Basketball Coach Ed Cooley

Events in 1969 and 10-9

Events in US in the birth year of Ed Cooley

• Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).
• Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement (June 28).
• Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass. (July 18) in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence (July 25). Background: Timeline of Kennedy tragedies
• Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., —take first walk on the Moon (July 20).

Birthday Ed Cooley (10-9) in history

• Day 10-9 year 1813: Commander Oliver Hazard Perry delivered his famous message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after defeating the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
• Day 10-9 year 1846: Massachusetts inventor Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.
• Day 10-9 year 1939: Canada declared war on Germany, entering WWII.
• Day 10-9 year 1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace.
• Day 10-9 year 1988: Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S. Open women's final.
• Day 10-9 year 2002: Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.