| 1799 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte participates in a coup and declares himself dictator of France. |
| 1848 |
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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 |
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Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria. |
| 1906 |
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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. |
| 1914 |
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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 |
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Germany is proclaimed a republic as the kaiser abdicates and flees to the Netherlands. |
| 1935 |
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Japanese troops invade Shanghai, China. |
| 1938 |
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Nazis kill 35 Jews, arrest thousands and destroy Jewish synagogues, homes and stores throughout Germany. The event becomes known as Kristallnacht, the night of the shattered glass. |
| 1965 |
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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 |
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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 |
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NASA launches Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket. |
| 1972 |
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Bones discovered by the Leakeys push human origins back 1 million years. |
| 1983 |
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Alfred Heineken, beer brewer from Amsterdam, is kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million. |
| 1989 |
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The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years. |
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Born on November 9 |
| 1818 |
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Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (Fathers and Sons, A Month in the Country). |
| 1841 |
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Edward VII, King of England, who succeeded his mother Victoria in 1901. |
| 1853 |
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Stanford White, architect whose designs include Madison Square Garden and Washington Arch. |
| 1886 |
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Ed Wynn, actor and comedian. |
| 1918 |
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Spiro Agnew, vice president to Richard Nixon. |
| 1923 |
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James Schuyler, poet, novelist and playwright. |
| 1924 |
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Robert Frank, photographer. |
| 1928 |
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Anne Sexton, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. |
| 1934 |
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Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer. |
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