November 9 - This day in History

November 9: General Interest
1938: Nazis launch Kristallnacht

On this day in 1938, in an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust, German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes... read more


American Revolution
1780 : Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sumter-evades-wemyss-in-south-carolina


Automotive
1960 : Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robert-mcnamara-becomes-president-of-ford-motor-company


Civil War
1862 : Burnside assumes command of the Union Army of the Potomac
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/burnside-assumes-command


Cold War
1989 : East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/east-germany-opens-the-berlin-wall


Crime
1971 : A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-sunday-school-teacher-murders-his-family-and-goes-undercover-for-18-years


General Interest
1906 : Roosevelt travels to Panama
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-travels-to-panama

1923 : Nazis suppressed in Munich
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nazis-suppressed-in-munich

1956 : Sartre renounces communists
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sartre-renounces-communists

1965 : The Great Northeast Blackout
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-northeast-blackout


Hollywood
2001 : Kodak Theatre, new home of Oscars, opens
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kodak-theatre-new-home-of-oscars-opens


Literary
2004 : Best-selling Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson dies at 50
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/best-selling-millennium-trilogy-author-stieg-larsson-dies-at-50


Music
1990 : Willie Nelson's assets are seized by the IRS
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/willie-nelson39s-assets-are-seized-by-the-irs


Old West
1875 : Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/followers-of-sitting-bull-and-crazy-horse-identified-as-hostile


Presidential
1901 : Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/teddy-roosevelt-establishes-a-naval-base-in-the-philippines


Sports
1946 : Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/army-and-notre-dame-fight-to-a-draw


Vietnam War
1965 : Antiwar protestor sets himself afire
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/antiwar-protestor-sets-himself-afire

1967 : Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-lance-sijan-shot-down-over-north-vietnam

1970 : Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/supreme-court-refuses-to-rule-on-legality-of-vietnam-war


World War I
1914 : Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/australian-warship-sydney-sinks-german-emden


World War II
1938 : "The Night of Broken Glass"
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-night-of-broken-glass