On this day: November 9

POSTED: 07:01 PM PST Nov 08, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 08, 2012 

Pilgrims on the Mayflower spot land, Jack the Ripper kills for the last time, the PGA integrates, Rolling Stone magazine debuts, and the Berlin Wall begins to fall, all on this day.

OTD November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge
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20th Century Fox

1922: Actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge, the first African-American to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, which she earned for 1954's "Carmen Jones," is born in Cleveland, Ohio.

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