Today in History

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 9: Soprano Mary Morrison is 91. Baseball Hall-of-Fame manager Whitey Herzog is 86. Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson is 82. Lee Graziano, drummer with The American Breed, is 74.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 8: Actor Norman Lloyd ("St. Elsewhere") is 103. Actress Stephane Audran is 85. Actor Alain Delon is 82. Singer Bonnie Bramlett is 73. Guitarist Roy Wood, founder of Electric Light Orchestra, is 71.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 7: Evangelist Billy Graham is 99. Former federal NDP leader Audrey McLaughlin is 81. Actor Barry Newman is 79. Singer Johnny Rivers is 75. Former supermodel Jean Shrimpton is 75. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 74.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 6: Actress June Squibb is 88. Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 85. Singer Eugene Pitt of the Jive Five is 80. Singer P.J. Proby is 79. Singer Bill Henderson (Chilliwack) is 73. Actress Sally Field is 71.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 5: Actor Chris Robinson ("General Hospital") is 79. Actress Elke Summer is 77. Singer Art Garfunkel is 76. Singer Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits is 70. Basketball Hall of Fame centre Bill Walton is 65.

Today in History for Nov. 18: On this date: In 1095, Pope Urban II called 600 men to the Council of Clermont, where he asked Europe to recapture the Holy Land from the Turks. A vast crusading army was deployed.

Today in History for Nov. 17: On this date: In 1558, Queen Mary I, known as Bloody Mary, who tried to return Protestant Britain to Catholicism, died.

Today in History for Nov. 16: On this date: In 1686, Britain and France signed the Treaty of Neutrality governing possession in North America in the event of war in Europe.

Today in History for Nov. 15: On this date: In 1280, German theologian and music theorist Albertus Magnus died. Magnus taught famed philosopher Thomas Aquinas. In 1492, Christopher Columbus noted in his journal the use of tobacco among the Indians.

Today in History for Nov. 14: On this date: In 1606, "The Theatre of Neptune," a form of dramatic spectacle known as a masque, was performed by Frenchmen and Indians in barges and canoes on the waters off Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal, N.S.