1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1864 – Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
1950 – Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1955 – UN disapproves of South Africa’s apartheid politics
1961 – The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
1976 – UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B vs. Northern Transvaal B
2004 – 38th Country Music Association Awards: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride and Keith Urban win
2005 – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people
2021 – EU accuses Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko of “inhuman, gangster-style approach” to thousands of migrants massing on their border with Poland in freezing conditions
Author: gil7
Today in History for 9th November 2024
Historical Events
1620 – After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)
1963 – Tsurumi rail accident on Tōkaidō Main Line, two passenger trains collide with derailed freight train, killing 162 people. in Yokohama, Japan
1964 – Victor Borge’s “Comedy in Music – Opus 2” opens at John Golden Theatre, NYC; runs for 192 performances
1982 – Sugar Ray Leonard retires for the first time
2015 – “Reclining Nude” by Italian artist Modigliani fetches 2nd highest auction price at $170.4m
2020 – Peru’s Congress votes to impeach and oust President Martín Vizcarra on corruption charges
Famous Birthdays
1820 – Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1892)
1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician, 1st President of Italy (1948), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1959)
1888 – Jean Monnet, French political economist and diplomat, born in Cognac, France (d. 1979)
1922 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French humorist, born in Mouscron, Belgium (d. 2006)
1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist and sex researcher, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Canadian rock singer, born in Montreal, Quebec
Famous Deaths
1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer and landscape painter, dies at about 78 [exact birthdate uncertain, c. 1731]
1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist, dies at 37
1985 – Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1994 – Ralph Michael, British actor (Quest, Doctor in the House), dies at 87
2000 – Hugh Paddick, English actor (Round the Horne), dies at 85
2017 – Hans Vermeulen, Dutch singer and guitarist (Sandy Coast), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 6th November 2024
1839 – Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec and author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1897 – Édouard Deldevez, French violinist and composer, dies at 80
1912 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (Taras Bulba), conductor and ethnomusicologist, dies at 70
1944 – Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, Anglo-Irish politician, British prefect (Middle-East), assassinated by Jewish terrorists at 64
1963 – Djuanda Kartawidjaja, Indonesian teacher, engineer, and politician (11th and final Prime Minister of Indonesia, 1957-59). dies of a heart attack at 52
1968 – Guillaume Landré, Dutch composer, dies at 63
2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (Sleuth), dies at 75
2005 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer, dies at 90
2010 – Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
2022 – Betty Johnson, American pop and cabaret singer (Jack Paar Show; “I Dreamed”), dies at 93
Historical Events for 6th November 2024
1865 – Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1919 – 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with “Turf in you(r) ransel” is broadcast
1932 – German election – KPD defeats NSDAP
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected US President
1981 – Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 – President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1993 – Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 – Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2006 – 40th Country Music Association Awards: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban win
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Today in History for 6th November 2024
Historical Events
1869 – 1st US college football game, players used their hands or feet, Rutgers 6 Princeton 4
1919 – 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with “Turf in you(r) ransel” is broadcast
1962 – Edward W. Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1981 – Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 – Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
2009 – President Barack Obama signs congressional resolution conferring honorary U.S. citizenship to Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski
Famous Birthdays
1661 – Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg King of Spain (reigns 1665-1700), born in Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Spain (d. 1700)
1822 – Gordon Granger, American Major General during the Civil War (Union Army), born in Wayne County, New York (d. 1876)
1936 – K. Schippers [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author (Een klok en profil), born in Amsterdam
1937 – Edwin Roxburgh, English composer and conductor, born in Liverpool, England
1946 – Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1972 – Garry Flitcroft, English soccer midfielder, manager (Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers), born in Bolton, Lancashire
Famous Deaths
1492 – Antoine Busnois, French composer known for his chansons, dies at about 62
1597 – Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain [Catalina Micaela de Austria], Duchess consort of Savoy (1585-97), dies at 30
1912 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (Taras Bulba), conductor and ethnomusicologist, dies at 70
1986 – Lili Kraus, Czech-Hungarian-British concert pianist and educator, dies at 81
1989 – Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (Detective Story), dies of cancer at 40
2021 – Shawn Rhoden, Jamaican bodybuilder (Mr. Olympia 2018; IFBB British Grand Prix 2012), dies from a heart attack at 46
Today in History for 3rd November 2024
Historical Events
1930 – Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide, with Hubert Humphrey as his vice president, defeating Republican candidate Barry Goldwater
1968 – David Pearson is declared NASCAR Grand National champion as Cale Yarborough wins season ending Peach State 200 at Jefferson, Georgia; Pearson finishes 126 points ahead of Bobby Isaac to secure his 2nd title
1985 – French McLaren driver Alain Prost wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 4th in the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 20 points from Italian Michele Alboreto
2012 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 2 winners: George Vancouver, Groupie Doll, Tapizar, Mizdirection, Shanghai Bobby, Little Mike, Trinniberg, Wise Dan, Fort Larned
2023 – 38th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Kate Bush; Sheryl Crow; Missy Elliott; George Michael; Willie Nelson; Rage Against the Machine; The Spinners; DJ Kool Herc; Link Wray; Chaka Khan; Al Kooper; Bernie Taupin; and Don Cornelius
Famous Birthdays
1781 – Friedrich Wollank, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1831)
1799 – William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1931 – Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Turkish freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 57kg 1956, 62kg 1960; World C’ship gold 1954, 57, 59), born in Söğütpınar, Turkey (d. 2022)
1940 – Charlie Gallagher, Scottish soccer inside forward (2 caps Republic of Ireland; Celtic, Dumbarton), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2021)
1951 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News, born in Jersey City, New Jersey
1983 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1708 – Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau and daughter of Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, dies at 71
1911 – Salvador Giner y Vidal, Spanish composer, dies at 79
1945 – James Frederick Wagner, father of Priscilla Presley, dies in a plane crash
1983 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American Emmy Award-winning conductor (CBS Symphony; Columbia Pan-American Orchestra), and composer (The Great City), dies during heart surgery at 82
1993 – John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), dies at 65
2022 – Wang Tao, Chinese soccer striker (2 caps; Dalian Wanda FC) and executive (founder BSU FC), dies at 52
Historical Events for 2nd November 2024
1907 – Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1917 – In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
1944 – Canadian troops occupy Knokke in Belgium
1959 – Charles Van Doren confesses during a congressional investigation that TV quiz show “Twenty-One” was fixed
1976 – Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford; Walter Mondale elected vice president
1990 – First regular season game played outside North America by any major professional sports league the NBA’s Phoenix Suns beat the Utah Jazz, 119-96 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Japan
1993 – Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey
1996 – Miami Heat’s Pat Riley becomes eighth coach to win 800 games in 97-95 win at Indiana; milestone accomplished 2 weeks shy of his 15th coaching anniversary, faster than any coach in NBA history
2017 – On This Day and Xiaomi launch a content partnership to display today in history content in Xiaomi’s calendar app to users in India
2021 – Jihadist gunman ambush and kill 69 people, including a local mayor in south-west Niger, adding to the 530 killed in 2021 to date
Famous Deaths for 26th October 2024
1764 – William Hogarth, English satiric painter and engraver (Rake’s Progress), dies at 66
1773 – Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, dies at 82
1867 – John Fawcett, English composer, dies at 77
1935 – Akos Buttykai, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
1956 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist, composer, and lepidopterist, dies at 60
1965 – Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (Bavarian State Opera, 1922-36), dies at 77
1971 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (For the Freedom of Ireland, Salome), dies at 71
1993 – Absolutely Nobody [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
1995 – Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 18th October 2024
1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer (Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu, Veyipadagalu), dies at 81
1977 – Kristian Hauger, Norwegian jazz pianist, orchestra leader and songwriter (“Charleston i Grukkedalen”), dies at 71
1978 – Jacques Mornard [Ramon Mercader], Spanish communist (murdered Trotsky in Mexico with an ice axe), dies at 64
1994 – Lee Allen, American tenor sax player (“Walkin’ With Mr Lee”), dies of cancer at 68
1999 – Tony Crombie, English jazz drummer and bandleader, dies at 74
2010 – Marion Brown, American jazz alto saxophonist, (Marion Brown Quartet; John Coltrane -“Ascension”; Artie Schepp), avant garde composer, writer, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79
2013 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German influential literary critic, dies at 93
2014 – Edward Regan, American Republican politician and Comptroller of New York (1979-93), dies at 84
2021 – Colin Powell, American General and 1st Black US Secretary of State (2001-05), dies from complications of COVID-19, blood cancer, and Parkinson’s disease at 84
Historical Events for 18th October 2024
1572 – Spanish troops attack Maastricht
1805 – 45 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee’s home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women’s clubs in America
1967 – Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe
1978 – NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1980 – Bernard Slade’s stage comedy “Romantic Comedy”, closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after for 396 performances
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1999 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 1
2009 – British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 5th in Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship
2017 – 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”
2019 – The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-host “Event 201”, a table-top panel exercise on dealing with aa fictional high-level pandemic exercise in New York City