0526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg

1861 Battle of Piketon, KY

1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

1864 The first export of goods from Burrard Inlet, B.C.on Canada's West Coast to a foreign country

1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox

1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston

1904 First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes

1913 a violent storm sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes

1914 HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser, Emden, at the Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean

1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272

1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I

1923 Beer Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow government in Germany

1927 Giant Panda discovered, China

1930 The first nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama

1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500

1938 "Kristallnacht" Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. 300,000 are arrested, 191 synagogues are destroyed, 7,500 shops are looted.

1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day

1939 Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes assassination when a bomb explodes in the historic Buergenbraeu Hall in Munich shortly after the Chancellor had left to return to Berlin.

1942 First 4,000 Lublin Jews are brought to be killed at the newly-organized camp at Majdanek, located outside Lublin.

1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union

1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws

1955 A Sikorsky HR2S helicopter, at Windsor Locks, Conn., carried a payload of 11,050 pounds to an altitude over 12,000 feet

1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m

1963 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan)

1965 5 16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (NY blackout)

1967 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module

1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins

1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 and injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)

1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa

1978 The U.S. Marine Corps' newest light attack aircraft, the AV-8B, flew for the first time at McDonnell Douglas Corporation in St. Louis. The AV-8B Harrier had more than double the payload and radius of its predecessor, the AV-8A.

1984 Sara Rodrigues, famous singer/songwriter was born! November 09 1984

1985 Gary Kasparov (USSR) becomes World Chess Champion at age of 22

1989 East Berlin opens its borders

1990 President Bush announces Doubling of US forces in Gulf

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