 Belgium: 8th govt of Martens forms 
05/09/1989 Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press 
05/09/1989 NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop 
05/09/1990 NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur 
05/09/1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 
05/09/1991 Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer 
05/09/1992 America Cup finals begin in San Diego 
05/09/1992 Final episode of 'Golden Girls' airs on NBC-TV 
05/09/1992 Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned Miss Universe 
05/09/1993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300 
05/09/1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY 
  
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