11-09-2004, 12:57 AM
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November 9th
1541 ~ Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.
1731 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Banneker, American scientist.
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1918 ~ Germany is proclaimed a Republic. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and choose to live in exile in the Netherlands as a result of the German Revolution.
1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer.
1938 ~ Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, began.
1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, British poet and author
1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician.
1989 ~ Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall and allowed its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time since 1961.
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