October 9 - Cold

Mommy Says It's Cold

...so I put on a sweatshirt.

This Day In History

1514

Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.

1604

Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

1701

The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1845

The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.

1873

A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

1919

Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.

1936

Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.

1986

The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

1989

An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.

1992

A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu

1999

The last flight of the SR-71.

2003

Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.

Famous Birthdays

1201

Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)

1704

Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)

1835

Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)

1840

Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)

1873

Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)

1900

Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)

1937

Brian Blessed, English actor

1943

Mike Peters, American cartoonist

1948

Jackson Browne, American musician

1953

Tony Shalhoub, American actor

1954

Scott Bakula, American actor

1958

Michael Pare, American actor
1964
Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1973
Steven Burns, American actor and musician