Today is Saturday, Nov. 9, the 314th day of 2024. There are 52 days left in the year.
On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades. In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad of any sitting president in order to observe construction of the Panama Canal.
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Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization. In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as thousands of Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom or deliberate persecution that became known as “Kristallnacht.” In 1965, the great Northeast blackout began with a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours, leaving 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.
In 1976, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, inc.
