November 9, 1935 Pack Robert “Bob” Gibson, baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Despite a childhood filled with medical problems, Gibson was active in sports and won a basketball scholarship to Creighton University.
Archive | November 9, 2010
November 9th in African American History – Roger Arliner Young
November 9, 1964 Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology, died. Young was born in 1899 in Clifton Forge, Virginia and raised in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 1923 and her master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1926.