Subj : This Day In History
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From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Fri Apr 09 2021 12:05 pm

 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:

04/09/1598 Johann Cruger, composer
04/09/1611 Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer
04/09/1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer
04/09/1630 Fran�ois Couperin, French music theory/organist, baptised
04/09/1634 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau
04/09/1649 James Scott Duke, of Monmouth
04/09/1716 Johann Georg Zechner, composer
04/09/1717 Matthias Georg Monn, composer
04/09/1751 Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann J Schickeneder], German playwright
04/09/1754 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
04/09/1754 Pieter Paul, lawyer/chairman (National Meeting)
04/09/1757 Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
04/09/1785 Sibrand Acker Stratingh, physician/chemist (electric baboon 1835)
04/09/1794 Theobald B�hm, flautist/composer
04/09/1798 Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
04/09/1802 Elias L�nrot, folklorist
04/09/1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
04/09/1806 Louis count of Barrthy�nyi, premier of Hungary
04/09/1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
04/09/1821 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
04/09/1826 Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 188

04/09/1830 Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography
04/09/1835 Leopold II, King of Belgium (1865-1909)
04/09/1847 Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
04/09/1847 Francis William Davenport, composer
04/09/1848 Helena Lange, German feminist
04/09/1850 Herman Zumpe, composer
04/09/1851 C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies)
04/09/1854 Seaborn M Denson, composer
04/09/1861 Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
04/09/1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity
04/09/1865 Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany)
04/09/1871 Arthur Fickenscher, composer
04/09/1872 L�on Blum, French premier (People's front govt)
04/09/1874 Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Tie Veilchen)
04/09/1879 Gerald Festus Kelly, artist
04/09/1879 W C Fields, [William Claude Dukinfield], Phila (or 01291880)
04/09/1883 Renzo Bossi, composer
04/09/1884 Franco Vittadini, composer
04/09/1888 Sol Hurok, theatrical impresario
04/09/1889 Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on the Don Russia, composer/concert violinis

04/09/1894 Ernest Kanitz, composer
04/09/1895 Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
04/09/1895 Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
04/09/1898 Earl 'Curly' Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
04/09/1898 Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer
04/09/1898 Paul Robeson, Philadelphia, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer
04/09/1900 Allen Jenkins, NYC, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit)
04/09/1902 Frantisek Suchy, composer [or April 21, 1891]
04/09/1903 Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill)
04/09/1903 Ward Bond, Denver Colo, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains)
04/09/1903 Willem P�e, Belgian linguist
04/09/1905 J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)
04/09/1906 Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dressden Opera 1928-29)
04/09/1906 Todd Naylor 'Hugh' Gaitskell, leader British Labour party
04/09/1908 Fred Lohse, composer
04/09/1908 Victor Vasarely, painter (Op Art)
04/09/1909 Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
04/09/1909 Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
04/09/1909 Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer
04/09/1910 Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)
04/09/1911 Lord Deramore, architect
04/09/1914 Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
04/09/1917 Vincent O'Brien, racehorse trainer
04/09/1918 J�rn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House)
04/09/1919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)
04/09/1920 Alex Moulton, bicycle designer
04/09/1920 Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
04/09/1920 David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
04/09/1920 F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
04/09/1921 Frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)
04/09/1922 Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
04/09/1922 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service
04/09/1923 Bruno Kiefer, composer
04/09/1924 Harald Heilmann, composer
04/09/1925 Michael Richardson, vice chairman (N M Rotschild)
04/09/1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office)
04/09/1926 Graham Hills, principal (Strathclyde University, England)
04/09/1926 Harris Wofford, (Sen-R-Pennsylvania)
04/09/1926 Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher (Playboy)
04/09/1926 Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland)
04/09/1926 Michael Ogden, QC
04/09/1928 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
04/09/1928 Floyd D Spence, (Rep-R-SC, 1971-  )
04/09/1928 Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer, proposed poisoning pigeons
04/09/1929 Harvey Lichtenstein, pres Bkln Academy of Music
04/09/1931 Bill Gilbert, Wasah DC, sports author (They Also Served, Big E)
04/09/1931 Martin Rogers, director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies)

04/09/1932 Carl Perkins, Jackson Tn, singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)
04/09/1932 Jim Fowler, Albany Ga, naturalist (Wild Kingdom)
04/09/1932 Peter Moores, director of Littlewoods
04/09/1933 Gian Maria Volont�, Milan Italy, actress (Fistful of Dollars)
04/09/1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris France, actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique)
04/09/1933 Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University)
04/09/1935 Aulis Sallinen, composer
04/09/1935 Avery Schreiber, Chicago Ill, comedian (My Mother the Car)
04/09/1936 Jerzy Maksymiuk, composer
04/09/1936 Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea

04/09/1937 Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course)
04/09/1937 Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster
04/09/1939 Michael Learned, Wash DC, actress (Olivia-Waltons, Nurse)
04/09/1941 Hannah Gordon, actress (Oh Alfie)
04/09/1942 Brandon De Wilde, Bkln NY, actor (Jamie, Wild in the Sky)
04/09/1942 Earl F Hillard, (Rep-D-Alabama)
04/09/1942 Galina Koulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972)
04/09/1945 Gus Hardin, [Carol Ann Blankenship], Tulsa Okla, country singer
04/09/1946 Alan Knott, cricketer
04/09/1946 Les Gray, vocalist (Mud-Cat Crept In)
04/09/1946 Philip Wright, rocker (Paper Lace)
04/09/1948 Chico Ryan, rocker (Sha Na Na)
04/09/1950 Kenneth D Cockrell, Austin Texas, Astronaut (STS 56)
04/09/1950 Nathan Cook, Phila Pa, actor (Milton-White Shadow, Billy-Hotel)
04/09/1952 Magnar Am, composer
04/09/1953 Hal Ketchum, Greenwich NY, country singer (Small Town Saturday Night

04/09/1954 Dennis Quaid, Houston TX, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
04/09/1957 Ednita Nazario, Ponce PR, spanish singer
04/09/1957 Severlano Ballesteros, Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)
04/09/1958 Tony Sibson, boxer
04/09/1959 Dave Innis, Bartlesville Okla, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels

04/09/1961 Mark Kelly, Dublin Ireland, keyboards, (Marillion-Real to Reel)
04/09/1965 Paulina Porizkova, Prostejov Czech, model (Playboy-Aug 87)
04/09/1967 Robin Wright, Dallas Texas, actress (Loon, State of Grace, Denial)
04/09/1971 Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 (Oly-1988)
04/09/1979 Keshia Knight Pulliam, Newark NJ, actress (Rudy-Crosby)
04/09/1990 Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad


Deaths:

04/09/ 715 Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
04/09/1024 Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies
04/09/1483 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38
04/09/1492 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
04/09/1553 Fran�ois Rabelais, author (Gargabtua & Pantagruel), dies at 63
04/09/1557 Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
04/09/1626 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, statesman, dies
04/09/1681 Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54
04/09/1747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in Englan

04/09/1761 William Law, theologian, dies
04/09/1765 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 7

04/09/1793 Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
04/09/1804 Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman
04/09/1806 Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58
04/09/1807 John Opie, infant prodigy/painter/illustrator, dies
04/09/1821 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
04/09/1850 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
04/09/1851 Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80
04/09/1852 John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
04/09/1862 George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
04/09/1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
04/09/1879 Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70
04/09/1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet/pre-Raphaelite painter, dies
04/09/1886 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
04/09/1893 Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
04/09/1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
04/09/1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies
04/09/1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62
04/09/1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
04/09/1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies
04/09/1931 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 68
04/09/1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55
04/09/1939 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89
04/09/1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies
04/09/1944 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59
04/09/1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged
04/09/1945 Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, 'July 20th plot', hanged
04/09/1945 Hans von Dohnanyi, 'July 20th plotter', hanged
04/09/1945 Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
04/09/1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
04/09/1948 Jorge Elecier Gait�n, Colombian politician, murdered
04/09/1951 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies
04/09/1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89

04/09/1954 Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65
04/09/1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89
04/09/1961 Milk I, [Ahmed Zogu], PM/president/king of Angolia, dies at 65
04/09/1961 Zog, King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
04/09/1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
04/09/1966 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
04/09/1976 Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46
04/09/1982 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
04/09/1982 Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
04/09/1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
04/09/1986 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64
04/09/1988 Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningit

04/09/1988 Dave Prater, singer, dies at 50 in an auto accident
04/09/1991 Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
04/09/1992 Gale McGee, senator-Wyoming (1959-77)
04/09/1993 Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch politician (KVP), dies at 74
04/09/1994 Cornelis N 'Cor' van Dis Jr, Dutch 2nd parl (1971-94), dies at 71
04/09/1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
04/09/1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
04/09/1994 Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered


Significant Events:

04/09/ 715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04/09/1241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
04/09/1388 Battle of N�fels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
04/09/1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
04/09/1609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
04/09/1621 Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
04/09/1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
04/09/1682 La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
04/09/1770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
04/09/1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace

04/09/1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
04/09/1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
04/09/1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
04/09/1833 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
04/09/1838 National Galley opens in London
04/09/1861 Asteroid 66, Maia discovered
04/09/1861 H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #66 Maja
04/09/1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill LA
04/09/1865 Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama
04/09/1865 Robert E Lee & 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox
04/09/1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
04/09/1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
04/09/1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
04/09/1906 3�th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
04/09/1907 P Lowell discovers asteroid #793 Arizona
04/09/1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
04/09/1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
04/09/1913 Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0
04/09/1914 1st full color film shown 'World, Flesh & Devil' (London)
04/09/1914 Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
04/09/1917 Battle of Arras begins
04/09/1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
04/09/1918 Latvia proclaims independence
04/09/1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
04/09/1927 Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
04/09/1928 Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play 'Diamond Lil'
04/09/1928 Turkey passes separation of church & state
04/09/1931 Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
04/09/1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1180 Rita
04/09/1932 Tor Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games for Stanley Cup
04/09/1935 Montreal Maroons sweep Tor Maple Leafs 3 games to 0 for Stanley Cup
04/09/1938 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #1715 Salli
04/09/1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
04/09/1940 German cruiser Bl�cher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
04/09/1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
04/09/1940 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2639 Planman
04/09/1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
04/09/1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japs at Bataan
04/09/1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
04/09/1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360

04/09/1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
04/09/1946 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
04/09/1947 Atomic Energy Commission formed
04/09/1947 Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
04/09/1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
04/09/1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
04/09/1950 Jimmy Demaret wins 3rd Masters golf tournament
04/09/1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia
04/09/1953 'TV Guide' publishes 1st issue
04/09/1953 Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
04/09/1954 WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
04/09/1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
04/09/1959 1st 7 astronauts presented to press
04/09/1959 Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators)
04/09/1959 Bill Sharman hits a record 56 consecutive foul shot
04/09/1959 Boston Celtics win 8th consecutive NBA championship (record)
04/09/1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
04/09/1960 Boston beats St Louis, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
04/09/1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
04/09/1962 Arnold Palmer wins his 3rd Masters golf tournament
04/09/1962 JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
04/09/1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
04/09/1965 Beatles 'Ticket to Ride' is released in UK
04/09/1965 India & Pakistan engage in border fight
04/09/1966 Anaheim Stadium for Calif Angels opens
04/09/1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
04/09/1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down
04/09/1968 German DR adopts constitution
04/09/1968 Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta
04/09/1968 Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
04/09/1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
04/09/1969 Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-

04/09/1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
04/09/1971 Ringo releases 'It Don't Come Easy' in UK
04/09/1972 Jack Nicklaus wins Masters golf tournament
04/09/1972 USSR & Iraq sign peace treaty
04/09/1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
04/09/1976 US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
04/09/1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
04/09/1978 Gary Player wins his 3rd Masters golf tournament
04/09/1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
04/09/1980 Belgium's Marten's govt resigns
04/09/1980 Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
04/09/1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
04/09/1981 LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
04/09/1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
04/09/1982 LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
04/09/1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
04/09/1983 Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penality shot
04/09/1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
04/09/1986 'Dallas' announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
04/09/1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game
04/09/1987 Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ

04/09/1988 Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
04/09/1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
04/09/1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
04/09/1989 Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament
04/09/1990 'Capital News' starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
04/09/1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
04/09/1990 NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1

04/09/1990 World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
04/09/1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0
04/09/1991 Georgia SSR votes to seceede from USSR
04/09/1992 'Redwood Curtain' opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
04/09/1992 John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
04/09/1992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
04/09/1992 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
04/09/1993 Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
04/09/1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

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