9 November 1809 Painter and engraver Paul Sandby died at his home in St George's Row, Bayswater. His work had done much to popularise the art of watercolour and the appreciation of landscape. 9 November 1841 Birth at Buckingham Palace of the future Edward VII.
He was the first heir born to a reigning British sovereign for 80 years and the last born with privy councillors present to confirm his identity. 9 November 1907 The Transvaal Government gives Edward VII the Cullinan Diamond, the world's largest known uncut diamond, as a 66th birthday present. 9 November 1938: Broken glass confirms Nazi brutality German Jews are brutalised in a night of rioting Few dates have such sinister resonance as 9 November 1938, the night Germans called ‘Kristallnacht’ – the night of broken glass.
To observers all over the world, the news of a government-backed pogrom against Germany’s Jewish population seemed the final confirmation of the Nazis’ barbarity. Even those who had urged appeasement of Adolf Hitler now changed their tune. “No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world,” said The Times , “could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenceless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday.
” The pretext for the riots was the murder of a German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, by a Polish Jew in Paris. Some historians suggest that the Nazis were itching for an excuse to seize the Jews’ financial assets; othe.
