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Interesting things that happened November 9th:

Birthdays on this date:
 In 1802 Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher, abolitionist
 In 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers and Sons)
 In 1821 Charles Baudelaire, poet
 In 1825 Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill, Commander Third Corps, ANV
 In 1830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer photographer
 In 1841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
 In 1850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
 In 1898 Paul Robeson, actor and singer
 In 1903 Gregory Pincus, birth control pill inventor
       + Ward Bond
 In 1913 Hedy Lamarr, actor (Extase, Algiers, White Cargo), inventor (spread
         spectrum communications for weapons guidance)
 In 1915 Sargent Shriver, former VP candidate, Peace Corps leader
 In 1918 Florence Chadwick, Channel Swimmer
       + Spiro Agnew (R), 39th VP (1973-77), crook
 In 1926 Hugh Hefner, publisher
 In 1930 Charlies Jones, sportscaster
 In 1932 Carl Perkins, musician
 In 1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo
 In 1934 Carl Sagan, astronomer, author (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
 In 1936 Bob Graham, senator (Florida)
       + Mikhail N. Tal of USSR, world chess champion (1960-61)
 In 1937 Mary Travers (in Louisville, KY), singer (Peter Paul and Mary)
 In 1939 Michael Learned, actor
 In 1951 Lou Ferrigno, body builder, actor (Incredible Hulk)

Events worth noting:
       + Feast of Dedication of Church of the Lateran, Rome
 In 1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (first consul) of France.
 In 1848 Post Office at Clay and Pike opens.
 In 1861 Battle of Piketon, Ky.
 In 1904 First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes.
 In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I.
 In 1924 Miriam "Ma" Ferguson (Texas) and Nellie Tayloe Ross (Wyoming) become
         first elected female governors in U.S.
 In 1934 Committee for Industrial Organization formed in an effort to expand
         industrial unions' strength.
 In 1938 The "Kristallnacht" in Germany -- the start of Hitler's Holocaust.
 In 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union.
 In 1965 Massive power failure in New England and Ontario, Canada at 5:16
         p.m.
 In 1967 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module.
 In 1989 The Berlin Wall opens.

And remember ...
 International Drum Month
 National Adoption Month
 National Diabetes Month
 National Impotency Month
 National Raisin Bread Month

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several errors have been found in the past.  Don't place any bets on the basis
of what you find here.  -- Gabe