November 9
1620 - The passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod.
1888 - Jack the Ripper killed his final victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 - The 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.
1961 - U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert M. White became the first pilot to fly an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speed of sound.
1965 - A switch at a power station near Niagara Falls failed, causing the Northeast and parts of Canada to go dark for more than 13 hours.
1967 - A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
1970 - Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1976 - The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate".
1989 - Borders at East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day; within hours, tens of thousands of East and West Berliners swarmed the area for a boisterous celebration.
2000 - George W. Bush's lead over Al Gore in Florida slipped below 300 votes in a suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming "an injustice unparalleled in our history."
2001 - The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the northern alliance in the first major territorial advance of the rebels against the ruling Taliban.
2005 - Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds.
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.
2015 - Minimizing sharp differences, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed their commitment to seeking elusive Middle East peace during a White House meeting.
2015 - The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.
2018 - President Donald Trump issued an order to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally; the measure would be blocked by court challenges.
2019 - Germany marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall at a ceremony attended by leaders from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.
Birthdays
21 - Karol Sevilla (actress)
24 - MOMO (singer)
27 - Shelby Wulfert (actress)
32 - Analeigh Tipton (actress/model)
32 - Nikki Blonsky (actress)
33 - Olivia Marie (model)
33 - Emily Tyra (actress)
36 - Chris Lane (country singer)
36 - Delta Goodrem (singer)
40 - Vanessa Lachey (actress)
41 - Corey Smith (country singer)
43 - Barry Knox (country musician)
47 - Nick Lachey (singer)
48 - Eric Dane (actor)
49 - Jason Antoon (actor)
50 - Chris Jericho (professional wrestler)
56 - Pepa (rapper)
69 - Lou Ferrigno (actor)
72 - Robert David Hall (actor)
75 - Charlie Robinson (actor)
89 - Whitey Herzog (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 9
1896 - Nebraska defeated Kansas City Medics 6-4.
1901 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 51-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 16-6.
1912 - Nebraska defeated Doane 54-6.
1918 - Nebraska defeated Omaha Balloon 19-0.
1935 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 19-13.
1940 - #12 Nebraska defeated Cockeye 14-6.
1952 - Maurice "The Rocket" Richard became the NHL's leading scorer with his 325th career goal.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1957 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 13-0.
1961 - The PGA eliminated its "caucasians only" rule.
1963 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 23-9.
1968 - Kansas State defeated Nebraska 12-0.
1971 - The NHL awarded a new franchise to Atlanta.
1974 - #9 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 23-13.
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. (He would come out of retirement for one more fight in 1984 before becoming a boxing commentator for NBC.)
1985 - #3 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 49-0.
1991 - #11 Nebraska defeated Kansas 59-23.
1991 - Placekicker Roman Anderson of the University of Houston became the first player in NCAA history to surpass 400 points scored.
1996 - Evander Holyfield upsets Mike Tyson in an 11th round knock out in Las Vegas to regain the WBA heavyweight title; Holyfield joined Muhammad Ali as just the second boxer to win a heavyweight title three times.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeated Missouri 51-7.
2002 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 45-7.
2004 - Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young Award.
2010 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners won a 10th straight Gold Glove award, tying the American League record for Gold Gloves by an outfielder with Ken Griffey Jr. and Al Kaline.
2011 - Penn State fired longtime head football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
2013 - Nebraska defeated Michigan 17-13.
2015 - The World Anti-Doping Agency issues a report recommending that the 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.
1888 - Jack the Ripper killed his final victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 - The 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.
1961 - U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert M. White became the first pilot to fly an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speed of sound.
1965 - A switch at a power station near Niagara Falls failed, causing the Northeast and parts of Canada to go dark for more than 13 hours.
1967 - A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
1970 - Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1976 - The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate".
1989 - Borders at East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day; within hours, tens of thousands of East and West Berliners swarmed the area for a boisterous celebration.
2000 - George W. Bush's lead over Al Gore in Florida slipped below 300 votes in a suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming "an injustice unparalleled in our history."
2001 - The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the northern alliance in the first major territorial advance of the rebels against the ruling Taliban.
2005 - Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds.
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.
2015 - Minimizing sharp differences, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed their commitment to seeking elusive Middle East peace during a White House meeting.
2015 - The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.
2018 - President Donald Trump issued an order to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally; the measure would be blocked by court challenges.
2019 - Germany marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall at a ceremony attended by leaders from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.
Birthdays
21 - Karol Sevilla (actress)
24 - MOMO (singer)
27 - Shelby Wulfert (actress)
32 - Analeigh Tipton (actress/model)
32 - Nikki Blonsky (actress)
33 - Olivia Marie (model)
33 - Emily Tyra (actress)
36 - Chris Lane (country singer)
36 - Delta Goodrem (singer)
40 - Vanessa Lachey (actress)
41 - Corey Smith (country singer)
43 - Barry Knox (country musician)
47 - Nick Lachey (singer)
48 - Eric Dane (actor)
49 - Jason Antoon (actor)
50 - Chris Jericho (professional wrestler)
56 - Pepa (rapper)
69 - Lou Ferrigno (actor)
72 - Robert David Hall (actor)
75 - Charlie Robinson (actor)
89 - Whitey Herzog (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 9
1896 - Nebraska defeated Kansas City Medics 6-4.
1901 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 51-0.
1907 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 16-6.
1912 - Nebraska defeated Doane 54-6.
1918 - Nebraska defeated Omaha Balloon 19-0.
1935 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 19-13.
1940 - #12 Nebraska defeated Cockeye 14-6.
1952 - Maurice "The Rocket" Richard became the NHL's leading scorer with his 325th career goal.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1957 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 13-0.
1961 - The PGA eliminated its "caucasians only" rule.
1963 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 23-9.
1968 - Kansas State defeated Nebraska 12-0.
1971 - The NHL awarded a new franchise to Atlanta.
1974 - #9 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 23-13.
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. (He would come out of retirement for one more fight in 1984 before becoming a boxing commentator for NBC.)
1985 - #3 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 49-0.
1991 - #11 Nebraska defeated Kansas 59-23.
1991 - Placekicker Roman Anderson of the University of Houston became the first player in NCAA history to surpass 400 points scored.
1996 - Evander Holyfield upsets Mike Tyson in an 11th round knock out in Las Vegas to regain the WBA heavyweight title; Holyfield joined Muhammad Ali as just the second boxer to win a heavyweight title three times.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeated Missouri 51-7.
2002 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 45-7.
2004 - Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young Award.
2010 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners won a 10th straight Gold Glove award, tying the American League record for Gold Gloves by an outfielder with Ken Griffey Jr. and Al Kaline.
2011 - Penn State fired longtime head football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
2013 - Nebraska defeated Michigan 17-13.
2015 - The World Anti-Doping Agency issues a report recommending that the Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a "state-supported" doping program.
