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:  
 
06/09/1510 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem 
06/09/1573 Henricus Hondius, etcher/publisher 
06/09/1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, composer 
06/09/1597 Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter 
06/09/1640 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire 
06/09/1672 Peter I Aleksejevitsj, the Great, Russian tsar/Emperor (Zaandam) 
06/09/1781 George Stephenson, Newcastle England, (principal RR locomotive) 
06/09/1791 John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home) 
06/09/1792 Fr‚d‚ric LG, Earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary 
06/09/1810 Otto Nicolai, composer 
06/09/1812 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens) 
06/09/1812 Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune) 
06/09/1828 Carlo Marsili, composer 
06/09/1829 Gaetano Braga, composer 
06/09/1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 
06/09/1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905) 
06/09/1849 Joseph Vezina, composer 
06/09/1854 Gerardus J P J Bolland, philospher (Bolland Society) 
06/09/1865 Alberic Magnard, composer 
06/09/1865 Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige) 
06/09/1879 Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player 
06/09/1884 Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, journalist/conductor 
06/09/1886 Kusaku Yamada, composer 
06/09/1888 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer 
06/09/1888 Hugo Kauder, composer 
06/09/1890 Leslie Banks, English actor/director (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours) 
06/09/1893 Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate

06/09/1893 Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs

06/09/1898 Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt) 
06/09/1900 Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blende

06/09/1900 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot 
06/09/1905 Walter Kraft, composer 
06/09/1906 Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja) 
06/09/1908 Robert Cummings, Joplin Mo, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder)

06/09/1910 Vbilmos Demian, composer 
06/09/1912 Ingolf Dahl, Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso) 
06/09/1913 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Army (Heils) 
06/09/1914 Barbara Mullen, actress (Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners) 
06/09/1914 Hermann Haller, composer 
06/09/1915 Les Paul, Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar) 
06/09/1916 Robert S McNamara, US Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head of World Bank 
06/09/1918 Rob de Vries, actor/director 
06/09/1919 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian skater 
06/09/1921 Agnes Keleti, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56) 
06/09/1922 George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany) 
06/09/1923 Gerald G”tting, German DR president (CDU) 
06/09/1924 Christine Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964) 
06/09/1924 Tony Britton, Birmingham Eng, actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup)

06/09/1925 [John] Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], US, sf author (Retief's War)

06/09/1926 Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress) 
06/09/1927 Franco Donatoni, composer 
06/09/1927 Norman Sisisky, (Rep-D-VA, 1983-  ) 
06/09/1929 Johnny Ace, [John M Alexander Jr], US R&B singer (My Song) 
06/09/1929 Keith A St H Gardner, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1960) 
06/09/1929 Robert E Badham, (Rep-R-CA, 1977-  ) 
06/09/1930 Jackie Mason, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup) 
06/09/1930 Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria) 
06/09/1930 Marvin Kalb, NYC, educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC) 
06/09/1933 Dick Orkin, Williamsport Pa, actor (Tim Conway Show) 
06/09/1933 Don Young, (Rep-R-AK, 1973-  ) 
06/09/1934 Donald Duck, famous fowl 
06/09/1934 Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960) 
06/09/1934 Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops) 
06/09/1934 Joe Santos, Bkln NY, actor (Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus) 
06/09/1934 Pal Karolyi, composer 
06/09/1938 Charles Wuorinen, NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980) 
06/09/1940 Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster 
06/09/1941 John Lord, England, keyboardist (Deep Purple-Hush) 
06/09/1943 Joe [William] Haldeman, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apar

06/09/1944 Brigid Bazlen, Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady) 
06/09/1945 Faina Myelink, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1972) 
06/09/1947 Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze) 
06/09/1948 Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Calif, cellist (Tchaikovsky Gold 1978) 
06/09/1951 Benny Neyman, singer (I Know Not How) 
06/09/1951 Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart) 
06/09/1951 Dave Parker, baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978) 
06/09/1954 Pete Byrne, rocker (Naked Eyes) 
06/09/1958 Donald Michael Santini, Mass, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 
06/09/1961 Michael J Fox, Edm, actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wol

06/09/1962 Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian) 
06/09/1963 Johnny Depp, Queensboro Ky, actor (21 Jump Street) 
06/09/1969 Mitch McLee, [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/09/  68 Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31 
06/09/1361 Philippe de Vitry, composer, dies at 69 
06/09/1382 Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies 
06/09/1572 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44 
06/09/1597 Jos‚ de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies 
06/09/1717 Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic, dies at 69 
06/09/1717 Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64 
06/09/1820 Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68 
06/09/1825 M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla, dies at 44

06/09/1832 Manuel Garcia, composer, dies at 57 
06/09/1839 Gerrit J P˜man, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89 
06/09/1847 Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orph‚e), dies 
06/09/1863 Benjamin Franklin 'Grimes' Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30 
06/09/1870 Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies 
06/09/1870 Erik Drake, composer, dies at 82 
06/09/1892 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59 
06/09/1897 Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40' lens 
06/09/1907 Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered 
06/09/1908 Jos‚ FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46 
06/09/1922 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies 
06/09/1931 Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79 
06/09/1932 Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76 
06/09/1939 Owen Moore, actor (High Voltage, She Done Him Wrong), dies at 52 
06/09/1957 Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56 
06/09/1958 Robert Donat, actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 5

06/09/1960 Ren‚ Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies 
06/09/1962 Henry Kendall, actor (Shadow, Romance & Riches), dies at 65 
06/09/1964 W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Engl Min of Info, dies at 85 
06/09/1967 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64 
06/09/1975 David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48 
06/09/1976 James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88 
06/09/1976 Paul T B Rodenko, poet/writer (No Loyality with 1 heks), dies 
06/09/1976 Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93 
06/09/1977 Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant), poet, dies at 51 
06/09/1980 Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73 
06/09/1981 Allen Ludden, game show host (Password), dies at 63 
06/09/1981 Russell Hayden, actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice), dies 
06/09/1982 Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, dies at 60 
06/09/1982 Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at 74 
06/09/1987 Grandon Rhodes, actor (Gentleman From Nowhere), dies 
06/09/1987 Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters), dies 
06/09/1989 Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies 
06/09/1991 Bob Irwin, entertainer, dies 
06/09/1991 Claudio Arrau, Chilian/US pianist/composer, dies at 88 
06/09/1991 Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77 
06/09/1992 Cathy Bennett, jury selection expert, dies of breast cancer at 41 
06/09/1992 Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack 
06/09/1993 Alexis Smith, dancer/actress (Follies), dies at 72 of Cancer 
06/09/1993 Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On), dies at 53

06/09/1994 Jan Tinbergen, economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/09/ 641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria 
06/09/ 922 French republic chooses Robert I, King of France 
06/09/1075 Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen 
06/09/1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 
06/09/1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch 
06/09/1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River 
06/09/1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass 
06/09/1720 Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm 
06/09/1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe 
06/09/1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia 
06/09/1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion 
06/09/1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions 
06/09/1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I 
06/09/1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Book 
06/09/1822 Charles Graham receives 1st patent for false teeth 
06/09/1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time) 
06/09/1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp 
06/09/1863 Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford) 
06/09/1864 Battle of Big Shanty, GA 
06/09/1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha) 
06/09/1865 Battle of Grand Gulf, MS 
06/09/1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California 
06/09/1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila) 
06/09/1870 Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud 
06/09/1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El) 
06/09/1890 Opera 'Robin Hood' is produced (Chicago) 
06/09/1891 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti 
06/09/1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years 
06/09/1899 Jim Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons for Heavyweight boxing crown 
06/09/1901 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13 
06/09/1902 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila) 
06/09/1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #635 Vundtia 
06/09/1914 Honus Wagner becomes 1st baseball player to get 3,000 hits 
06/09/1919 General steel metal strike in France 
06/09/1919 Red Army captures Ufa 
06/09/1919 Universal metal strike in France 
06/09/1923 Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown 
06/09/1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia 
06/09/1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Cura‡aose hostages free 
06/09/1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4) 
06/09/1931 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon 
06/09/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1197 Rhodesia 
06/09/1931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design 
06/09/1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power 
06/09/1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released 
06/09/1934 Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for US Open 
06/09/1936 Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for US Open 
06/09/1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany 
06/09/1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill 
06/09/1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II 
06/09/1940 W Lawson Little wins US Open golf tournament 
06/09/1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500

06/09/1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio 
06/09/1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in cabinet-Gerbrandy 
06/09/1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe 
06/09/1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia 
06/09/1943 Congress passes 'pay-as-you-go' income tax 
06/09/1944 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn 
06/09/1944 Russian offensive in Carelia 
06/09/1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque Iowa) 
06/09/1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest 
06/09/1946 Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand 
06/09/1946 NY Giant Mel Ott becomes 1st manager to be ejected from both 
06/09/1946 games of a doubleheader 
06/09/1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting 
06/09/1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US 
06/09/1953 South African premier Malan visits Netherlands 
06/09/1953 Tornado strikes Worcester Mass destroying Assumption College 
06/09/1955 100øF-Hottest day in Seattle Washington 
06/09/1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed 
06/09/1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM 
06/09/1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct) 
06/09/1960 ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract 
06/09/1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-

06/09/1963 Barbra Striesand appears on 'Ed Sullivan Show' 
06/09/1963 JFK names Winston Churchill US honarary citizen 
06/09/1963 Movie 'Cleopatra' opens in NY 
06/09/1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament 
06/09/1965 Michel Fazy runs mile in 3:53.6 
06/09/1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 
06/09/1967 Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl 
06/09/1968 Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms 
06/09/1969 Brian Jones quits Rolling Stones 
06/09/1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice 
06/09/1970 Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongan¡a 
06/09/1970 Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice 
06/09/1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan 
06/09/1971 Paul McCartney's album 'Ram' goes gold 
06/09/1972 14' of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 200 
06/09/1972 1st all-nite grad parties 
06/09/1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia 
06/09/1973 Secretariat wins 105th Belmont Stakes (2:24) & Triple Crown 
06/09/1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert 
06/09/1975 E Roemer discovers asteroid #1983 Bok 
06/09/1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla) 
06/09/1977 George & Patti Harrison divorce 
06/09/1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks 
06/09/1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London 
06/09/1978 Larry Holmes wins a decision over Ken Norton for WBC crown 
06/09/1979 Coastal wins Belmont Stakes 
06/09/1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes 
06/09/1979 Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time 
06/09/1979 Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome 
06/09/1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine 
06/09/1980 Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM 
06/09/1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth 
06/09/1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley 
06/09/1983 M Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election 
06/09/1984 'Laserphonic Fantasy' premieres 
06/09/1984 Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 'Time After Times' 
06/09/1984 Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland 
06/09/1984 Jrgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts 
06/09/1984 NASA launches Intelsat V, it failed 
06/09/1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD 
06/09/1984 Swale wins Belmont Stakes (8 days later Swale dies) 
06/09/1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon 
06/09/1985 Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France 
06/09/1985 LA Lakers beats Boston Celtics in 6 games for NBA title 
06/09/1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus 
06/09/1986 Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-

06/09/1986 Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points 
06/09/1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol 
06/09/1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK 
06/09/1989 'Star Trek V' premieres 
06/09/1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football 
06/09/1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to fina

06/09/1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1 
06/09/1990 Andrew Cuomo marries Kerry Kennedy 
06/09/1990 Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer 
06/09/1990 Go & Go wins 122nd Belmont Stakes 
06/09/1990 Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed 
06/09/1990 Monoica Salas beats Steffi Graff for French Open title 
06/09/1991 Hansel wins Belmont Stakes 
06/09/1991 Jim Courier beats Andre Agassi for French Open 
06/09/1991 World Bowl-World League of American Football 1st championship 
06/09/1993 Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada 
06/09/1993 Montreal Candians beat LA Kings 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
06/09/1994 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico 
06/09/1994 Angolian plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed) 
06/09/1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires 
  
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