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1857 - Readers picked up a new magazine on newsstands. The Atlantic Monthly featured the first installment of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.1911 - Georges Claude of Paris, France applied for a patent on neon advertising signs. You may have seen his handiwork for advertisers that appeared at various times on the Eiffel Tower.
1912 - Pop Warner was a legendary coach of the Carlisle School for Indians in Pennsylvania (Jim Thorpe played for Warner at Carlisle). On this day, Carlisle hammered Army 27-6. Playing right halfback on the Army team was a future U.S. war hero and president: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created an emergency agency supplying jobs for unemployed men and women called the Civil Works Administration (C.W.A.).
1938 - The kids’ magazine, Jack and Jill, was published. 40,000 of the first edition were printed. By the late 1950s, the popular magazine reached a circulation of 702,000.
1938 - On this night and into the wee hours of the next morning, glass store and house windows were smashed throughout Jewish neighborhoods in Germany. Thousands of books -- volumes of history, philosophy, poetry and religion -- fueled bonfires throughout the ghettoes. Synagogues and the Torah scrolls inside them were burned to the ground. 91 Jews were killed and over 30,000 arrested. It was Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), a sign of the unconscionable, and unforgivable death and destruction soon to come at the hands of the Nazis.
1938 - 24-year-old Mary Martin made her Broadway stage debut in the musical comedy Leave It to Me. She brought down the house as she sang My Heart Belongs to Daddy. And the critics raved about New York’s bright new star.
1944 - The International Committee of the Red Cross won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1948 - This Is Your Life debuted on NBC radio. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio show for two years and for nine more (1952-1961) on television.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1955 - Harry Belafonte recorded Jamaica Farewell and Come Back Liza for RCA Victor. The two tunes completed the Calypso album which led to Belafonte’s nickname, ‘Calypso King’.
1961 - The Metropolitan Museum in New York obtained Rembrandt’s Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for $2.3 million. The Metropolitan raised the money from special contributions and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the museum.
1963 - Two passenger trains crashed into a derailed freight train near Yokohama, Japan. 162 people were killed. On the same day a coal dust explosion in Japan’s Mitsui Miike coal mine killed 458 miners and twice that number were permanently injured.
1964 - The Wizard of Id comic strip debuted. Its creators, artist Brant Parker and writer Johnny Hart, had been friends since they met in the 1950s at a high school art contest. The "Wizard of Id" is syndicated in more than 1,000 newspapers worldwide.
1965 - A huge blackout in the northeast U.S. left millions without electricity. 800,000 people wound up trapped in New York subways, elevators and skyscrapers. Rioting broke out in New York City. Dramatic photos showed the eery sight of a moonlit, electric lightless, Manhattan skyline. Power was not restored until the next morning.
1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone was published. John Lennon was on the cover. The magazine said it was not simply a music magazine but was also about “...the things and attitudes that music embraces.”
1970 - Former French president Charles De Gaulle died. He was 79 years old.
1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as illegitimate.
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing, five months after having retinal surgery on his left eye. (In 1984, Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a fight commentator for NBC.)
1984 - There was a big fight in the NBA. Larry Bird of Boston tangled with Dr. J (Julius Erving) at the old Boston Garden. The Celtics won the game 130-119, but the two players lost $7,500 each. They were not alone: 16 other players who joined in the melee paid a total of $15,500 in fines in a game that was more like professional wrestling than pro basketball.
1984 - Donna Reed joined the cast of Dallas as J.R. Ewing’s new mamma, on CBS-TV. This was Reed’s first return to television since her own successful show ended in 1966. However radiantly beautiful, Reed would not score well with viewers who had become attached to Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie. Reed was written out of the script and Bel Geddes returned in 1985.
1984 - Three Servicemen, a sculpture by Frederick Hart, was unveiled in Washington, DC. It was the final addition to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The statue faces the wall of names of more than 58,000 Americans who were either killed or reported missing in action during the Vietnam War.
1986 - Bobby Rahal won his first national auto racing driving title. He had earned $300,000 for six victories, including an Indy 500 win.
1989 - The 27.9-mile-long Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War that separated East and West Germany for 28 years, was opened. Both East and West German citizens celebrated their freedom as they once again were able to walk freely between the two states.
1991 - Singer, actor Yves Montand died near Paris at age 70. Montand starred in some 60 motion pictures during his career.
1993 - U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Ross Perot debated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on CNN’s Larry King Live.
1996 - Evander Holyfield joined Muhammad Ali, in making history as the second man to become the three-time World Heavyweight Champion. He accomplished this by defeating Mike Tyson at 37 seconds of the 11th round at the MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas.
1997 - Poet Anthony Hecht received the $100,000 1997 Tanning Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, for his Fight Among the Tombs: Poems. The 74-year-old Hecht’s other works include The Transparent Man, The Venetian Vespers and Millions of Strange Shadows. (Hecht died Oct 20, 2004.)
1997 - “The New Musical Adventure” The Scarlet Pimpernel opened at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. Based on the novel of the same name, the show is set in England and France during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The musical ran on Broadway from 1997 through January 2000 with a run of 772 performances.
1998 - A documentary special, Chihuly Over Venice, was the first high definition digital TV broadcast on PBS.
1999 - President Chandrika Kumaratunga said 4,000 people were driven from their homes in Sri Lanka by rebels. He also reported that the military had suffered 101 dead and 743 wounded.
2001 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Heist, starring Gene Hackman, Danny Devito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay and Patti Lupone; and Shallow Hal, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Rene Kirby, Susan Ward, Joe Viterelli, Jill Fitzgerald and Anthony J. Robbins.
2003 - Movie and TV great Art Carney died in Chester, CT at 85 years of age. He had been enormously popular as Jackie Gleason’s sewer-worker pal Ed Norton in the TV classic The Honeymooners. Carney also win the Best-Actor Oscar for Harry and Tonto (1974).
2004 - Actor Ed Kemmer died of a stroke at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. He was 83 years old. Kemmer played the heroic Commader Buzz Corry in the 1950s children’s sci-fi TV show Space Patrol. He went on to break out of that heroic mold by playing villains in episodes of Perry Mason, Gunsmoke and Maverick. Kemmer also spent 19 years as a regular on soaps, such as The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, All My Children and The Guiding Light.
2005 - Get Rich or Die Tryin’ opened across the U.S. The crima drama stars rapper 50 Cent, Viola Davis, Terrence Dashon Howard, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Bill Duke, Walter Alza, Benz Antoine, Arlene Duncan, Omar Benson Miller and Pedro Miguel Arce.
2005 - A gun battle between the Indonesian police and militants in East Java killed seven militants, including suspected Bali bombings mastermind Azahari Husin.
2006 - Ed Bradley, former CBS newsman and 60 Minutes journalist, died in New York City from complications of leukemia. He was 66 years old. Bradley started with CBS News in 1971 and was shipped to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War. He joined 60 Minutes in 1981. His distinctive body of work as a broadcast journalist was recognized with 20 Emmys and many other awards.
2006 - The UN ranked Norway, with its generous welfare state, as the best country to live in -- for a sixth consecutive year. The ranking rompted Norway’s aid minister Erik Solheim to tell Norwegians to stop whining about wanting more (Norwegians had complained of high taxes and of weaknesses in the welfare system).
2006 - The Nevada Supreme Court upheld tough Las Vegas city restrictions on lap dancing -- barring erotic dancers from raunchy physical contact with their customers.
2006 - Only three years after the original run closed, Les Misérables began a return to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Using the set, costumes, performers, and other resources from the recently closed third US national touring production, the production was only slightly altered. Minor changes included colourful projections blended into its existing lighting design, and a proscenium that extended out into the first two boxes on either side of the stage. The Les Misérables Broadway revival cast included Alexander Gemignani as Jean Valjean, Norm Lewis as Javert, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Fantine, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Éponine, Aaron Lazar as Enjolras, Adam Jacobs as Marius, Ali Ewoldt as Cosette, Gary Beach as Thénardier, Jenny Galloway as Madame Thénardier, Brian D’Addario and Jacob Levine and Skye Rainforth and Austyn Myers as Gavroche, James Chip Leonard as The Bishop of Digne, Drew Sarich as Grantaire, and Tess Adams and Kylie Liya Goldstein and Carly Rose Sonenclar as Young Cosette/Young Éponine. This Les Misérables revival didn’t last as long as the original run (1987-2003 with 6,680 performances), but still enjoyed a healthy run of 463 shows, closing on Jan 06, 2008.
2007 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Fred Claus, starring Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Elizabeth Banks, John Michael Higgins, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates and Kevin Spacey; Lions for Lambs, starring Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Pena and Derek Luke; and P2, with Grace Lynn Kung, Rachel Nichols, Simon Reynolds and Wes Bentley.
2007 - Finland announced a plan to raise the minimum age for buying guns from 15 to 18 years of age in the wake of a Nov 7 rampage by a teenage student that killed 7 people.
2008 - China announced a $586-billion stimulus package in its biggest move to fight the global financial crisis.
2008 - In a record bailout of a private company the U.S. Federal Reserve offered troubled insurance giant American International Group (AIG) a $150-billion financial package, including $40 billion for partial ownership in the company. The bailout figure had been revised upward from an $85-billion loan that the fed had initially proposed.
2010 - France’s Constitutional Council, the country’s constitutional watchdog, ruled that the bill raising the minimum retirement age in France to 62 was legal, marking a political victory for President Sarkozy.
2010 - Call of Duty: Black Ops, the $60 Activision Blizzard video game, was released and raked in a record $360 million in the first 24 hours.
2011 - J. Edgar debuted in the U.S. The bigraphical drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Dermot Mulroney, Ed Westwick, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Lucas, Lea Thompson, Kaitlyn Dever, Judi Dench, Stephen Root, Amanda Schull, Michael Rady, Ryan McPartlin and Kevin Rankin.
2011 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would not retreat from its nuclear program, but denying claims that it sought atomic weapons. Russia gave Iran a major boost, rejecting tighter sanctions despite a U.N. watchdog report detailing suspected arms-related advances.
2012 - New movies in the U.S.: The 23rd James Bond flick, Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, Helen McCrory, Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe, Ben Whishaw, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench, Tonia Sotiropoulou and Albert Finney; A Royal Affair, with Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Thomas W. Gabrielsson; LUV, starring Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan Good, Lonette McKee and Michael Kenneth Williams; Nature Calls, with Maura Tierney, Johnny Knoxville, Rob Riggle, Patton Oswalt, Patrice O’Neal and Darrell Hammond; and In Their Skin, starring Selma Blair, Joshua Close, James D’Arcy, Rachel Miner, Quinn Lord and Alex Ferris.
2012 - David Petraeus, the retired four-star general renowned for taking charge of the military campaigns in Iraq and then Afghanistan, abruptly resigned as director of the CIA, admitting to an extramarital affair. Petraeus had carried on the affair with his biographer, reserve Army officer Paula Broadwell.
2013 - The U.S. Navy christened a new aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), named for the 38th POTUS. The Gerald R. Ford will enter the U.S. fleet in 2016, replacing the inactive USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which ended her 51 years of active service in December 2012.
2013 - World powers held a third day of talks with Iran on its nuclear program. France’s foreign minister said Iran’s refusal to suspend work on a plutonium-producing reactor and downgrade its stockpile of higher-enriched uranium was standing in the way of an agreement to curb Tehran’s nuclear program -- in return for easing of U.N. sanctions.
2014 - New York City’s biggest subway hub opened in lower Manhattan. The $1.4-billion Fulton Center, a vital link to the new World Trade Center, accommodates up to 300,000 daily riders.
2014 - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin promised ever-closer cooperation as they met for the 10th time in less than two years. The pair signed agreements, including one to develop a second major route to supply the Chinese with Russian gas. After the meeting, Putin presented the president of the People’s Republic of China with a Russian smartphone, the YotaPhone 2.
2015 - The president of the University of Missouri system (Timothy M. Wolfe) and the head of its flagship campus (R. Bowen Loftin) resigned. This, after student complaints that the 4-college system was unresponsive to racial slurs and other slights.
2015 - A Chinese collector snapped up Modigliani’s Nu Couche or Reclining Nude, painted in 1917-18, for $170,405,000, setting a new world record price at auction for the Italian artist in a bumper Christie’s sale in New York City.
2016 - The U.S. dollar rose broadly against its major rivals as investors digested Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the presidential election. Trading was volatile throughout the morning, with major currency pairs seeing huge swings, though the trend for the dollar turned higher in the afternoon, tracking other markets like U.S. stocks, which also recovered early losses to advance. U.S. stock markets had plunged on election night with futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 506 points, or roughly 4%.
2016 - Thousands of people in around 10 U.S. cities rallied against president-elect Donald Trump. Protesters burned a giant orange-haired head of Trump in effigy, lit fires in the streets and blocked traffic as rage over the so-called billionaire’s election victory spilled onto the streets of Oakland, CA, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland and Washington DC.
2017 - Britain accused Russia of carrying out a “thinly veiled political attack” on the head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), escalating a row over the agency’s investigation into toxic attacks in Syria. And U.S. representative Kenneth Ward told delegates at a meeting of the OPCW’s 41-member executive council that they were fighting for the future of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the watchdog’s founding treaty.
2017 - A coalition of U.S. cities, companies and other groups announced that many in the U.S. remained committed to the 2015 Paris climate agreement despite plans by POTUS Trump to pull out. Called the We Are Still In coalition, the group set up a pavilion outside of the official United Nations climate change conference (COP23) venue, where countries were meeting to negotiate how the Paris Agreement would be implemented. Republicans and Democrats alike made up the We Are Still In coalition, which had more than one thousand CEOs, mayors, and governors in the U.S.
2018 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The animated Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch, featuring the voices of Angela Lansbury, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Cameron Seely and Pharrell Williams; The Girl in the Spider’s Web, with Claire Foy, Sylvia Hoeks and Lakeith Stanfield; Overlord, starring Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk and John Magaro; El Angel, with Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín and Daniel Fanego; Here and Now, starring Renée Zellweger, Sarah Jessica Parker and Taylor Kinney; Lez Bomb, with Cloris Leachman, Steve Guttenberg and Bruce Dern; The New Romantic, starring Sarah Armstrong, Daina Barbeau and Jessica Barden; Outlaw King, with Florence Pugh, Chris Pine and Aaron Taylor-Johnson; Postcards from London, starring Harris Dickinson, Jonah Hauer-King and Alessandro Cimadamore; and River Runs Red, with Taye Diggs, John Cusack and George Lopez.
2018 - A court in the Netherlands convicted 34 people for blocking a highway in 2017. The gang of 34 was trying to prevent anti-racism demonstrators from protesting at a festive parade featuring the Dutch version of Santa Claus and his helpers, called Black Petes. Those convicted were ordered to do unpaid community work and the ringleader was given a suspended one-month prison sentence. The court in the northern city of Leeuwarden said in a statement that by blocking the highway, they “took the law into their own hands” to infringe the protesters’ constitutional right to demonstrate.
2018 - Hundreds of thousands people evacuated as wildfires raged in the northern and southern California. Nine people were reported killed by the Camp Fire in Paradise and the rapidly spreading Woolsey Fire threatened the resort of Malibu, home to Hollywood stars.
2019 - India’s Supreme Court awarded a bitterly contested religious site to Hindus, dealing a defeat to Muslims who also claimed the land. The dispute had sparked some of the country‘s bloodiest riots since independence. The court ruling paved the way for the construction of a Hindu temple on the site in the northern town of Ayodhya. In 1992 a Hindu mob destroyed the 16th-century Babri Masjid on the site.
2019 - Australian authorities said two people had died, seven were missing and at least 150 homes had been destroyed as bushfires raged across eastern Australia.
2020 - Trump Attorney General William Barr “authorized” federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities. The action went against longstanding Justice Department policy not to investigate elections until their results were certified. There continued to be no evidence of any fraud.
2020 - The United States faced its first review in five years by the United Nation’s main human rights body. The detentions of migrant children and the killings of unarmed Black people during the Trump administration’s tenure were among issues looming high on reviewers minds.
2021 - Republican Senator Charles Grassley and Governor Kim Reynolds embraced Donald Trump’s return to Iowa. They even backed up the former POTUS as he repeated his false claims of voter fraud and a stolen election.
2021 - President Emmanuel Macron said France will launch a campaign promoting the worldwide abolition of the death penalty. It would be a showcase part of its rotating presidency of the European Union.
2022 - President Biden praised Democrats for avoiding a “red wave” in the midterm elections. Republicans are expected to get a narrow majority in the House, and still have a shot at winning a razor-thin majority in the Senate, but they had hoped to tap into voter anxiety over high inflation to demolish Democrats. “It was a good day, I think, for democracy,” Biden said. “Our democracy has been tested in recent years...” but “the American people have spoken and proven once again, that democracy is who we are.”
2022 - Archaeologists announced the discovery of the oldest decipherable sentence -- on an ivory comb: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” in 1,700 B.C. Canaanite script from Tel Lachish, Israel. “Nothing like this was found before. It’s not the royal inscription of a king... this is something very human. You’re immediately connected to this person who had this comb,” said Yosef Garfinkel, a professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2023 - Some 80,000 people fled northern Gaza through an evacuation corridor on this day, an Israeli official said, compared with 50,000 people the day before. Streams of people -- men, women, children, the elderly and disabled -- travelled miles on foot through the battered region.
2023 - U.S. officials were investigating reports of letters containing suspicious powder sent to public officials in California, Georgia, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Washington state. Most of the letters appeared to have targeted election offices. More than a dozen letters were reported -- and came against a backdrop of a tense political climate where election officials frequently face threats, harassment and disruptions around voting.
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Birthdays on This Day November 9
1801 - Gail Borden
archaeologist, inventor: developed a commercial method of condensing milk; newspaper owner, editor: created the famous slogan, “Remember the Alamo.”; died Jan 11, 18741802 - Elijah Lovejoy
minister, newspaper editor/publisher: St. Louis Observer; abolitionist; shot to death Nov 7, 1837 by pro-slavery mob as he sought to protect his newspaper’s newly delivered press1853 - Stanford White
architect: partner in architectural firm: McKim, Mead and White: NY’s Pennsylvania Station, old Madison Square Garden, Washington Arch, Players, Century and Metropolitan Clubs, Boston Public Library; shot to death June 25, 1906 by jealous husband of former mistress1871 - Marie Dressler
Academy Award-winning actress: Min and Bill [1930-31]; Anna Christie, Dinner at Eight; died July 28, 19341886 - Ed Wynn
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Ed Wynn Show [1949]; All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor; actor Keenan Wynn’s father; died June 19, 19661909 - Robert Douglas
actor: Centennial, The Woman I Love, The Young Philadelphians, Helen of Troy, The Prisoner of Zenda; died Jan 11, 19991914 - Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
actress: Algiers, White Cargo, Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl; died Jan 19, 20001915 - Sargent Shriver
U.S. public official: helped creat and and was first director of the Peace Corps; he helped craft many 1960s-era programs that are still cornerstones of U.S. efforts to combat poverty; brother-in-law of U.S. President John F. Kennedy; died Jan 18, 20111918 - Spiro T. Agnew
U.S. Vice President under Richard Nixon [1969-1973: resigned Oct 10, 1973]; Governor of Maryland [1967-1969]; died Sept 17, 19961922 - Dorothy Dandridge
actress: Island in the Sun, Carmen Jones; died Sep 8, 19651930 - Charlie Jones
attorney; sportscaster: NBC Sports football/golf; died Jun 12, 20081931 - Whitey Herzog
baseball: Washington Senators [1956–1958], Kansas City Athletics [1958–1960], Baltimore Orioles [1961–1962], Detroit Tigers [1963]; manager: Texas Rangers [1973], California Angels [1974], Kansas City Royals [1975–1979], St. Louis Cardinals [1980–1990]: 1982 World Series champs1934 - Carl Sagan
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Dragons of Eden [1978]; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Broca’s Brain, Cosmos; astronomer: “Billions and billions of stars...”; died Dec 20, 19961935 - Bob Gibson
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: St. Louis Cardinals [all-star: 1962, 1965-1970, 1972/World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968/Cy Young Award: 1968, 1970/Baseball Writers Award: 1968/N.L. MVP: 1968]; won seven straight World Series games; no-hitter against Pittsburgh: 1971; lifetime won/lost record 251-174; 2.91 ERA over 17 seasons; career strike-outs: 3,000; died Oct 2, 20201936 - Mary Travers
singer: Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane, Blowin’ in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon, I Dig Rock ’n’ Roll Music; solo: LP: No Easy Walk to Freedom; died Sep 16, 20091941 - Tom Fogerty
musician, songwriter, musician, songwriter, singer: group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary, Lookin’ Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend; solo: Goodbye Media Man, Lady of Fatima, Beauty is Under the Skin, Joyful Resurrection; died Sep 6, 19901942 - Tom Weiskopf
golf champ: British Open [1973]; shares individual record for lowest 18-hole total [63] in any round of the U.S. Open [6-12-1980]1944 - Phil May
singer; founding member of The Pretty Things: Rosalyn, Road Runner, Judgement Day, Midnight to Six Man, You Don’t Believe Me, Come See Me, L.S.D., Sun1947 - Robert David Hall
actor: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Starship Troopers, The Negotiator, The West Wing, L.A. Law, Tim Timebomb’s Rock’n’Roll Theatre; more1948 - Joe Bouchard
musician: bass, singer: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper; LPs: Agents, Revolution by Night1948 - Alan Gratzer
musician: drums: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Loving You, Take It on the Run1951 - Lou Ferrigno
bodybuilder: Mr. Universe; actor: The Incredible Hulk1954 - Dennis Stratton
musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Eddie the Head, Run to the Hills, Running Free; LPS: Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Power Slave, Somewhere in Time1959 - Mickey G. (Michael Wilkins)
actor [1994-2007] X-rated films: Stiffer Competition, The Art of Interracial Group Sex, Bangin’ the Bachelor, Payback: The Evolution of the Gangbang, Virtual Pleasure Ranch1964 - Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton
Grammy Award-winning rap singer: Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa: None of Your Business [1994]; actress: Oz, First-Time Felon1965 - Todd Gill
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, St. Louis Blues, San Jose Sharks, Phoenix Coyotes, Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Chicago Blackhawks1970 - Jordan Black
comedian, actor: The Wrong Hands, Miracle of Phil, For Your Consideration, They Call Him Sasquatch, Club Vampire1970 - Bill Guerin
hockey [right wing]: New Jersey Devils, Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars1970 - Susan Tedeschi
singer: Better Days, Just Won’t Burn, Wait for Me, Live from Austin, TX, The Best of Susan Tedeschi Episode One, Hope and Desire, Back to the River1971 - David Duval
golf champ: British Open [2002]; 13 PGA Tour victories1971 - Scott Sauerbeck
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Miami; MLB: Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians1972 - Eric Dane
actor: Grey’s Anatomy, Marley & Me, Valentine’s Day, Burlesque, Gideon’s Crossing Charmed1972 - Mark Fields
football [linebacker]: Washington State Univ; NFL: New Orleans Saints, St. Louis Rams, Carolina Panthers1973 - Alyson Court
actress: Haven, The Last Don II, Jerry and Tom, Lantern Hill, Rolling Vengeance, My Pet Monster, Pippi Longstocking1973 - Nick Lachey
singer: group: 98 Degrees: LP: 98 Degrees and Rising; films, TV: Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica [with then-wife Jessica Simpson], The Hard Easy, She Said, He Said, Big Morning Buzz Live; more1974 - Alessandro Del Piero
footballer [deep-lying forward]: Italian national team [1995-2008]: 2006 FIFA World Cup champs; more1978 - Sisqó (Mark Althavean Andrews)
rapper: group: Dru Hill; solo LPs: Unleash the Dragon, Return of Dragon, Last Dragon1979 - David Bush
baseball [pitcher]: Wake Forest Univ; MLB: Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers1979 - Cory Hardrict
actor: The Oath, Gran Torino, He’s Just Not That Into You, Lovelace, Warm Bodies, Lincoln Heights, 211, Walk of Fame, November Criminals, Naked Drill, Neighborhood Watch1980 - Vanessa Lachey
beauty pagent winner: Miss Teen USA [1998]; TV host: Total Request Live; actress: NCIS: Hawai’i1980 - Ben Rutledge
world/Olympic rower [Canada]: gold medal at 2008 Summer Olympics1981 - Scottie Thompson
actress: NCIS, Trauma, Star Trek, Deck the Halls, Lake Effects, Graceland, Trauma1984 - Delta Goodrem
songwriter, singer: LPs: Innocent Eyes, Mistaken Identity, Delta, Child of the Universe; actress: Santa’s Apprentice, North Shore, Neighbours, Hating Alison Ashley, Police Rescue, Hey Dad..!, A Country Practice; more1988 - Nikki Blonsky
singer, actress: Hairspray, Waiting for Forever, Queen Sized
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Hit Music on This Day November 9
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