Notable Birthdays for November 9
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) - Black farmer, landowner and astronomer.
Gail Borden (1801-1874) - Inventor of condensed milk.
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Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833-1916) - Nurse who was the only woman ever commissioned in Confederate Army.
Stanford White (1853-1906) - Co-founder of McKim, Mead & White.
Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948) - Author of the book The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916).
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Florence R. Sabin (1871-1953) - First woman graduate from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Ed Wynn (1886-1966) - Host and actor on the radio show The Fire Chief.
Louisa E. Rhine (1891-1983) - Parapsychologist who was considered the First Lady of Parapsychology.
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Martha Settle Putney (1916-2008) - One of the Black members of the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
Florence Chadwick (1918-1995) - First woman to swim across the English Channel...both ways.
Byron De La Beckwith (1920-Still Living) - Person who assassinated Black activist Medgar Evers.
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Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965) - First Black actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Alice Coachman (1923-2014) - Olympic high jump gold medalist.
Ed Corney (1933-2019) - Professional bodybuilder.
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Mary Travers (1936-2009) - Singer and member of the band Peter, Paul and Mary.
Tom Fogerty (1941-1990) - Guitarist and member of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Tom Weiskopf (1942-2022) - Winner of 16 PGA titles.
Charlie Robinson (1945-2021) - Actor best known as Mac on the sitcom Night Court.
Joe Bouchard (1948-Still Living) - Bass player for the rock band Blue Oyster Cult.
Bob Cassilly (1949-2011) - Artist founder of the St. Louis City Museum.
Lou Ferrigno (1951-Still Living) - American bodybuilder and actor known as the Incredible Hulk.
Nikki Blonsky (1988-Still Living) - Actress who played Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray.
Memorable Events for November 9
1620 - The Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod) after two months at sea.
1821 -The first pharmacy college holds the its first class in Philadelphia.
1842 - George Bruce receives a design patent for typefaces and borders.
1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist Calvin Fairbank from Indiana and transport him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping slaves.
1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders barring Jews from serving under him.
1887 - The U.S. receives the rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1906- President Roosevelt makes the first an official trip outside the country (Panama Canal).
1936 - Fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan and brings the cub back the the U.S.
1943 - The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House.
1960 - Robert McNamara becomes the first President for the Ford Motor Company that is not a member of the Ford family.
1961 - The PGA eliminates the "whites only" only rule.
1970 - The Supreme Court votes 6–3 against allowing Massachusetts to enforce a law granting residents the right to refuse military service.
1984 - The iconic 3 Servicemen Vietnam Veterans Memorial is completed.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge orders 37 U.S. brokerage firms to pay $1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors for price fixing.
2023 - Surgeons at NYU announce they have successfully completed the first eye transplant.
