TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS FRIDAY, NOV. 9, the 313th day of 2018. There are 52 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues, as well as Jewishowned stores and houses in Germany and Austria, in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as “Kristallnacht.”
In 1620, the passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod.
In 1918, it was announced that Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate; he then fled to the Netherlands.
In 1965, the great Northeast blackout began as a series of power failures lasting up to 13½ hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.
In 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight. In 1970, former French President Charles de Gaulle died at age 79.
In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa.
In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
In 2000, George W. Bush’s lead over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a suspensefilled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our history.”
In 2007, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a day and rounded up thousands of her supporters to block a mass rally against his emergency rule.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Baseball Hallof-Famer Whitey Herzog is 87. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Bob Gibson is 83. Actor Lou Ferrigno is 67. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is 66. Actress Ion Overman and rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) are 49. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) and blues singer Susan Tedeschi are 48. Actor Eric Dane is 46. Singer Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) is 45. Country musician Barry Knox (Parmalee) is 41. Rhythmand-blues singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 40. Actress Emily Tyra is 31. Actress Nikki Blonsky and actress-model Analeigh Tipton are 30.