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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of November 09:

 1731 Benjamin Banneker Ellicott MD, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1802 Elijah P Lovejoy American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1818 Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1825 Ambrose P Hill Lt General (Commander 3rd Corps, ANV)
1841 Edward VII king of England (1901-10)
1850 Lewis Lewin Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacology
1886 Ed Wynn Philadelphia PA, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1891 Clifton Webb actor (Sitting Pretty, Mr Belvedere Goes to College)
1898 Paul Robeson actor/singer/football star (King Solomon's Mines)
19-- Charles Robinson Houston TX, actor (Mac-Night Court, Buffalo Bill)
19-- Pauline Myers Ocillla GA, actress (Gloria-Storefront Lawyer)
1900 Kathy Negrin()
1903 Gregory Pincus inventor (birth control pill)
1905 James William Fulbright (Sen-D-Mo)
1907 Burrill Phillips Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball)
1913 Hedy Lamarr actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1915 Sargent Shriver Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1918 Florence Chadwick swimmer (Swimming Hall of Fame)
1918 Howard Shanet Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics)
1918 Spiro Theodore Agnew (R) 39th VP (1973-77), crook
1921 Viktor Chukarin USSR, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1928 Anne Sexton Newton MA, poet (Live or Die)
1930 Charlie Jones Forth Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes)
1931 Whitey Herzog baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 Carl Perkins singer (Blue Suede Shoes)
1932 Marian Christy Ridgefield CT, author (Invasions of Privacy)
1934 Carl Sagan NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
1934 Ingvar Carlsson PM of Sweden (1986- )
1935 Bob Gibson Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 Mary Travers Louisville KY, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1936 Mikhail N Tal USSR, world chess champion (1960-61)
1942 Tom Weiskopf Ohio, PGA golfer (British Open 1973)
1945 Roger Lee Jones WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List)
1948 Sharon Stouder US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1951 Lou Ferrigno Brooklyn NY, body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk)
1964 John Joseph Thomas Arcadia CA, actor (Young Daniel Boone)
1969 Pepa rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1974 Dah-ve Chodan actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)

Deaths which occurred on November 09:

1874 Israel Bak created 1st hebrew printing press, dies
1952 Chaim Weizmann 1st President of Israel, dies at 57
1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880)
1953 Dylan Thomas author-poet, dies in NY at 39
1967 Charles Bickford actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 68
1970 Charles DeGaulle French President, dies at 79
1970 William L Dawson (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
1976 Billy Halop actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1978 Joe Wong actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1979 Lewis Charles actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 Carmel Myers actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 Victor Sen Yung actor (Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 Helen Rose costume designer, dies at 81
1985 Mary MacLaren actress, dies at 85 of respiratory problems
1988 John Mitchell former Attorney General, dies of heart attack in Washington
1991 Yves Montand actor, dies at 70 from a heart attack

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1967    ARMSTRONG        JOHN W.           DALLAS                TX       
 1967    BROWER           RALPH W.          STOW                  OH     CRASH DEAD PILOT RECOV  
 1967    CLAY             EUGENE L.         ARLINGTON             TX     CRASH DEAD PILOT RECOV  
 1967    MAYSEY           LARRY W.          CHESTER               NJ     CRASH DEAD PILOT RECOV  
 1967    NOLAN            MCKINLEY          WASHINGTON            TX     11/02/73 LAST SEEN  
 1967    REHN             GARY LEE          PARK RAPIDS           MN       
 1967    SIJAN            LANCE P.          MILWAUKEE             WI     03/17/74 REMAINS RETURNED    DIED DURING RESCUE IN FIGHT W CAPTOR 01/22/68

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On this day...

1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg
1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1848 Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of the Sun
1858 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 The opera "Ermine" is produced (London)
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1913 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272
1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1923 Beer Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow government in Germany
1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1938 "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night)-Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1961 PGA eliminates Caucasians only rule
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
1963 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight
1963 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1965 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1965 Willie Mays named NL MVP
1967 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 Ringo releases "Ringo" album
1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1978 NASL realigns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
1982 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for the 1st time
1983 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43
1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1985 Gary Kasparov (USSR) becomes World Chess Champion at age of 22
1988 MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
1989 East Berlin opens its borders
1990 President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Pakistan : Iqbal Day
Tunisia : Arbor Day/Tree Festival Day
Turks & Caicos Island : Peacemaker's Day
England : Lord Mayor's Day - - - - - ( Saturday )

Religious Observances

RC : Dedication of Church of Lateran (Basilica of Our Savior), Rome
RC-Vatican City : Feast of Dedication of Church of Lateran, Rome

Religious History

1538 German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.'
1800 Birth of Asa Mahan, American educator and Congregational clergyman. President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1835_1850, Mahan was instrumental in establishing interracial college enrollment and in the granting of college degrees to women.
1836 Birth of Christian business traveler Samuel Hill. In 1899 Hill, John Nicholson and W.J. Knights co_founded the Gideons, a Christian organization that ministers through distribution of the Scriptures. To date, the Gideons have placed over 12 million Bibles and 100 million New Testaments.
1837 British philanthropist Moses Montefiore, 52, became the first Jew to be knighted in England. Montefiore was a banking executive who devoted his life to the political and civil emancipation of English Jews.
1938 The worst Jewish pogrom in peacetime Germany took place as Nazi thugs led a "spontaneous" campaign of terror. During the night 267 synagogues were plundered, 7,500 shops were wrecked, 91 Jews were killed and 20,000 others were arrested and sent to concentration camps. It was afterward known as "Kristallnacht" because of the thousands of windows broken.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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