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Posted by Don Fitzgerald on 11/9/2009, 6:50 am
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1918 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1935 United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass."
1953 Author-poet Dylan Thomas died at age 39.
1970 Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1976 The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."
1989 Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
2001 The northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif fell to the northern alliance in the first major territorial advance for the rebels against the ruling Taliban.
2004 Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award.
2005 Three suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60 victims and wounding hundreds.
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