November 9 - Cold Day

Cold Day

This Day In History

1620

Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1791

Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

1861

The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.

1907

The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

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.

1967

NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

1979

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.

1989

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.

1994

The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.

Famous Birthdays

1664

Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)

1719

Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)

1731

Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer, scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (d. 1806)

1801

Gail Borden, American inventor, surveyor, and publisher (inventor of condensed milk) (d. 1874)

1841

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)

1853

Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)

1880

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)

1913

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)

1934

Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)

1936

Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) (d. 2009)

1962

Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
1965
Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone