today.nukz.net: Almanac November 9

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater.

In 1954, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and in 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999, she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry as Dandridge. She has been recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Events

694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Forces was founded. Known then as the "90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles".
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1947 – India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 – Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.

Births

1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 – Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1606 – Hermann Conring, German intellectual (d. 1681)
1664 – Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1723 – Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, Prussian composer (d. 1787)
1731 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer (d. 1806)
1732 – Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1801 – Gail Borden, Jr., American inventor(d. 1874)
1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1811 – Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins (d. 1872)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1825 – A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1829 – Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (d. 1918)
1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmachologist (d. 1929)
1853 – Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
1877 – Enrico De Nicola, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
1877 – Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Philospher and Urdu/Persian poet (d. 1938)
1878 – An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1879 – Jeno Bory, Hungarian architect (d. 1959)
1880 – Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 – S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1889 – Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
1890 – George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
1902 – Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
1904 – Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
1911 – Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
1913 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
1914 – Thomas Berry, American theologian and deep ecologist (d. 2009)
1915 – André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, Co-Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
1918 – Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (d. 2011)
1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1922 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 – Alice Coachman, American athlete
1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 – Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
1929 – Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
1933 – Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
1934 – Ronald Harwood, South African author and playwright
1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player
1936 – Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
1936 – Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
1936 – Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) (d. 2009)
1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1941 – Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
1944 – Phil May, English singer (The Pretty Things)
1945 – Richard Goldberg, convicted American sex offender and former fugitive
1945 – Moeletsi Mbeki, Political and economic commentator, South African economist
1946 – Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 – Bille August, Danish film and television director
1948 – Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer
1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and star of The Incredible Hulk
1951 – Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1952 – Sherrod Brown, American politician, senior senator of Ohio
1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1953 – Rhetta Hughes, American singer and actress
1954 – Shankar Nag, Indian film actor and director
1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis)
1954 – Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 – Thomas F. Duffy American actor
1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
1955 – Bob Nault, Canadian politician
1959 – Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
1959 – Sito Pons, Spanish motorcycle racer
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
1960 – Joëlle Ursull, Guadeloupean singer
1961 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
1963 – Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
1964 – Sandra Denton, American musician (Salt-N-Pepa)
1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1969 – Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1970 – Nelson Diebel, American swimmer
1970 – Domino, American music producer
1970 – Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
1970 – Chris Jericho, Canadian wrestler and musician (Fozzy)
1970 – Scarface, American rapper
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1971 – David Duval, American golfer
1971 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1971 – Big Pun, American rapper (d. 2000)
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
1972 – Doug Russell, American sports radio and television personality
1972 – Corin Tucker, American musician (Sleater-Kinney)
1972 – Naomi Shindou, Japanese voice actor
1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress
1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1974 – Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian Actress
1977 – Chris Morgan, English footballer
1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
1978 – Steven López, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 – Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 – James Harper, English footballer
1980 – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Filipino television personality
1981 – Lyn, South Korean singer
1981 – Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
1982 – Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
1982 – Boaz Myhill, American-born Welsh footballer
1983 – Rob Elloway, English/German rugby player
1983 – Ted Potter, Jr., American professional golfer
1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 – Seven, South Korean singer
1984 – Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
1985 – Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish hockey player
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French male model
1990 – Hodgy Beats, American rapper (OFWGKTA)
1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer

Deaths

748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, last Umayyad governor of Khurasan (b. 663)
959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje, last prince of Celje principality (b. 1406)
1516 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1581 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
1623 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 – Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress of Charles II (b. 1646)
1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1801 – Carl Stamitz, German-Czech composer (b. 1745)
1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1848 – Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
1881 – Edwin Drake, American oil driller (b. 1819)
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, British victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
1911 – Howard Pyle, American illustrator and author (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1918 – Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (b. 1829)
1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1920 – Saint Nectarios, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pentapolis (b. 1846)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1932 – Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player (b. 1860)
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889)
1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1940 – Neville Chamberlain, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Israeli politician and 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
1952 – Philip Murray, American labor leader and 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
1953 – King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud the first monarch of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1955 – André Rischmann, French rugby player (b. 1882)
1957 – Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French military commander, politician, President of France (b. 1890)
1971 – Maude Fealy, American actress (b. 1883)
1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1979 – Frank O'Connor, American actor and representationalist painter (b. 1897)
1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
1985 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
1988 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
1992 – William Hillcourt, Danish author (b. 1900)
1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian politician (b. 1945)
1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b. 1908)
2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili littérateur (b. 1937)
2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English football player (b. 1947)
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer and journalist (b. 1954)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician and President of India (b. 1921)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 – Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
2008 – Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali Bombings (b. 1960)
2008 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali Bombings (b. 1962)
2008 – Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali Bombings (b. 1970)