This Day In History

November 9th

1906  US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US President to make a foreign trip to Panama on the Louisiana Battleship.
1965  The greatest power failure in history occurs when all of New York State and some of seven neighboring states, and parts of eastern Canada due to transmission line failure near Ontario, Canada.
1989  East & West Germany reunite and the opening of the Berlin Wall begins

1913  Actress Hedy Lamarr (born as Hedwig Kiessler)
1918  US Vice President under Nixon Spiro T. (Theodore) Agnew
1934  Astronomer & Author Carl Sagan
1941  Musician Tom Fogerty
1951  Body Builder & Actor Lou Ferrigno (born hearing impaired)

1959

• Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

• Lonely Street - Andy Williams

• Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat - Paul Evans

• Country Girl - Faron Young

1967

• To Sir with Love - Lulu

• Soul Man - Sam and Dave

• It Must be Him - Vikki Carr

• You Mean the World to Me - David Houston

1975

• Island Girl - Elton John

• Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles

• Who Loves You - Four Seasons

• I'm Sorry - John Denver

1983

• All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie

• Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

• Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

• Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton

1960

• Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters

• Poetry in Motion - Johnny Tillotson

• Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles

• Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968

• Hey Jude - The Beatles

• Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin

• Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots

• Next in Line - Conway Twitty

1976

• Rock'n Me - Steve Miller

• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

• Love So Right - Bee Gees

• Cherokee Maiden - Merle Haggard

1984

• Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean

• Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution

• Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!

• City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson

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