TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 9
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
1857 The “Atlantic Monthly” first appeared on newsstands and featured the first installment of “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1888 Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly.
1900 Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt leaves Washington, D.C., for a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official visit outside of the United States.
1918 Germany is proclaimed a republic as the kaiser abdicates and flees to the Netherlands.
1921 Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect” .
1923 In Munich, the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by German troops that were loyal to the democratic government. The event began the evening before when Adolf Hitler took control of a beer hall full of Bavarian government leaders at gunpoint.
1938 Nazis kill 35 Jews, arrest thousands and destroy Jewish synagogues, homes and stores throughout Germany. The event becomes known as Kristallnacht, the night of the shattered glass.
1965 Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old former seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker movement, immolates himself at the United Nations in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.
1965 A switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada went dark for more than 13 hours.
1967 Rolling Stone makes its debut. The magazine launched the careers of many famous authors and published the early versions of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
1979 The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages “without delay.” Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.
1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1983 Alfred Heineken, beer brewer from Amsterdam, is kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million.
1984 A bronze statue titled “Three Servicemen,” by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1989 The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years.
1995 Officials at the White House announced that there was no chance in reaching a decision in Congress regarding a certain spending bill. At the same time, Republicans were pushing to see the size of government reduced, and threat of government shutdown was in order.
1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing – largest civil settlement in US history
2002 Leon Boya, a U.S. citizen who lives a mere 500 yards from the U.S./Canadian border, marked his territory, by way of a simple declaration. Boya explained that it was possible for people to illegally cross the U.S. border, but in order to do so they “got to get by the neighbors.”
2005 Three suicide bombers carry out simultaneous attacks on three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims, and wounding hundreds of others
2011 Legendary Penn State football coach, Joe Paterno, was fired over a child abuse scandal involving his former assistant Jerry Sandusky. Paterno had been made aware of claims of sexual abuse against boys by Sandusky but had not contacted the police over the claims.
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