April 9



It's April 9th.

It is the 99th day of the year (100th in Leap Years)

It is National Unicorn Day.

On this day in 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of an audible human voice.


In 1969 - Bob Dylan releases (his 9th studio album) "Nashville Skyline"

In 1978 - Rainbow releases "Long Live Rock-n-Roll"


In 1982 - A Flock of Seagulls releases it's self-titled debut.


In 1984 - R.E.M. releases "Reckoning"


In 1994 - Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched.


Birthdays:

Gerard Way

David Gordon Green


Megan Connolly
as Kathleen in "The Crossing"


Barnady Kay
as SWAT Team leader in "The Man Who Knew Too Little"


Cynthia Nixon
as Amy Hertz in "I Am The Cheese"
as Una in "Stray Dolls"

Mark Pellegrino
as Allen Patumbo in "Night Life"


Ihor Podolchak


John Eaves


Mark Kelly


Yamina Benguigui
"The Glass Ceiling" on Kanopy via Richmond Public Library.

John Howard


Tony Cragg
"Bent of Mind"


Patty Pravo


Steve Gadd



Hannah Gordon
as Zaylo in "Out of the Unknown" Episode 1 "No Place Like Earth"

Micheal Learned
as Governor Andrea Stannard in "Power"


Marty Krofft


Drew Shafer

Jerzy Maksymiuk


Avery Schreiber
as Max Jordon in "The Monitors"

as Sergeant Manny Ruggin in "Silent Scream"


Gian Maria Volonté
as El Chuncho Munoz in "A Bullet For the General"
as Giordano Bruno

as Bartolomeo Vanzetti in "Sacco y Vanzetti"
as Vogel in "Le Cercle Rouge"


René Burri


Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Michel Poiccard in "Breathless"

as Pierrot in


Carl Perkins



Tom Lehrer


Art Kane



Brad Dexter
as Sergeant Bleeker in "None But the Brave"


Julian Dash


Victor Vasarely



Sharkey Bonano


Ward Bond
as Detective Tom Polhaus in "The Maltese Falcon"


Paul Willis

Michel Simon
as Professor Abel in "The Head"


Eadweard Muybridge



Charles Baudelaire
"The Flowers of Evil"

"Flowers of Evil" Read by Various | Full Audio Book

Theobald Boehm


Georg Matthias Monn


Johann Caspar Kerll

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