Today in History - History - November 9th

1925Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin

201145th Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins

1922Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)

2011Shakira is honoured as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year

1973Ringo Starr releases "Ringo" album

1946Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze

1923Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees

1965Willie Mays named NL MVP

1921Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini

1906Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama)

1941Tom Fogerty, Berkeley California, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), (d. 1990)

1980Vanessa Minnillo, Angeles City, Pampanga, Filipino-born American TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)

1731Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)

1936Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)

1929Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002)

1913Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)

1887Painter Grandma Moses (27) weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York

1968Former "Led Zepellin" lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson

1931Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer

1935"Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico

1968Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (26) divorces first wife Marlynn Myers after 4 years of marriage

1931Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage

2004Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50

1970Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79