Calendar for November 15th, 2009

2006: Sadie Hawkins Day

Died 1630: Johannes Kepler (astronomer)

Born 1738: Sir William Herschel (astronomer)

1806: Pikes Peak first sighted by Zebulon M. Pike

1849: First U.S. poultry show began, Boston, Massachusetts

Born 1849: James O'Neill (actor)

Born 1881: Franklin Pierce Adams (newspaper columnist)

Born 1882: Felix Frankfurter (U.S. Supreme Court justice)

Born 1887: Georgia O'Keeffe (painter)

Born 1887: Marianne Moore (poet)

1920: First meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations

Born 1929: Ed Asner (actor)

Born 1932: Petula Clark (singer)

1937: Sadie Hawkins Day debuted in Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip

Born 1940: Sam Waterston (actor)

Died 1954: Lionel Barrymore (actor)

Born 1957: Kevin Eubanks (musician & The Tonight Show bandleader)

Born 1972: Jonny Lee Miller (actor)

Died 1978: Margaret Mead (author)

Born 1988: Zena Grey (actress)

2006: A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck Japan