today.nukz.net: Almanac May 9

Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. This total includes the number 1 hits "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket", "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", and "Hello Love" as well as other top ten hits. He is a member of both the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music Hall of Fame.

Events

328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877 – Mihail Kogalniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Smigly celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1960 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 – A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2002 – In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
2004 – Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.

Births

1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1540 – Maharana Pratap,Indian King (d.1597)

1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)

1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (d. 1866)
1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)

1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)
1873 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967)
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
1886 – Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947)
1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
1896 – Richard Day, Canadian film art director (d. 1972)
1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
1904 – Conrad Bernier, French-Canadian organist, composer and teacher (d. 1988)
1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
1907 – Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)
1908 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (d. 2007)
1909 – Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer (d. 1990)
1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian writer (d. 1943)
1914 – Denham Fouts, American male prostitute and socialite (d. 1948)
1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance (d. 2011)
1918 – Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
1919 – Clifford Chadderton, Canadian World War II veteran, chief executive officer of The War Amps
1919 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995)
1920 – Richard Adams, English author
1920 – William Tenn, American author (d. 2010)
1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (d. 2008)
1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter
1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
1929 – Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
1930 – Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist
1931 – Vance Brand, American astronaut
1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress
1933 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist
1934 – Alan Bennett, British author
1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English children's author (Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
1936 – Albert Finney, British actor
1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
1937 – José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
1937 – Sonny Curtis, American singer, songwriter, guitarist
1937 – David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States
1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
1939 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)
1939 – Ion Tiriac, Romanian tennis manager
1940 – James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
1941 – Pete Birrell, British bass guitarist
1942 – John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General
1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer and songwriter
1942 – Jerry Buchek, American baseball players
1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (d. 2009)
1944 – Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)
1944 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
1945 – Steve Katz, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
1946 – Clint Holmes, English-born American singer and songwriter
1946 – Ayse Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
1947 – Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter
1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player
1948 – Tania Maria, Brazilian jazz vocalist and pianist
1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
1950 – Tom Petersson, American bass guitarist (Cheap Trick)
1950 – James Butts, former American athlete
1951 – Alley Mills, American actress
1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
1953 – Amy Hill, American actress
1953 – Connie Kaldor, Canadian folk singer/songwriter, member of the Order of Canada
1954 – Lawrence Dutton, American violist
1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
1958 – Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer
1959 – Ulrich Matthes, German actor
1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player
1961 – Sean Altman, American singer (Rockapella)
1962 – John Corbett, American actor
1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)
1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer/songwriter (Beautiful South)
1963 – Joe Cirella, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)
1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese racing driver
1965 – Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant
1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Mark Tinordi, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – David Benoit, American basketball player
1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French athlete
1969 – Amber, Dutch musician
1969 – Hudson Leick, American actress
1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
1971 – Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist
1972 – Dana Perino, former White House press secretary
1972 – Daniela Silivas, Romanian gymnast and Olympic Champion
1972 – Lisa Ann, American Pornographic Actress
1973 – Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
1974 – Dylan Lauren,American businesswoman & daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren
1974 – Stéphane Yelle, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Brian Deegan, freestyle motocross innovator
1975 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
1975 – Lane Kiffin, American football coach
1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer
1976 – Christos Marangos, Greek-Cypriot footballer
1977 – Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
1977 – Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006)
1977 – Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
1977 – Svein Tuft, Canadian road bicycle rider
1978 – Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine footballer
1978 – Santiago Dellapè, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player
1979 – Dionysis Boukouvalas, Greek composer, pianist and musicologist
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 – Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter
1979 – Andrew W.K., American musician
1979 – Ara Mina, Filipina actress
1979 – Brandon Webb, American baseball player
1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1980 – Jo Hyeon-jae, South Korean actor
1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater
1980 – Tony Schmidt, German racing driver
1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player
1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
1981 – Yu Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer
1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1985 – Henrique, Brazilian soccer player
1985 – Jake Long, American football player
1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress
1988 – John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver
1992 – Chris Gutierrez, Filipino actor
1993 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
1997 – Zane Huett, American actor

Deaths

1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1446 – Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)
1657 – William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
1736 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese diplomat and statesman (b. 1658)
1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1789 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
1790 – William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1791 – Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
1861 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1889 – William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
1914 – C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
1915 – François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 – George Cosbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1938 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
1955 – Kate Booth, oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
1957 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
1957 – Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (b. 1887)
1964 – Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
1968 – Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
1968 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1885)
1970 – Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
1976 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, German communist militant (b. 1934)
1977 – James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy: 1963-1968, 1974-1976 (b. 1916)
1979 – Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist (b. 1883)
1981 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
1985 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and 1st sherpa to climb Mt. Everest (b. 1914)
1987 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician and stateman (b. 1909)
1989 – Keith Whitley, American country music singer (b. 1955)
1993 – Jacques Dextraze, French Canadian military officer (b. 1919)
1994 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
1997 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (b. 1926)
1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
1997 – Rina Lasnier, French Canadian poet (b. 1915)
1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
1998 – Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (b. 1933)
1998 – Talat Mahmood, Indian singer (b. 1924)
2000 – Arthur Davis, American animator (b. 1905)
2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919)
2002 – Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
2003 – Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
2004 – Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
2005 – Nasrat Parsa, Afghan singer (b. 1969)
2007 – Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1901)
2007 – Edith Rodriguez, woman refused emergency room treatment for gastrointestinal perforation (b. 1964)
2008 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
2008 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
2008 – Pascal Sevran, French TV presenter and author (b. 1945)
2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
2009 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist (b. 1924)
2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
2010 – Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932)
2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)