Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sun May 09 2021 12:05 am
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:
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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