This day in history - November 9
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:29 am
1938 - Nazi thugs looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria on Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass."
1965 - A cascading power failure that began around 5 p.m. cut off most of New York City and millions of other residents of the Northeast and Ontario. Power was restored about 12 hours later.
It was not a significant event in history; but like many things that happen in New York City, it got enormous media attention.
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1967 - The Apollo 4 mission was launched. It was a Saturn V rocket with an unmanned Apollo capsule. It reached 11,000 miles into space, the farthest journey of an Apollo craft until that time.
1989 - The East German government officially ended its policy of isolation from the West. Throngs of East Germans, who had been prisoners in their own country, crossed the border. The Berlin Wall was demolished within days.
Though the USSR and Warsaw Pact had been crumbling for some time, no other moment in those years so strongly signified the end of the Iron Curtain.
Children who had not been born in 1989 are adults now, and the grim tension that divided Europe for over four decades is slipping into history.
- Jim
1965 - A cascading power failure that began around 5 p.m. cut off most of New York City and millions of other residents of the Northeast and Ontario. Power was restored about 12 hours later.
It was not a significant event in history; but like many things that happen in New York City, it got enormous media attention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_1965" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
1967 - The Apollo 4 mission was launched. It was a Saturn V rocket with an unmanned Apollo capsule. It reached 11,000 miles into space, the farthest journey of an Apollo craft until that time.
1989 - The East German government officially ended its policy of isolation from the West. Throngs of East Germans, who had been prisoners in their own country, crossed the border. The Berlin Wall was demolished within days.
Though the USSR and Warsaw Pact had been crumbling for some time, no other moment in those years so strongly signified the end of the Iron Curtain.
Children who had not been born in 1989 are adults now, and the grim tension that divided Europe for over four decades is slipping into history.
- Jim
