Today in History for 9th November 2021

Historical Events

1330 - Battle of Posada, Wallachian voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1941 - Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen and Bishop of Münster
1953 - Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1976 - UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
2004 - 38th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride and Keith Urban wins

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Famous Birthdays

1799 - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1877)
1810 - Thomas Bragg, American politician, 34th Governor of North Carolina (1859-61), born in Warrenton, North Carolina (d. 1872)
1907 - Burrill Phillips, American composer (Play Ball), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1988)
1929 - Severn Darden, American actor (Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1995)
1944 - Phil May, English rocker (Pretty Things), born in Dartford, Kent (d. 2020)
1963 - Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player, born in Grosseto, Italy

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Famous Deaths

1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire [Kostrowitsky], French poet (Alcools) and art critic (coined the term 'Cubism'), dies during the Spanish Flu pandemic at 38
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman and Zionist leader (1st President of Israel 1949-52), dies at 77
1977 - Fred Haney, American baseball player, dies at 81
1993 - Stanley Myers, English movie composer (The Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
2011 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), dies at 89

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