Today in history, Nov 9th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 9th!

1799	Napoleon Bonaparte participates in a coup and declares himself dictator of France.
1848	The first U.S. Post Office in California opens in San Francisco at Clay and Pike streets. At the time there are only about 15,000 European settlers living in the state.
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. President Roosevelt wearing a Panama hat, that he received while in Panama.
1914	The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney wrecks the German cruiser Emden, forcing her to beach on a reef on North Keeling Island in the Indian Ocean.
1918	Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1935	Japanese troops invade Shanghai, China.
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.”
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	Nine Northeastern states and parts of Canada go dark in the worst power failure in history, when a switch at a station near Niagara Falls fails.
1967	NASA launches Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
1970	Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1972	Bones discovered by the Leakeys push human origins back 1 million years.
1976	The United Nations General Assembly approved 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa.
1983	Alfred Heineken, beer brewer from Amsterdam, is kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million.
1989	The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years.
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.
2011	Penn State fired longtime head football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier over their handling of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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