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Historical Events
on November 9th
- Lead Story
- Nazis launch Kristallnacht,1938
- American Revolution
- Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina,1780
- Automotive
- Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company,1960
- Civil War
- Burnside assumes command,1862
- Cold War
- East Germany opens the Berlin Wall,1989
- Crime
- A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years,1971
- Disaster
- Fire rips through Boston,1872
- General Interest
- Roosevelt travels to Panama,1906
- Nazis suppressed in Munich,1923
- Sartre renounces communists,1956
- The Great Northeast Blackout,1965
- Hollywood
- Kodak Theatre, new home of Oscars, opens,2001
- Literary
- Poet Anne Sexton is born,1928
- Music
- Willie Nelson's assets are seized by the IRS,1990
- Old West
- Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile,1875
- Presidential
- Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines,1901
- Sports
- Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw,1946
- Vietnam War
- Antiwar protestor sets himself afire,1965
- Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam,1967
- Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War,1970
- World War I
- Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden ,1914
- World War II
- "The Night of Broken Glass",1938
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