Time Will Tell: November 9th

Friday, November 09, 2012

November 9th

November 9 is the 314th day of the year. There are 52 days remaining until the end of the year.

1907 The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. Just a reminder–there are only a few more shopping days until Crashmas, but I would prefer the diamond-hard Culligan Man!

1927 Giant panda is discovered in China. Really? Billions of people have lived in China for thousands of years and no one ever saw a big black and white bear before?

1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms

1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball is exempt from anti-trust laws

1961 PGA eliminates “caucasians only” rule which is mighty white of them

1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in northeast North America means there’s a whole lotta f@#$ing going on.

1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery and creates quite the scene

1971 David Storey's "Changing Room" premieres in London

1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") is erected, but you really can't tell since they're wearing baggy pants

1989 Steel Magnolias has its west coast premiere.

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.

1990 Dances with Wolves, a confusing love story without any dancing, premieres

1993 Stari Most, the "old bridge" in Mostar, Bosnia built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.

1997 "Scarlet Pimpernel" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City

2010 Needle-dicked Michigan assistant attorney general, Andrew Shisvell, is fired after targeting and defaming openly gay Chris Armstrong, University of Michigan student body president.