November 9
1620 - The passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod.
1872 - A fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.
1888 - Jack the Ripper killed his final victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
1918 - It was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate; he then fled to the Netherlands.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 - Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) -- referring to broken glass on the streets.
1953 - Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.
1965 - A switch at a power station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada experienced a blackout lasting more than 13 hours and affecting more than 30 million people.
1970 - Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.”
1989 - Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.
2007 - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day, and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule.
2012 - Retired four-star Army Gen. David Petraeus abruptly resigned as CIA director after an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was revealed by an FBI investigation.
2016 - Democrat Hillary Clinton conceded the presidential election to Republican Donald Trump, telling supporters in New York that her defeat was “painful, and it will be for a long time.”
2018 - President Donald Trump issued an order to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally.
2020 - President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, injecting more uncertainty to a rocky transition period as Joe Biden prepared to assume the presidency.
Birthdays
24 - Karol Sevilla (actress)
25 - Zhao Lusi (actress)
34 - Arielle Reitsma (actress)
35 - Lio Tipton (actress/model)
35 - Nikki Blonsky (actress)
36 - Emily Tyra (actress)
39 - Chris Lane (actor)
39 - Delta Goodrem (singer)
43 - Vanessa Lachey (actress)
44 - Corey Smith (singer)
45 - Sisqo (singer)
50 - Nick Lachey (singer)
51 - Eric Dane (actor)
52 - Jason Antoon (actor)
53 - Chris Jericho (professional wrestler)
59 - Pepa (rapper)
72 - Lou Ferrigno (actor)
75 - Robert David Hall (actor)
92 - Whitey Herzog (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 9
1861 - The first documented Canadian football game took place at the University of Toronto.
1952 - Maurice "The Rocket" Richard became the NHL's leading goal scorer with his 325th career goal. He later sent the puck to Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1961 - The Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) eliminated its "caucasians only" rule.
1971 - The NHL announced that it had granted a franchise to Atlanta.
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. In 1984 Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a boxing commentator for NBC.
1985 - Russia's Garry Kasparov, at age 22, becomes the youngest ever World Chess Champion, with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov.
1991 - Roman Anderson (Houston Cougars) became the first player in NCAA history to surpass 400 points when he kicked a 32-yard field goal.
1996 - Evander Holyfield upsets Mike Tyson in an 11th round knockout in Las Vegas to regain the WBA heavyweight boxing title, becoming the second boxer, after Muhammad Ali, to win the heavyweight title on three different occasions.
2011 - After 46 seasons as Penn State’s head football coach and a record 409 victories, Joe Paterno was fired along with the university president, Graham Spanier, over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
2015 - World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a "state-supported" doping program.
1620 - The passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod.
1872 - A fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.
1888 - Jack the Ripper killed his final victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
1918 - It was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate; he then fled to the Netherlands.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 - Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) -- referring to broken glass on the streets.
1953 - Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.
1965 - A switch at a power station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada experienced a blackout lasting more than 13 hours and affecting more than 30 million people.
1970 - Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.”
1989 - Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.
2007 - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day, and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule.
2012 - Retired four-star Army Gen. David Petraeus abruptly resigned as CIA director after an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was revealed by an FBI investigation.
2016 - Democrat Hillary Clinton conceded the presidential election to Republican Donald Trump, telling supporters in New York that her defeat was “painful, and it will be for a long time.”
2018 - President Donald Trump issued an order to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally.
2020 - President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, injecting more uncertainty to a rocky transition period as Joe Biden prepared to assume the presidency.
Birthdays
24 - Karol Sevilla (actress)
25 - Zhao Lusi (actress)
34 - Arielle Reitsma (actress)
35 - Lio Tipton (actress/model)
35 - Nikki Blonsky (actress)
36 - Emily Tyra (actress)
39 - Chris Lane (actor)
39 - Delta Goodrem (singer)
43 - Vanessa Lachey (actress)
44 - Corey Smith (singer)
45 - Sisqo (singer)
50 - Nick Lachey (singer)
51 - Eric Dane (actor)
52 - Jason Antoon (actor)
53 - Chris Jericho (professional wrestler)
59 - Pepa (rapper)
72 - Lou Ferrigno (actor)
75 - Robert David Hall (actor)
92 - Whitey Herzog (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 9
1861 - The first documented Canadian football game took place at the University of Toronto.
1952 - Maurice "The Rocket" Richard became the NHL's leading goal scorer with his 325th career goal. He later sent the puck to Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1961 - The Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) eliminated its "caucasians only" rule.
1971 - The NHL announced that it had granted a franchise to Atlanta.
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. In 1984 Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a boxing commentator for NBC.
1985 - Russia's Garry Kasparov, at age 22, becomes the youngest ever World Chess Champion, with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov.
1991 - Roman Anderson (Houston Cougars) became the first player in NCAA history to surpass 400 points when he kicked a 32-yard field goal.
1996 - Evander Holyfield upsets Mike Tyson in an 11th round knockout in Las Vegas to regain the WBA heavyweight boxing title, becoming the second boxer, after Muhammad Ali, to win the heavyweight title on three different occasions.
2011 - After 46 seasons as Penn State’s head football coach and a record 409 victories, Joe Paterno was fired along with the university president, Graham Spanier, over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
2015 - World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a "state-supported" doping program.
