Today in History

[Cory the Otter]

Share Events in the past that happened today!  Be sure to have a minimum of the event, its repercussions and one picture (or painting).

Today, on November 9th, 1938, Ernst von Rath died from the gunshot wounds inflicted on him by Jewish Resistance Fighter Herschel Grynszpan.  His assassination was used as an excuse to start Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, where Jews were attacked, synagogues were destroyed, homes were burned, businesses were looted, and people were killed.

[Yustax]

Nov 9th, 1888.

Mary Jane Kelly, a 25 year old hooker, falls victim to Jack the Ripper. Mary's face had been mutilated; her breasts had been removed and she had been disemboweled. Her various internal organs were scattered about.

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694, november 9th.

Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

[VonMudra]

November 9th, 1989, the Fall of the Berlin Wall.


Durp. 

[Fuchs]

November 9th, 2010, 2 months after my birthday.

[Ts4EVER]

November 9th, 2010, 2 months after my birthday.

The day all hope was lost.

[Fuchs]

Wasn't that in the year I was born? Or is it even worse now because I can legally drive a car?

[KurtisMayer]

10th November 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas!

[THeTA0123]

10 november 1944

The ammunition ship USS mount hood explodes at seeadler harbor at manus island

Mount Hood, anchored in about 35 feet (11 m) of water,[1] had exploded with an estimated 3,800 tons of ordnance material on board.The initial explosion caused flame and smoke to shoot up from amidships to more than masthead height

[Kelmola]

Delicious copypasta from Wikipedia front page, hurr durr.

[siben]

Well, yeah, what do you expect, people to actually remember all these things? Or use like a book to find things out?

Go back to the year 2000 my friend.

Here is one:
November 10, 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

[THeTA0123]

Delicious copypasta from Wikipedia front page, hurr durr.

and?

Well, yeah, what do you expect, people to actually remember all these things? Or use like a book to find things out?

Go back to the year 2000 my friend.

+1

[Fuchs]

Ehm yeah, some people would really improve with books.

[MaJ.P.Bouras]

10th of november 1938

Kemal Ataturk died

[Zoologic]

10th November 1945 the day of the battle of Surabaya, when British forces attacked the city and retake much part of it. Later after fighting ferociously for 3 weeks, they found out that their opposing force were not just a "gang of collaborators", the British then supported their independence.

Today it is remembered as "heroes day", akin to veteran's day in British Commonwealths.